Data & Databases

Available Data Sets

Félix, S. B., Pandeirada, J. N. S., & Nairne, J. S. (2019). Animacy Norms for 224 European Portuguese Concrete Words. Análise Psicológica.

• • data set available here: [XLSX]

Nairne, J. S., Coverdale, M. E., & Pandeirada, J. N. S. (in press). Adaptive memory: The mnemonic power of survival-based generation. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition.

• • data set available here: [XLSX]

Pandeirada, J. N. S., Fernandes, N. L., Vasconcelos M., Nairne, J. S. (2017). Adaptive memory: Remembering potential mates. Evolutionary Psychology, 15(4), 1-11. doi: 10.1177/1474704917742807

• • data set available here: [XLSX]

Objects-on-Hands Picture Database

The Objects-on-Hands Picture Database contains realistic high quality pictures of 126 everyday objects from six different categories (women’s accessories, fruits, kitchen utensils, office supplies, toys, and vegetables), captured using two different camera viewpoints (frontal-view and top-view viewpoints), in five different conditions (alone on a white background, in clean hands, in hands covered with mud, in hands covered with a pasta sauce, and in hands covered with chocolate and peanut butter spread).

Normative data on name agreement and familiarity for the objects held by clean hands were collected from North American and Portuguese people. Norms for the objects from the sauce condition were also collect from an additional Portuguese sample. Arousal, disgust and emotional valence ratings were obtained for all pictures. The same data were also collected when the exact same pictures were framed in a disgusting situation (diarrhea) and in a non-disgusting condition (chocolate).

Fernandes, N. L., Pandeirada, J. N. S., & Nairne, J. N. (2019). Presenting new stimuli to study emotion: Development and validation of the objects-on-hands picture database. PLoS ONE. 14(7): e0219615. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0219615 [PDF]