The impact of age and artistic inclination on the use of articulation and line quality in similarity and preference judgments

Itskowitz, Rivka; Glaubman, Hananyah; Hoffman, Michael A.

doi:10.1016/0022-0965(88)90020-3

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“…Even if their drawings are very understandable, they appear to be more complex due to the compiling of numerous details, perspectives or shadows affecting the distribution of line lengths and consequently reducing their efficiency. Contrary to young children, adults may attempt to reach an ideal in their representations linked to social norms that young children have not yet acquired 49 . The results concerning adults allow a better understanding and definition of our spatial index μ MLE .…”

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New indices to characterize drawing behavior in humans (Homo sapiens) and chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes)

Martinet

Sueur

Hirata

et al. 2021

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Techniques used in cave art suggest that drawing skills emerged long before the oldest known representative human productions (44,000 years bc). This study seeks to improve our knowledge of the evolutionary origins and the ontogenetic development of drawing behavior by studying drawings of humans (N = 178, 3- to 10-year-old children and adults) and chimpanzees (N = 5). Drawings were characterized with an innovative index based on spatial measures which provides the degree of efficiency for the lines that are drawn. Results showed that this index was lowest in chimpanzees, increased and reached its maximum between 5-year-old and 10-year-old children and decreased in adults, whose drawing efficiency was reduced by the addition of details. Drawings of chimpanzees are not random suggesting that their movements are constrained by cognitive or locomotor aspect and we cannot conclude to the absence of representativeness. We also used indices based on colors and time and asked children about what they drew. These indices can be considered relevant tools to improve our understanding of drawing development and evolution in hominids.

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New indices to characterize drawing behavior in humans (Homo sapiens) and chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes)

Martinet

Sueur

Hirata

et al. 2021

Sci Rep

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“…In other words, children's estimation that adults consider some drawings as 'good' or as 'better' than others, may affect their preferences and their subjective evaluations. Moreover, Itskowitz et al (1988) suggested that the preference for realism among older children might have its origins in learned social norms. In their study older children frequently asked for clarifications as to whether they should choose the pictures they liked or the pictures that other people would like.…”

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“…Another body of research attempted to investigate children's judgments about drawings (Hart & Goldin-Meadow, 1984;Itskowitz, Glaubman, & Hoffman, 1988;Taylor & Bacharach, 1981). These attempts can be characterized more as studies involving selection tasks in which children were asked to choose the 'best' drawing, rather than studies examining children's actual thoughts or preferences about drawings.…”

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“…For example, the data concerning whether children are satisfied with their own drawings are controversial. Some researchers claim that children are satisfied with their own drawings (Brooks, Glenn, & Crozier, 1988;Moore, 1986;Taylor & Bacharach, 1981), while others suggest that children prefer drawings that they fail to produce; that is, depictions which are developmentally advanced (Goodnow, Wilkins, & Dawes, 1986;Hart & Goldin-Meadow, 1984;Itskowitz et al, 1988). In addition, contradictory evidence comes from past studies based on observation.…”

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Children’s Judgments and Feelings about Their Own Drawings

Bonoti¹,

Metallidou²

2010

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The aim of the present study was to investigate possible age differences in drawing performance of preschool and primary school children, as well as in metacognitive experiences that are activated before and after the drawing process. The study is comprised of 222 children of both genders, aged from 4 to 12. They were tested individually in their schools. They were asked to produce four drawings, which vary on their level of complexity, and to rate before each drawing on a four-point scale the frequency of drawing similar themes and their feeling of difficulty. After the drawing they were asked to estimate again the difficulty they felt as well as the feeling of liking the drawing they produced and the correctness of the drawing. The results of a series of analyses of variance confirmed the expected improvement of drawing performance with age. There wasn't found, however, the same developmental course in the case of metacognitive experiences. On the contrary, there was found a significant decrease in the feeling of liking and the estimation of correctness of the drawings, especially after the second grade.

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“…If adolescents themselves are the actual "culture bearers" of youth cultures, their interpretations of other adolescents' drawings may lead to increased understanding of the drawings' meanings. Although researchers have used adolescents to evaluate the human figure drawings of other adolescents according to preference and similarity (Itskowitz, Glaubman, & Hoffman, 1988), no one has systematically used adolescents as interpreters of drawings.…”

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Guatemalan, Filipino, and U.S. Adolescents' Images of Women as Office Workers and Homemakers

Gibbons

Lynn

Stiles

et al. 1993

Psychology of Women Quarterly

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Although adolescents of different countries often draw pictures of the ideal woman cooking or working in an office, the meaning of the images may vary cross‐culturally. In the present study, 88 adolescents from the Philippines, the U.S.A., and Guatemala interpreted drawings by their same‐nationality peers. Interpreters from all three countries described the woman working in an office as hardworking and the woman cooking as a mother cooking for her family. In addition, Filipino adolescents wrote themes of contentment and organization, Guatemalan adolescents wrote themes of betterment, family, and hope, and U.S.A. adolescents wrote themes of contentment and niceness. Similar images of women's roles may have different meanings for adolescents of different cultures, and the use of emic approaches can provide psychological researchers with increased understanding of complex social phenomena.

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The impact of age and artistic inclination on the use of articulation and line quality in similarity and preference judgments

Cited by 4 publications

References 13 publications

New indices to characterize drawing behavior in humans (Homo sapiens) and chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes)

New indices to characterize drawing behavior in humans (Homo sapiens) and chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes)

Children’s Judgments and Feelings about Their Own Drawings

Guatemalan, Filipino, and U.S. Adolescents' Images of Women as Office Workers and Homemakers

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