Abstract
AbstractTo conclude this stage of research on the representations of supernatural agents in children’s drawings, this chapter summarizes some of the main results of the works collected in this volume. The use of drawings to study children’s representations is not a classic methodology in child psychology. Analysing images is challenging on different levels: content analysis, material features of the drawings, and the development of technical tools needed for the analysis. This chapter discusses the benefits and the limitations of this methodology, as well as those of interdisciplinary approaches that try to combine computer vision methods with studies on child and adolescent development. It ends with the presentation of specific research ideas generated by this first stage of investigation, ideas which we propose as a program for a second stage of research.
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Springer International Publishing
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