Perception of emotions in drawings of faces: A developmental study
The purpose of this study is to investigate children's (4th graders and 7th graders) and young adults' (college undergraduates) ability to perceive the emotions of happy, sad, angry, and surprised contained in portrait drawings from art history. Differences in responses of the fourth graders, seventh graders, and college undergraduates were measured by using the chi square statistic. Facial expressions of emotion were examined through a viewing of 24 drawings. The first set of 12 are considered true emotions, and the second set are considered blends according to work done by Ekman (1975). The blends were identified by judges' inability to attach a single emotion to the drawing.
Education, Art, Fine Arts, Psychology, General
University of Illinois - Urbana-Champaign
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University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign