Faces Database

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Welcome to Lira Faces Database! By accessing this website we assume you accept these terms and conditions. Do not continue to use Lira Faces Database if you do not agree to take all of the terms and conditions stated on this page.
Unless otherwise stated, Laboratory for Research of Individual Differences, University of Belgrade, owns the intellectual property rights for all material on www.lirafacesdb.rs. All intellectual property rights are reserved. You may access this from www.lirafacesdb.rs for academic use subjected to restrictions set in these terms and conditions.

Using Lira Faces Database stimuli for research

  1. Lira Faces Database stimuli may be used for non-commercial academic research purposes only.
  2. Lira Faces Database stimuli may NOT be redistributed without written consent from the copyright holder (University of Belgrade, Laboratory for Individual Differences). Contact LIRA for more information.
  3. If you use the Lira Faces Database stimuli in your research, please add the below reference to your manuscript’s reference list , Ninković, M., & Zezelj, I. (2020, November 4). Lira Faces Database. Retrieved from osf.io/y4r39
  4. If you include any stimulus from the LFD in a figure in your manuscript, please include information about the photo ID in figure text.
  5. You are not allowed to sell, rent, or sub-licence material from Lira Faces Database.
  6. You are not allowed to reproduce, duplicate or copy material from Lira Faces Database.

About the database

The Lira Faces Database (LFD) was developed at the Laboratory for research of individual differences, University of Belgrade. The LFD contains photographs of individuals of Roma ethnicity that are intended for use in scientific research. Roma are the largest ethnic minority across European countries (Rosenfield, 2010) and the most universally discriminated against (EU minorities and discrimination survey, 2016). Apart from standard self-report measures, researchers can develop different indirect measures of anti-Roma stereotypes and prejudice. This database is intended to serve as a visual stimuli pool for such research.

The LFD provides high-resolution photographs of 60 individuals (30 women and 30 men) of Roma ethnicity, aged 18-35 taken against neutral background and without any additional identifiers (e.g. clothing, jewellery). Each individual was photographed with neutral, angry, happy, and sad facial expression, making a total of 240 photographs available. The photographs are available in JPG format. All of the photos were taken for the purpose of this project. The persons photographed received financial compensation and signed an informed consent allowing the use of their photos in scientific research.

For photographs of neutral facial expression, we provide the data about assessed prototypicality, attractiveness, and age of each model person. For photographs with emotional expressions, we provide the data about assessed emotional intensity and authenticity, along with the percentage of correctly identified emotion for each photo. A total of 249 psychology students from the University of Belgrade assessed the photographs.