The Geneva Faces and Voices (GEFAV) database

Article Article scientifique Article The Geneva Faces and Voices (GEFAV) database eng 2015 author Ferdenzi Camille author Delplanque Sylvain 0000-0002-9025-4754 634389 author Mehu-Blantar Inès 741072 author Da Paz Cabral Katharin Mylena 561528 author Domingos Felicio Marisa 727347 author Sander David 558712 1110-1121 10.3758/s13428-014-0545-0 25511208 0743-3808 Although many facial and vocal databases are available for research, very few of them have controlled the range of attractiveness of the stimuli that they offer. To fill this gap, we created the GEneva Faces and Voices (GEFAV) database, providing standardized faces (static and dynamic neutral, smiling) and voices (speaking sentences, vowels) of young European adults. A total of 61 women and 50 men 18-35 years old agreed to be part of the GEFAV stimuli, and two rating studies involving 285 participants provided evaluations of the facial and vocal samples. The final set of stimuli was satisfactory in terms of attractiveness range (wide and rather symmetrical distribution over the attractiveness continuum) and the reliability of the ratings (high consistency between the two rating studies, high interrater agreement in the final rating study). Moreover, the database showed an adequate validity, since a series of findings described by earlier research on human attractiveness were confirmed-namely, that facial and vocal attractiveness are predicted by femininity and health in women, and by masculinity, dominance, and trustworthiness in men. In future studies, the GEFAV stimuli may be used intact or transformed, individually or in multimodal combinations, to investigate a wide range of mechanisms, such as the behavioral, neuropsychological, and neurophysiological processes involved in social cognition. Attractiveness Database Faces Mate choice Social cognition Voices Dewey 128.37 Dewey 150 15 Centre interfacultaire en sciences affectives 0D8 108 Section de psychologie 71 false 1241 Affective sciences 593 Emergence et expression de l'émotion (E3 Lab) Behavior research methods, instruments, & computers 47 4 9a339205-1fa5-4a24-a598-30ae1c50302a Article (Published version) Restricted art_10.3758_s13428-014-0545-0.pdf 321878 application/pdf restrictedAccess Centres et instituts / Centre interfacultaire en sciences affectives Faculté de psychologie et des sciences de l'éducation / Section de psychologie

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The Geneva Faces and Voices (GEFAV) database	Behavior research methods, instruments, & computers	2015	616	2
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