Children's Recognition of Emotional Facial Expressions Through Photographs and Drawings
Résumé
The author’s purposewas to examine children’s recognition of emotional facial
expressions, by comparing two types of stimulus: photographs and drawings.
The author aimed to investigate whether drawings could be considered as
a more evocative material than photographs, as a function of age and emotion.
Five- and 7-year-old childrenwere presented with photographs and drawings
displaying facial expressions of 4 basic emotions (i.e., happiness, sadness,
anger, and fear) and were asked to perform a matching task by pointing to the
face corresponding to the target emotion labeled by the experimenter. The
photographswe usedwere selected fromthe Radboud FacesDatabase and the
drawings were designed on the basis of both the facial components involved
in the expression of these emotions and the graphic cues children tend to use
when asked to depict these emotions in their own drawings. Our results show
that drawings are better recognized than photographs, for sadness, anger,
and fear (with no difference for happiness, due to a ceiling effect). And that
the difference between the 2 types of stimuli tends to be more important for
5-year-olds compared to 7-year-olds. These results are discussed in view of their
implications, both for future research and for practical application.
Domaines
Psychologie
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