The Caucasian and North African French Faces (CaNAFF): A Face Database

Annique Smeding,Dominique Muller,Rémi Courset,Marine Rougier,Alan Chauvin,Juliette Manto Jonte,Richard Palluel-Germain

doi:10.5334/irsp.179

Abstract

In France, when studying intergroup relations between ethnicities, one usually contrasts Caucasian and North African individuals. Despite the presence of a large number of face databases in the literature, none of them contains Caucasian and North African faces similar to faces we can find in a usual French environment. To overcome this problem, we propose a new database: the Caucasian and North African French Faces (CaNAFF). One hundred and forty-seven individuals, scattered on prototypicality across the Caucasian/North African continuum, have been photographed. These individuals displayed a neutral emotional expression and photos were taken under three eye gaze directions (right, frontal, and left), resulting in a total of 441 photos. Subsequently, in order to validate our database, 25 participants evaluated the photos on emotional neutrality and 30 participants evaluated faces on ethnic prototypicality, attractiveness, and willingness to approach/avoid faces. We make available to researchers this database as well as the result of the validation as a support for studying relations between Caucasian and North African individuals in France. The procedure for requesting access to the CaNAFF database as well as the validation file are available on this following link: https://osf.io/274ry/ .

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In France, when studying intergroup relations between ethnicities, one usually contrasts Caucasian and North African individuals
Grenoble Alpes, LPNC, FR Corresponding author: Dominique Muller rent contribution is to provide a face database, the Caucasian and North African French Faces (CaNAFF), designed to be used when scholars are interested in using Caucasian and North African faces corresponding to faces that can be encountered in France
Prototypicality and Its Relationship to Perception of the Faces Our goal was to create a database of Caucasian and North African faces, prototypical of faces encountered in a French environment

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In France, when studying intergroup relations between ethnicities, one usually contrasts Caucasian and North African individuals. More important for our purpose, some of them contain faces of different ethnicities (e.g. Langner et al, 2010; Ma et al, 2015) This last kind of database can be especially useful for scholars interested in intergroup relations between ethnicities. Greenwald et al, 1998), evaluative priming (Wittenbrink, Judd & Park, 2001), and the shooter task (Correll, Park, Judd & Wittenbrink, 2002; Mange, Chun, Sharvit & Belanger, 2012) In this field, faces can be used either as targets, like in approach/avoidance tasks (Paladino & Castelli, 2008), or as primes, like in the stereotype misperception task (Krieglmeyer & Sherman, 2012). These variations in terms of paradigms, should not let us overlook that, depending on the country where the study is conducted, relevant ethnicities and facial p rototypes may differ

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