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Clicking the button at the top of the screen will expand the available search options. For instance, if you are only interested in pictures of women with anomalous faces, you could uncheck "Male" to filter your results by sex. You can export these filtered results to a zip file, which includes the images as well as a filtered version of the demographics spreadsheet.

If you would prefer to download a complete copy of the CFAD, you can do that HERE (~500mb).


Here are a few of the publications that have used the CFAD stimuli:

Workman, C. I. & Chatterjee, A. (2021). The Face Image Meta-Database (fIMDb) & ChatLab Facial Anomaly Database (CFAD): Tools for research on face perception and social stigma. Methods in Psychology, 5(100063):1-9.

Workman, C.I., Humphries, S., Hartung, F., Aguirre, G.K., Kable, J.W., Chatterjee, A. (2021). Morality is in the eye of the beholder: the neurocognitive basis of the "anomalous-is-bad" stereotype. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 1494(1):3-17. (Click HERE to download a zip with the stimuli from this study along with the normative ratings)

Hartung, F., Jamrozik, A., Rosen, M. E., Aguirre, G., Sarwer, D. B., & Chatterjee, A. (2019). Behavioural and Neural Responses to Facial Disfigurement. Scientific Reports, 9(1), 8021.

Jamrozik, A., Oraa Ali, M., Sarwer, D. B., & Chatterjee, A. (2019). More than skin deep: Judgments of individuals with facial disfigurement. Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts, 13(1), 117–129. (Click HERE to download a zip with the stimuli from this study along with the normative ratings)

Workman, C.I. & Chatterjee, A. (2021, September). The Face Image Meta-Database (fIMDb) & ChatLab Facial Anomaly Database (CFAD): A suite of tools to aid research on human facial aesthetics. Abstract accepted for presentation at the 25th Biennial Meetings of the International Association of Empirical Aesthetics, Virtual.

Workman, C.I., Aguirre, G.K., Chatterjee, A. (2020, May). Judging books by their covers: A candidate neurocognitive mechanism underpinning bias towards facial anomalies. Poster presented at the 27th Annual Meeting of The Cognitive Neuroscience Society, Boston, MA, USA. (Click HERE to download a zip with the stimuli from this study along with the normative ratings)

Bilici, N., Workman, C.I., Humphries, S.A., Hamilton, R.H., Chatterjee, A. (2020, May). Normalizing Anomalies with Mobile Exposure (NAME): A novel intervention for reducing implicit biases. Poster presented at the 27th Annual Meeting of The Cognitive Neuroscience Society, Boston, MA, USA.

Workman, C.I., Jamrozik, A., Rosen, M.E., Chatterjee, A. (2019, March). The Face Image Meta-Database and Chatlab Facial Anomaly Database: Tools to Facilitate Neuroscience Research on Face Perception and Social Stigma. Poster presented at the 26th Annual Meeting of The Cognitive Neuroscience Society, San Francisco, CA, USA.