Maayan Trzewik

🎉 New face database just dropped!
The Israeli Face Database (IFD) is a massive, diverse, and richly annotated set of facial images — now published in Behavior Research Methods.
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Now accepted at Behavior Research Methods! 🎉

Check out the updated preprint 👉 osf.io/preprints/ps...

Thank you, #ISCoP2025! 🎉 It’s always a pleasure to share our discoveries with our amazing local community of cognitive scientists!

And a huge thanks to @nivreggev.bsky.social for the mentorship and 📷!

New paper in @PsychScience
examining the effects of individuation vs. group information on evaluations of novel individuals, as measured with direct vs. indirect measures of evaluation.
Preprint 👉 doi.org/10.31234/osf...

Learn more about the IFD and its potential applications here:
🔗 doi.org/10.31234/osf...

Face judgments were broadly consistent between Israeli and US raters, with two key differences: Israelis rated faces as more typical, while US raters sorted them into more ethnic categories.

We also provide social norming data collected from Israeli and US participants. Faces were rated on 16 social traits, like dominance, trustworthiness, intelligence, and attractiveness.
Additionally, we examined how Israeli and US participants categorize the nationality and ethnicity of the faces.

All individuals were pictured posing multiple facial expressions—happiness, anger, sadness, and neutral face (with and without masks). We successfully validated the authenticity of these expressions. 👌

The IFD showcases individuals from across Israeli society’s diverse ethnic groups. How diverse?
The ancestries of the participants include Israel, Poland, Morocco, Germany, Russia, Romania, Argentina, Iraq, Tunisia, Ukraine, Yemen, and more.

✨ Excited to share our new preprint! ✨
After years of work in @nivreggev.bsky.social 's SCMB lab, we proudly present the Israeli Face Database (IFD)!
Special thanks to co-leader @mayanna.bsky.social, @talmoran.bsky.social, and everyone who made this possible. 🙌

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