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Human figure drawing in adults: An update of the empirical evidence, 1967–1982.

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Published1984
Citations92
References113

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1978 • 600 citations

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1968 • 218 citations

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1968 • 136 citations

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1981 • 39 citations

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1965 • 33 citations

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1967 • 32 citations

Evaluation of the figure drawing technique: Reliability, factorial structure, and diagnostic usefulness.

1970 • 32 citations

An evaluation of the clinical utility of the Draw-A-Person Test

1982 • 27 citations

Body Image Concerns of Psoriasis Patients As Reflected in Human Figure Drawings

1981 • 25 citations

HUMAN FIGURE DRAWINGS IN A PROSPECTIVE STUDY OF SIX DISORDERS

1975 • 25 citations

Relationship of distortion to DAP diagnostic accuracy among psychologists at three levels of sophistication.

1967 • 23 citations

Representation of the female body by early and late adolescent girls

1980 • 22 citations

Artistic Quality of Drawings and Judges' Evaluations of the DAP

1975 • 21 citations

The practice of clinical psychology in the United States

1967 • 21 citations

Guide for Qualitative Research with the H-T-P

1954 • 18 citations

An investigation into the comparative validity of several diagnostic tests and test batteries

1975 • 17 citations

Anxiety Indexes in the Draw a Person Test; A Scoring Manual

1967 • 17 citations

Some Differential Effects of Music on Projective and Structured Psychological Tests

1971 • 16 citations

Movement and Body-Image: A Preliminary Study

1981 • 15 citations

Ethnic and socioeconomic status differences in human figure drawings.

1971 • 14 citations

An investigation of self-concept and body image in the mentally retarded

1981 • 14 citations

Machover Revisited: Impact of Sex-Role Orientation on Sex Sequence on the Draw-a-Person Test

1978 • 14 citations

House-Tree-Person Drawings and Personality Traits

1972 • 13 citations

In Search of Pre-Menstrual Tension: Note on Sex-Differences in Psychological-Differentiation as a Function of Cyclical Physiological Changes

1976 • 13 citations

A comparison of black and white adolescents on the HTP

1976 • 12 citations

Racial Change in Negro Drawings

1968 • 12 citations

Critique of Swensen's “Empirical Evaluations of Human Figure Drawings”

1959 • 12 citations

Personality traits and color choices for house-tree-person drawings

1973 • 11 citations

Body Image Disturbance in Schizophrenia: A Study of Arms and Feet

1972 • 11 citations

Impact of Sex of Experimenter on the Draw-a-Person Test

1979 • 11 citations

Shading as an Index of Anxiety in Figure Drawings

1969 • 11 citations

Developmental Analysis of Human Figure Drawings in Adolescence, Young Adulthood, and Middle Age

1977 • 11 citations

Qualitative Differences in Human Figure Drawings According to Schizophrenic Subtype

1978 • 10 citations

Size of figure drawings of psychotically depressed patients.

1967 • 10 citations

Self-perception and the Draw-a-Person Test

1969 • 10 citations

Direction of psychosexual interest and figure drawing choice

1969 • 10 citations

Note on the Height of Draw-a-Person Figures by Male Alcoholics

1968 • 9 citations

Differences in Negro and White Drawings: A Cultural Interpretation

1967 • 9 citations

Quantification of two projective tests for deaf clients

1972 • 8 citations

The body image of pregnant women as reflected in their human figure drawings

1977 • 8 citations

Note on the Validity of Machover's Indicators of Anxiety

1971 • 8 citations

Clinical and sign prediction: The Draw-A-Person and female homosexuality

1975 • 8 citations

Indicators of Homosexuality in the Human Figure Drawings of Heroin- and Pill-Using Addicts

1969 • 8 citations

Draw-a-Person Protocols of Male and Female College Students

1967 • 8 citations

Body Disturbance and Sexual Elaboration Factors in Figure Drawings of Schizophrenic Patients

1973 • 8 citations

The height of normal adult figure drawings

1968 • 7 citations

First-Drawn Picture: A Cross-Cultural Investigation of the DAP

1969 • 7 citations

Sex of Free Choice Figure Drawings by Homosexual and Heterosexual Subjects

1974 • 7 citations

Female Homosexuals' Concepts of Self, Men, and Women

1975 • 7 citations

First-Drawn Pictures: A Cross-Cultural Investigation

1976 • 7 citations

Size of Figure Drawing in Relation to Depression

1968 • 6 citations

Variance in Size of Drawing in a Psychotic Population

1970 • 6 citations

Quantification of two projective tests for deaf clients: A large sample validation study

1973 • 6 citations

Obese Individuals' Perception of Body Image

1970 • 6 citations

Drawings by schizophrenic and non-schizophrenic mothers and their children

1979 • 5 citations

Size of Human Figures Drawn before and after Stress

1969 • 5 citations

Expansiveness-constriction on the H-T-P as indicators of extraversion-introversion

1967 • 5 citations

Drawings of the opposite sex: Continued use of the draw a person test and young state hospital patients

1976 • 5 citations

Color in house-tree-person drawings by college men and women

1971 • 5 citations

Self-Concepts of Young Nigerian Adolescents

1981 • 5 citations

Upper Left Hand Placement of Human Figure Drawings as an Indicator of Anxiety

1971 • 5 citations

Studies on figure drawings: biological implications of structural and graphic characteristics.

1968 • 5 citations

An impairment rating scale for human figure drawings

1974 • 5 citations

Conception and Representation of Space in Human Figure Drawings by Schizophrenic and Normal Subjects

1979 • 5 citations

Relationships among three components of self-concept and same-sex and opposite-sex human figure drawings

1978 • 5 citations

Choice of Gender on the Dap and Measures of Sex-Role Identification

1972 • 5 citations

Level of Self-Esteem and Size of Human Figure Drawing as a Function of Group vs Individual Administration

1976 • 5 citations

Handedness as a Determinant of Left-Right Placement in Human Figure Drawings

1980 • 4 citations

Birth Order, Sex, Perception and Production of Complexity

1969 • 4 citations

Primary Process Elements in the Draw-a-Person Protocols of Creative Young Women

1972 • 4 citations

Directionality in Qolla Indian Drawings

1977 • 4 citations

Performance of persons with Down's syndrome on two projective techniques.

1976 • 4 citations

Judging Whether a Patient is White or Black by his Draw-A-Person Test

1970 • 4 citations

Manifestations of the Schizophrenic Process in Figure Drawings of Adolescents

1968 • 4 citations

Quantifiable Aspects of Human Figure Drawings by Male Narcotics Addicts: Replications and Extensions

1972 • 4 citations

Teeth and threatening look in the Draw-A-Person test as indicating aggression

1967 • 3 citations

Is the Representation of the Objective Body-Image in Figure Drawings Related to the Personality Characteristics of the Drawer?

1974 • 3 citations

Human figure drawing characteristics: An empirical study

1968 • 3 citations

Human Figure Drawing Characteristics Related to Juvenile Delinquents

1975 • 3 citations

Nudity and Amount of Clothing on the Figure Drawings of Normal Adults

1971 • 3 citations

The relationship between self-concept and the draw-a-person test

1975 • 3 citations

Factor structure of the Figure-Drawing Test

1975 • 3 citations

Marital Status and Figure Drawing Choice in Normal Older Americans

1969 • 3 citations

Similarity between Complexity on Role Construct Repertory Technique and Articulation on Draw-a-Person Test for Patients and Non-Patients

1976 • 3 citations

Dominant parent as projected by homosexual and heterosexual males

1979 • 3 citations

Projective Stimulus Ambiguity: Some Theoretical and Empirical Considerations

1972 • 3 citations

Concurrent Validation Information on the Machover Draw-a-Person Test

1971 • 3 citations

DAP Correlates of Sc Scores on the MMPI

1969 • 3 citations

Performance Under Health-Engendering and Health-Depressing Conditions

1976 • 3 citations

The height of figure drawings related to IQ, sex and CA in mental retardates

1969 • 3 citations

Frequency of Nude Figure Drawings

1968 • 3 citations

Situational Variables and Performance on Machover's Figure-Drawing Test

1972 • 3 citations

Spatial placement of human figure drawings as an indicator of cognitive and personality characteristics among normal young adolescents.

1976 • 2 citations

PSYCHOLOGICAL DIFFERENTIATION AND PSYCHOTHERAPY

1976 • 2 citations

The use of clothing in human figure drawings

1969 • 2 citations

Figure Drawings in Subjects Recovering from Poliomyelitis

1972 • 2 citations

Variations in bilateral symmetry of human figure drawings associated with two levels of adjustment

1974 • 2 citations

Feminine tendencies in figure drawings by male homosexual retarded dyads

1971 • 2 citations

Inter-Rater and Test-Retest Reliability of a Proportionality Measure for the D-A-P

1970 • 2 citations

Figure Drawings by Sex Offenders and a Random Sample of Offenders

1971 • 2 citations

Acceptance of the Traditional Female Role and Sex of the First Person Drawn on the Draw-a-Person Test

1980 • 2 citations

Personality correlates of DAP facial expression

1971 • 2 citations

A Comparison of the Chromatic and Achromatic Figure Drawings of Adult Psychiatric Patients

1970 • 1 citations

Figure drawing size as an index of depression and MMPI depression scores in normal adults

1969 • 1 citations

A Scoring System for Human Figure Drawings as a Measure of Personality at Level III of the Leary Interpersonal Diagnostic System

1970 • 1 citations

Height on the Draw-a-Person: Comparison of Figure Drawings of Black and White Male Drug Abusers

1977 • 1 citations

Sex of figure drawing in identifying practicing male homosexuals.

1970 • 1 citations

Size of human figure drawings as influenced by instructions for “sexy” versus “average” drawings and by the status of the experimenter

1982 • 1 citations

Decrease of Rated Adjustment on Repeat DAP Tests Apparently Due to Lower Motivation

1969 • 1 citations

Test of the Unimportance of Particular Item Content Using the HTP and the MMPI

1969 • 1 citations

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