Datasets

Open datasets released alongside published research. All datasets are freely available for academic use — please cite the associated paper if you use them.

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Attractiveness Halo Effect Attribution Dataset
Zenodo
A large-scale crowdsourced dataset examining how beauty filters influence perceptions of the attractiveness halo effect. Collected from 2,748 participants rating 472 individuals with and without cosmetic filters applied, across multiple trait dimensions including intelligence, competence, and trustworthiness.
Aditya Gulati, Marina Martinez-Garcia, Daniel Fernandez, Miguel Angel Lozano, Bruno Lepri, Nuria Oliver
Associated paper: What is Beautiful is Still Good: The Attractiveness Halo Effect in AI Systems Royal Society Open Science, 2024
LookismBench-SyntheticFaces
Synthetic Face Dataset for Algorithmic Lookism Benchmarking
Hugging Face
A benchmark dataset of approximately 26,000 synthetic face images generated with Stable Diffusion 2.1 and 3.5, designed to evaluate algorithmic bias in appearance-based discrimination across text-to-image generation and classification models. Enables systematic assessment of lookism in generative AI systems.
Miriam Doh, Aditya Gulati, Corinna Canali, Nuria Oliver