ISIEA: An image database of social inclusion and exclusion in young Asian adults

Abstract

Human beings have a fundamental need to belong. Evaluating and dealing with social exclusion and social inclusion events, which represent negative and positive social interactions, respectively, are closely linked to our physical and mental health. In addition to traditional paradigms that simulate scenarios of social interaction, images are utilized as effective visual stimuli for research on socio-emotional processing and regulation. Since the current mainstream emotional image database lacks social stimuli based on a specific social context, we introduced an open-access image database of social inclusion/exclusion in young Asian adults (ISIEA). This database contains a set of 164 images depicting social interaction scenarios under three categories of social contexts (social exclusion, social neutral, and social inclusion). All images were normatively rated on valence, arousal, inclusion score, and vicarious feeling by 150 participants in Study 1. We additionally examined the relationships between image ratings and the potential factors influencing ratings. The importance of facial expression and social context in the image rating of ISIEA was examined in Study 2. We believe that this database allows researchers to select appropriate materials for socially related studies and to flexibly conduct experimental control.

The dual facilitatory and inhibitory effects of social pain on physical pain perception

“…Using scenarios of social exclusion in a university campus setting to arouse feelings of social pain in participants, Experiment 1 examined the effects of social pain on physical pain perception when both types of pain were experienced. Pictures were selected from an open-access image database of social inclusion/exclusion in young Asian adults (ISIEA), 35 and each was assessed in terms of its effectiveness in arousing participants’ feelings of social exclusion ( Figure 1 A). A total of 80 pictures were used, with 60 depicting scenes of social exclusion and 20 depicting neutral social scenes.…”

Concurrent TMS-EEG and EEG reveal neuroplastic and oscillatory changes associated with self-compassion and negative emotions

“…The images used here were derived from an image database of social inclusion and exclusion in young Asian adults ( He et al, 2018 ; Zhao et al, 2021 ; Zheng et al, 2021 ). A total of 60 images were randomly assigned to the two tasks (30 of each), with the valence and arousal of the two sets being matched ( Supplementary Material, Method section 1) .…”

The role of ventrolateral prefrontal cortex on voluntary emotion regulation of social pain

“…The experimental materials were 60 social exclusion pictures selected from the Image database of social inclusion and exclusion in Asian young adults (Zheng et al, 2022), which was developed by our lab and has been used to successfully evoke social pain in our previous studies (He et al, 2018; He, Liu, et al, 2020; He, Zhao, et al, 2020; Zhao et al, 2021). During the experiment, all images were presented in the center of an LCD monitor (3.0 × 3.5° visual angle).…”