Creation and Validation of the Picture-Set of Young Children’s Affective Facial Expressions (PSYCAFE) - dataset

PSYCAFE represents a newly developed picture-set of children’s faces. It
includes reference portraits of girls and boys aged 4 to 6 years averaged
digitally from different individual pictures, that were categorized to six
basic affects (fear, disgust, happiness, sadness, anger and surprise) plus a
neutral facial expression by cluster analysis. This procedure led to
deindividualized and affect prototypical portraits. Individual affect
expressive portraits of adults from an already validated picture-set (KDEF)
were used in a similar way to create affect prototypical images also of adults.
The stimulus set has been validated on human observers and entail emotion
recognition accuracy rates and scores for intensity, authenticity and
likeability ratings of the specific affect displayed