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Children's Recognition of Emotional Facial Expressions Through Photographs and Drawings

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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.

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hal-04494754 , version 1 (07-03-2024)

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Claire Brechet. Children's Recognition of Emotional Facial Expressions Through Photographs and Drawings. Journal of Genetic Psychology, 2017, 178 (2), pp.139-146. ⟨10.1080/00221325.2017.1286630⟩. ⟨hal-04494754⟩
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