Cultural perspectives on children s tadpole drawings: at the interface between
representation and production
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Gernhardt A
; Rübeling H
; Keller H
Front Psychol
2015[]; 6
(?): 812
PMID26136707
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This study investigated tadpole self-drawings from 183 three- to six-year-old
children living in seven cultural groups, representing three ecosocial contexts.
Based on assumed general production principles, the influence of cultural norms
and values upon specific characteristics of the tadpole drawings was examined.
The results demonstrated that children from all cultural groups realized the
body-proportion effect in the self-drawings, indicating universal production
principles. However, children differed in single drawing characteristics,
depending on the specific ecosocial context. Children from Western and
non-Western urban educated contexts drew themselves rather tall, with many facial
features, and preferred smiling facial expressions, while children from rural
traditional contexts depicted themselves significantly smaller, with less facial
details, and neutral facial expressions.
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