Human figure drawing in adults: An update of the empirical evidence, 1967–1982.
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References (113)
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1967 • 32 citations
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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
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1975 • 25 citations
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1967 • 23 citations
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1980 • 22 citations
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1975 • 21 citations
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1967 • 21 citations
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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
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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