Missaghi-Lakshman M, Whissell C
Psychology Department, Laurentian University, Sudbury, Ontario, Canada.
Percept Mot Skills. 1991 Jun;72(3 Pt 2):1228-30. doi: 10.2466/pms.1991.72.3c.1228.
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.
来自二年级、四年级和七年级的67名儿童绘制了代表恐惧、愤怒、惊讶、厌恶、快乐和悲伤等情绪表达的面部画。这些儿童自己以及29名成年人随后在一项情绪识别任务中对这些画作进行解读。儿童是更准确的解读者，对于七年级学生的画作判断，他们的准确率以及成年人的准确率都显著提高。快乐和悲伤这两种情绪被解读得最为准确。不存在与性别相关的显著差异。在他们的画作中，儿童运用了一种符号系统，该系统似乎基于对天生支配的面部情绪表达特征的突出或夸张。
