Psychology Labs and Resources
Department of Psychology
Image & Object Databases
Age Positive Images
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positive and realistic images of over 50s in a bid to challenge negative and stereotypical views of older age. The photos show a more realistic depiction of ageing – to help tackle ageism and challenge the idea that all older people are frail and vulnerable. The library, which contains over 3,000 images and is regularly updated, offers journalists, organisations and individuals a wide selection of images. Photos in the library are free for use across your presentations and websites, and they cover themes related to ageing such as health, homes and employment.
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https://ageing-better.org.uk/news/age-positive-image-library-launched
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International Picture Naming Project
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This database contains the stimuli pictures (520 objects and 275 actions), word lists, and sound files used in the different studies of the International Picture Naming Project.
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Szekely, A., Jacobsen, T., D'Amico, S., Devescovi, A., Andonova, E., Herron, D., ... & Bates, E. (2004). A new on-line resource for psycholinguistic studies. Journal of memory and language, 51(2), 247-250.
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Free to use
MultiPic
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The Multilingual Picture (MultiPic) databank is the result of an international collaborative project intended to provide the scientific community with a set of publicly available 750 drawings from common concrete concepts created by the same author, standardized for name agreement and visual complexity in several languages.
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Duñabeitia, J.A., Crepaldi, D., Meyer, A.S., New, B., Pliatsikas, C., Smolka, E., & Brysbaert, M. (in press). MultiPic: A standardized set of 750 drawings with norms for six European languages.Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology.
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Free to use with appropriate citation
Novel Object and Unusual Name Database (NOUN)
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Novel Objects: This part of the database includes photographs of objects that are not easily named by children (or adults).
Unusual Names: This part of the database is a collection of unusual names (AKA pseudowords and novel nouns) used in psychological research. This portion of the database is just a handy tool when an experimenter needs to choose words for a new stud
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Horst, J. S., & Hout, M. C. (2016). The Novel Object and Unusual Name (NOUN) Database: A collection of novel images for use in experimental research. Behavior research methods, 48(4), 1393-140
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word.lab@sussex.ac.uk
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FREE tool for researchers to facilitate experimental research
THINGS
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A database of 1,854 object concepts, 27 high-level categories, and more than 26,000 naturalistic object images
Hebart, M.N., Dickter, A.H., Kidder, A., Kwok, W.Y., Corriveau, A., Van Wicklin, C., & Baker, C.I. (2019). THINGS: A database of 1,854 object concepts and more than 26,000 naturalistic object images. bioRxiv 545954. https://doi.org/10.1101/545954
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PiSCES: Pictures with social context and emotional scenes
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A new picture database comprising 203 contextualized scenes of one or more people in everyday situations. All pictures are normed on emotional valence, intensity, and social engagement, a new construct measuring the degree of engagement between people, as perceived by participants
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Teh, E. J., Yap, M. J., & Liow, S. J. R. (2018). PiSCES: Pictures with social context and emotional scenes with norms for emotional valence, intensity, and social engagement. Behavior research methods, 50, 1793-1805.
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All the pictures and item-level norms are freely available to the scientific community in the Supplementary Materials
