Perception of emotions in drawings of faces: A developmental study
type: CreativeWork
description: 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.
abstract: 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.
author: Stanley, Robert Anthony
language: eng
keywords: Education, Art, Fine Arts, Psychology, General
date published: 2011-05-07T13:27:10Z
date modified: 2026-07-22T22:25:19Z
provider: University of Illinois - Urbana-Champaign
publisher: Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations
type: WebPage
source organization: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

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value: http://hdl.handle.net/2142/22044