The Set of Fear Inducing Pictures (SFIP) is a standardized set of photographs divided into five categories (social exposure, blood/injection, small animals, angry faces, and neutral images) for measuring different phobic disorders. Pictures were taken from the IAPS (Lang et al., 2008), GAPED (Dan-Glauser & Scherer, 2011), NAPS (Marchewka et al., 2014), and the Warsaw Set of Emotional Facial Expression Pictures (WSEFEP; Olszanowski et al., 2015), as well as from freely available non-profit photography stocks or pictures taken by the coauthors. Normative ratings of valence, arousal, and fear were collected for each picture from small-animal fear, blood/injection fear, and social fear groups, and from a non-fearful control group.
The NAPS images (N = 753) as well as pictures from freely available non-profit photography stocks and those taken by the authors (N = 134) that are included in the SFIP are free to download after filling out the official form, available from the following public webpage (http://naps.nencki.gov.pl/). This webpage also provides access to the SFIP picture ratings and their physical features (luminance, contrast, and complexity). The stimuli from IAPS, WSEFES, and GAPED are available from the original authors.
SFIP should be cited as follows:
• Michałowski, J. M., Droździel, D., Matuszewski, J., Koziejowski, W., Jednoróg, K., & Marchewka, A. (2017). The Set of Fear Inducing Pictures (SFIP): Development and validation in fearful and nonfearful individuals. Behavior Research Methods, 49(4), 1407-1419.
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