The NimStim set of facial expressions: judgments from untrained research participants.

By Nim Tottenham, James W. Tanaka, A. Leon, Thomas McCarry, Marcella Nurse, Todd A. Hare, D. Marcus, Alissa Westerlund, BJ Casey, C. Nelson. Psychiatry Research, 2009

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Subfields: Cognitive Neuroscience, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology

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Recognition of Facial Expressions of Emotion is Related to their Frequency in Everyday Life (2014, result): “This evidence is shown by both laboratory experiments (e.g., Calder et al. 2000; Calvo and Lundqvist 2008; Calvo and Nummenmaa 2009; Leppänen and Hietanen 2004; Loughead et al. 2008; Milders et al. 2008; Palermo and Coltheart 2004; Svärd et al. 2012; Tottenham et al. 2009) and cross-cultural judgmen”
Measuring Attentional Bias to Threat: Reliability of Dot Probe and Eye Movement Indices (2014, methodology): “Stimuli The stimuli for the dot probe task comprised images of 32 actors (15 female, 17 male) selected from the NimStim Face Stimulus Set (Tottenham et al. 2009).”
Where the division lies: Common ingroup identity moderates the cross-race facial-recognition effect (2010, background): “Individuals are more accurate at recognizing types of faces with which they have had more exposure ( Sporer, 2001 ).”
Social and monetary reward learning engage overlapping neural substrates. (2012, background): “In the social condition, reward outcomes were color photographs of unfamiliar faces from the NimStim collection (Tottenham et al., 2009) showing either an angry (negative outcome), neutral (neutral outcome) or happy (positive outcome) emotional expression, presented together with emotionally…”
Long-term musical group interaction has a positive influence on empathy in children (2013, methodology): “After each clip, the child was presented with pictures of six different facial expressions (obtained with permission from the NimStim set (Tottenham et al., 2009)) and were instructed to select the facial expression that best described how he or she felt when watching the clip.”
When time slows down: The influence of threat on time perception in anxiety (2010, methodology): “Stimuli were taken from the NimStim faces data set (Tottenham et al., 2009).”
How We've Taught Algorithms to See Identity: Constructing Race and Gender in Image Databases for Facial Analysis (2020, background): “We further illustrate the observed source material and annotation documentation in our database corpus in the following sections.”
Individuation Motivation and Face Experience Can Operate Jointly to Produce the Own-Race Bias (2012, methodology): “The images were taken from the Montreal Set of Facial Displays of Emotion (MSFDE) (Beaupré & Hess, 2005) and NIMSTIM (Tottenham et al., 2009) databases.”
Different Neural Mechanisms within Occipitotemporal Cortex Underlie Repetition Suppression across Same and Different-Size Faces (2012, neutral): “Color photographs of unfamiliar faces were obtained from various sources, including the NimStim Face Stimulus Set (Tottenham et al. 2009) http://www.macbrain.org/resources.htm (date last accessed 8 March 2012), the Karolinska Directed Emotional Faces (KDEF) image set (Lundqvist and Litton 1998)…”
The role of prefrontal cortex in cognitive control and executive function (2021, background): “The faces included in the emotional n-back illustration are taken from the NimStim set of models who have granted permission to publish their images in scientific journals [246].”
Eye tracking of attention in the affective disorders: a meta-analytic review and synthesis. (2012, methodology): “All facial expressions from the NimStim Face Stimulus Set (Tottenham et al., 2009).”
The Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development (ABCD) study: Imaging acquisition across 21 sites (2018, neutral): “stimulus set (Tottenham et al., 2009) and the Racially Diverse Affective Expressions (RADIATE) set of stimuli (Conley et al.”
The Chicago face database: A free stimulus set of faces and norming data (2015, background): “Faces in NimStim, for instance, have been validated for their emotional expressions by a sample of undergraduate participants.”
Reliability of two versions of the dot-probe task using photographic faces (2009, methodology): “For all trials, angry, happy and neutral faces taken from the NimStim Face Stimulus Set (Tottenham et al., 2009) were used.”
Children’s Interpretation of Facial Expressions: The Long Path from Valence-Based to Specific Discrete Categories (2013, background): “…“basic emotions” (happiness, sadness, anger, fear, surprise, disgust, and sometimes contempt) (e.g., Pictures of Facial Affect: Ekman & Friesen, 1976; NimStim Set of Facial Expressions: Tottenham et al., 2008; Amsterdam Dynamic Facial Expression Set: van der Schalk, Hawk, Fischer, & Doosje, 2011).”