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Creation and Validation of the Japanese Cute Infant Face (JCIF) Dataset

Research interest in cuteness perception and its effects on subsequent behavior and physiological responses has recently been increasing. The purpose of the present study was to produce a dataset of Japanese infant faces that are free of portrait rights and can be used for cuteness research. A total...

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Autores principales: Nittono, Hiroshi, Ohashi, Akane, Komori, Masashi
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Frontiers Media S.A. 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8895142/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35250755
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.819428
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Ohashi, Akane
Komori, Masashi
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description Research interest in cuteness perception and its effects on subsequent behavior and physiological responses has recently been increasing. The purpose of the present study was to produce a dataset of Japanese infant faces that are free of portrait rights and can be used for cuteness research. A total of 80 original facial images of 6-month-old infants were collected from their parents. The cuteness level of each picture was rated on a 7-point scale by 200 Japanese people (100 men and 100 women in their 20s–60s). Prototypical high- and low-cuteness faces were created by averaging the top 10 and bottom 10 faces according to the mean cuteness ratings. Then, 50 composite faces were made by mixing two faces randomly chosen from the 60 unused middle-cuteness faces. The normative cuteness ratings of these composite faces were obtained from 229 Japanese men and women in their 20s–60s. The shape of each composite face was transformed to be cuter (+50%) or less cute (–50%) along a continuum between the high- and low-cuteness prototypical faces. A two-alternative forced-choice task (N = 587) confirmed that cuteness discrimination was better than the chance level for all 50 face pairs. Moreover, the results showed that young men had poorer sensitivity to cuteness differences in infant faces than older men and women of any age. This Japanese Cute Infant Face (JCIF, “jay-sif”) dataset, including composite face images and normative rating scores, is publicly available online.
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spelling pubmed-88951422022-03-05 Creation and Validation of the Japanese Cute Infant Face (JCIF) Dataset Nittono, Hiroshi Ohashi, Akane Komori, Masashi Front Psychol Psychology Research interest in cuteness perception and its effects on subsequent behavior and physiological responses has recently been increasing. The purpose of the present study was to produce a dataset of Japanese infant faces that are free of portrait rights and can be used for cuteness research. A total of 80 original facial images of 6-month-old infants were collected from their parents. The cuteness level of each picture was rated on a 7-point scale by 200 Japanese people (100 men and 100 women in their 20s–60s). Prototypical high- and low-cuteness faces were created by averaging the top 10 and bottom 10 faces according to the mean cuteness ratings. Then, 50 composite faces were made by mixing two faces randomly chosen from the 60 unused middle-cuteness faces. The normative cuteness ratings of these composite faces were obtained from 229 Japanese men and women in their 20s–60s. The shape of each composite face was transformed to be cuter (+50%) or less cute (–50%) along a continuum between the high- and low-cuteness prototypical faces. A two-alternative forced-choice task (N = 587) confirmed that cuteness discrimination was better than the chance level for all 50 face pairs. Moreover, the results showed that young men had poorer sensitivity to cuteness differences in infant faces than older men and women of any age. This Japanese Cute Infant Face (JCIF, “jay-sif”) dataset, including composite face images and normative rating scores, is publicly available online. Frontiers Media S.A. 2022-02-18 /pmc/articles/PMC8895142/ /pubmed/35250755 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.819428 Text en Copyright © 2022 Nittono, Ohashi and Komori. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
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Nittono, Hiroshi
Ohashi, Akane
Komori, Masashi
Creation and Validation of the Japanese Cute Infant Face (JCIF) Dataset
title Creation and Validation of the Japanese Cute Infant Face (JCIF) Dataset
title_full Creation and Validation of the Japanese Cute Infant Face (JCIF) Dataset
title_fullStr Creation and Validation of the Japanese Cute Infant Face (JCIF) Dataset
title_full_unstemmed Creation and Validation of the Japanese Cute Infant Face (JCIF) Dataset
title_short Creation and Validation of the Japanese Cute Infant Face (JCIF) Dataset
title_sort creation and validation of the japanese cute infant face (jcif) dataset
topic Psychology
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8895142/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35250755
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.819428
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