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Chicago Face Database: Multiracial expansion
Debbie S Ma1, Justin Kantner2, Bernd Wittenbrink3
1Department of Psychology, California State University, Northridge, 18111 Nordhoff Street, Northridge, CA, 91330-8255, USA. debbie.ma@csun.edu.
Abstract:
Multiracial individuals represent a growing segment of the population and have been increasingly the focus of empirical study. Much of this research centers on the perception and racial categorization of multiracial individuals. The current paper reviews some of this research and describes the different types of stimuli that have been used in these paradigms. We describe the strengths and weaknesses associated with different operationalizations of multiracialism and highlight the dearth of research using faces of real multiracial individuals, which we posit may be due to the lack of available stimuli. Our research seeks to satisfy this need by providing a free set of high-resolution, standardized images featuring 88 real multiracial individuals along with extensive norming data and objective physical measures of these faces. These data are offered as an extension of the widely used Chicago Face Database and are available for download at www.chicagofaces.org for use in research.
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