Revision of the Chinese Facial Affective Picture System

Objective:To extend the native Chinese Facial Affective Picture System to provide materials for further research on emotion.Methods:The experiments used convenience sampling.One hundred students from the acting and directing department of two art colleges in Beijing were selected as the expresser.And 100 students were recruited from two colleges in Beijing as the raters.Seven types of facial expression pictures including anger,disgust,fearful,sadness,surprised,happy and peaceful were collected from expressers.Then,the type was judged and the pictures were assessed with a 9-point scale by college student raters.The experiment 1 was to expand all emotional types of pictures on the basis of Chinese facial expression materials that produced by our group.One hundred students from the drama club of three colleges in Beijing were selected as the expresser.And each of 10 elderly and children expresser was selected from a community of Beijing.Then,another 100 students were recruited from two colleges in Beijing as the raters.Experiment 2 further expanded the number of negative pictures(such as anger,disgust,fear,sadness)and added some pictures of other age groups.Results:Totally 870 representative facial expression pictures of 7 emotion types were obtained with an identity rate and intensity point for each picture including 74 anger faces,47 disgust faces,64 fear faces,95 sadness faces,120 surprise faces,248 happiness faces and 222 neutral facial expressions.Conclusion:The present study has established the reliable Chinese Facial Affective Picture System.The facial expression pictures in our system are representative materials for emotion research in the future.It requires further study to improve the native facial expression system.