Sex differences in expressive drawing

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 51, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 850-855

  Picard, Delphine ^a,b   Boulhais, Myriam ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ TOULOUSE JEAN JAURÈS   (France)

^b INSTITUT UNIVERSITAIRE DE FRANCE   (France)

Author keywords

Adolescents; Children; Divergent thinking; Drawing; Emotion; Sex differences

Indexed keywords

EID: 80052079458     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.paid.2011.07.017     Document Type: Article

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