The Geneva Affective Picture Database (GAPED) includes 730 affective pictures and was created to increase the availability of visual emotion stimuli. Four specific negative contents were chosen: spiders, snakes, and scenes that induce emotions related to the violation of moral and legal norms (human rights violation or animal mistreatment). In addition, both positive and neutral pictures were also included; positive pictures represent mainly human and animal babies as well as nature scenes, whereas neutral pictures mainly depict inanimate objects. The pictures were rated according to valence, arousal, and the congruence of the represented scene with internal (moral) and external (legal) norms. Each emotional category contains over 100 pictures.
Affective images were gathered through an extensive online Web search on the various composing themes. All pictures were rated after having been centered and resized and cropped to a 640 x 480 pixels size.
The database and the ratings are available here for download (https://www.unige.ch/cisa/research/materials-and-online-research/research-material/). Please read the "readme.txt" file before use of the database.
GAPED should be cited as follows:
• Dan-Glauser, E. S., & Scherer, K. R. (2011). The Geneva affective picture database (GAPED): a new 730-picture database focusing on valence and normative significance. Behavior Research Methods, 43(2), 468.
N002, N009, N014, N024, N030, N034, N061, N079, N086, N098, N107, Sn068, Sp012, Sp027, Sp034, Sp044.