Videos and Media

socialStim

These clips are samples of the socialStim, a set of over 5,000 video clips created by the PEP Lab showing actors from diverse demographic backgrounds saying positive and negative socially evaluative statements, as well as neutral statements. The socialStim are suitable for use in MRI scanning environments to activate social-emotional neural networks, as well as behavioral tasks such as social reward paradigms.

To cite the socialStim, please use the following reference:

Tully, L.M., Zakskorn, L.N., Skymba, H.V., Morrison, M.C., Sellers, A.M., Rahim, R.A. (2017) The SocialStim: A video database of positive and negative social evaluation stimuli for use in social cognitive neuroscience paradigms. Annual Meeting of the Society for Research in Psychopathology.

Actor demographics: socialstim_lookbook_200207.pdf

Female actor, positive social evaluation

Male actor, positive social evaluation

Female actor, negative social evaluation

Male actor, negative social evaluation

Female actor, neutral statement

Male actor, neutral statement