Filliter Jillian H, Glover Jacqueline M, McMullen Patricia A, Salmon Joshua P, Johnson Shannon A
Department of Psychology and Neuroscience, Dalhousie University, 1355 Oxford Street, Halifax, Nova Scotia, B3H 4R2, Canada.
Behav Res Methods. 2016 Mar;48(1):178-83. doi: 10.3758/s13428-015-0561-8.
Houses have often been used as comparison stimuli in face-processing studies because of the many attributes they share with faces (e.g., distinct members of a basic category, consistent internal features, mono-orientation, and relative familiarity). Despite this, no large, well-controlled databases of photographs of houses that have been developed for research use currently exist. To address this gap, we photographed 100 houses and carefully edited these images. We then asked 41 undergraduate students (18 to 31 years of age) to rate each house on three dimensions: typicality, likeability, and face-likeness. The ratings had a high degree of face validity, and analyses revealed a significant positive correlation between typicality and likeability. We anticipate that this stimulus set (i.e., the DalHouses) and the associated ratings will prove useful to face-processing researchers by minimizing the effort required to acquire stimuli and allowing for easier replication and extension of studies. The photographs of all 100 houses and their ratings data can be obtained at http://dx.doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.1279430.
在面部处理研究中，房屋常被用作比较刺激物，因为它们与面部有许多共同特征（例如，基本类别中的不同成员、一致的内部特征、单一方向和相对熟悉度）。尽管如此，目前还没有为研究用途而开发的大型、严格控制的房屋照片数据库。为了填补这一空白，我们拍摄了100所房屋并仔细编辑了这些图像。然后，我们让41名本科生（年龄在18至31岁之间）在三个维度上对每所房屋进行评分：典型性、喜爱度和面部相似度。这些评分具有较高的表面效度，分析显示典型性和喜爱度之间存在显著的正相关。我们预计，这个刺激集（即DalHouses）和相关评分将通过最小化获取刺激所需的努力，并便于研究的复制和扩展，对面部处理研究人员有用。所有100所房屋的照片及其评分数据可在http://dx.doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.1279430获取。
