Many sets of human facial photographs produced in Western cultures are available for scientific research. We report here on the development of a face database of Turkish undergraduate student targets. High-resolution standardized photographs were taken and supported by the following materials: (a) basic demographic and appearance-related information, (b) two types of landmark configurations (for Webmorph and geometric morphometrics (GM)), (c) facial width-to-height ratio (fWHR) measurement, (d) information on photography parameters, (e) perceptual norms provided by raters. We also provide various analyses and visualizations of facial variation based on rating norms using GM. Finally, we found that there is sexual dimorphism in fWHR in our sample but that this is accounted for by body mass index. We present the pattern of associations between rating norms, GM and fWHR measurements. The database and supporting materials are freely available for scientific research purposes.

Department of Computer Science Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona Barcelona Spain

Department of Philosophy and History of Science Charles University Prague Czech Republic

Department of Psychology Boğaziçi University Istanbul Turkey

Department of Social Psychology Tilburg University Tilburg The Netherlands

National Institute of Mental Health Klecany Czech Republic

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