A new type of pictorial database: The Bicolor Affective Silhouettes and Shapes (BASS)

Autor(en)
Claudia Kawai, Gáspár Lukács, Ulrich Ansorge
Abstrakt

We introduce the Bicolor Affective Silhouettes and Shapes (BASS): a set of 583 normed black-and-white silhouette images that is freely available via . Valence and arousal ratings were obtained for each image from US residents as a Western population (n = 777) and Chinese residents as an Asian population (n = 869). Importantly, the ratings demonstrate that, notwithstanding their visual simplicity, the images represent a wide range of affective content (from very negative to very positive, and from very calm to very intense). In addition, speaking to their cultural neutrality, the valence ratings correlated very highly between US and Chinese ratings. Arousal ratings were less consistent between the two samples, with larger discrepancies in the older age groups inviting further investigation. Due to their simplistic and abstract nature, our silhouette images may be useful for intercultural studies, color and shape perception research, and online stimulus presentation in particular. We demonstrate the versatility of the BASS by an example online experiment.

Organisation(en)
Institut für Psychologie der Kognition, Emotion und Methoden
Journal
Behavior Research Methods
Band
53
Seiten
2558–2575
Anzahl der Seiten
18
ISSN
1554-351X
DOI
https://doi.org/10.3758/s13428-021-01569-7
Publikationsdatum
12-2021
Peer-reviewed
Ja
ÖFOS 2012
501006 Experimentalpsychologie
Schlagwörter
ASJC Scopus Sachgebiete
Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Psychology(all), Developmental and Educational Psychology, Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous), Psychology (miscellaneous)
Link zum Portal
https://ucris.univie.ac.at/portal/de/publications/a-new-type-of-pictorial-database-the-bicolor-affective-silhouettes-and-shapes-bass(a36a4d25-ce4a-46be-8f0c-8c029c5cdfe4).html