This item refers to the dynamic virtual faces dataset created for the paper “Validation of dynamic virtual faces for facial affect recognition”. It consists of a computer program that displays several dynamic virtual avatars performing the six basic emotions (happiness, anger, disgust, fear, surprise and sadness) plus the neutral. This new dataset has been validated by a stratified sample of 204 healthy people. The objective was to validate the emotions performed by the dynamic virtual avatars as a previous step to use them in future social cognition therapies.