Open Educational & Research Resources
Tools I’ve built for the community
Both resources below are free and openly available. Use them, cite them, and build on them — that’s what they’re for.
Open dataset · Open Science Framework
FACETS
Faces Across Cameras, Time, Emotions, and Settings. An open-access face-image database, rated for similarity, built to support research on facial recognition, identification, and emotion perception under ecologically valid conditions — the kind of variation (different cameras, different days, different expressions and environments) that real identity-matching has to cope with.
- For
- Researchers in face perception, eyewitness identification, biometrics, and emotion.
- Access
- osf.io/brxmn (Open Science Framework)
- Status
- Database paper, “The FACETS Database rated for similarity,” in preparation. Cite the OSF project until it appears.
Open educational program · NSF-supported
PREP
Psychology Research Experience Preparedness Program. Free, self-paced modules and lab-manual templates that scaffold undergraduate research training. PREP gives students a realistic preview of what research actually involves — including a fit-check reflection — before they commit to a lab. It is the on-ramp my own students complete first, and it is available to any program that wants it.
- For
- Undergraduates considering research, and faculty who mentor them.
- Time
- Roughly 6–8 hours, self-paced.
- Access
- tinyurl.com/preppsyc
- Learn more
- PsychSessions Podcast, Sidebar 29 (Oct 2025)
Both resources are shared under open licenses. If you use them in teaching or research, I’d love to hear about it — get in touch.