Children's understanding of facial expression of emotion: II. Drawing of emotion-faces.
67 children from Grades 2, 4, and 7 drew faces representing the emotional expressions of fear, anger, surprise, disgust, happiness, and sadness. The children themselves and 29 adults later decoded the drawings in an emotion-recognition task. Children were the more accurate decoders, and their accuracy and the accuracy of adults increased significantly for judgments of 7th-grade drawings. The emotions happy and sad were most accurately decoded. There were no significant differences associated with sex. In their drawings, children utilized a symbol system that seems to be based on a highlighting or exaggeration of features of the innately governed facial expression of emotion.
Missaghi-Lakshman
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Psychology Department, Laurentian University, Sudbury, Ontario, Canada.
Whissell
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D000367:Age Factors; D001154:Art; D002648:Child; D003071:Cognition; D004644:Emotions; D005149:Facial Expression; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D002666:Psychology, Child; D014796:Visual Perception