scholarly journals White men and electric guns: Analysing the Amazonian dystopia through Shipibo-Konibo children’s drawings

2021 ◽  
pp. 204361062199583
Author(s):  
Thaís de Carvalho
Keyword(s):  
White Men ◽  
High Tech ◽  
Children's Drawings ◽  
Children’S Drawings ◽  
Racial Dynamics ◽  
Before And After ◽  
Andean Countries ◽  
The Village ◽  
Dual Capacity

In Andean countries, the pishtaco is understood as a White-looking man that steals Indigenous people’s organs for money. In contemporary Amazonia, the Shipibo-Konibo people describe the pishtaco as a high-tech murderer, equipped with a sophisticated laser gun that injects electricity inside a victim’s body. This paper looks at this dystopia through Shipibo-Konibo children’s drawings, presenting composite sketches of the pishtaco and maps of the village before and after an attack. Children portrayed White men with syringes and electric guns as weaponry, while discussing whether organ traffickers could also be mestizos nowadays. Meanwhile, the comparison of children’s maps before and after the attack reveals that lit lampposts are paradoxically perceived as a protection at night. The paper examines changing features of pishtacos and the dual capacity of electricity present in children’s drawings. It argues that children know about shifting racial dynamics in the village’s history and recognise development’s oxymoron: the same electricity that can be a weapon is also used as a shield.

Children’s Drawings About “Radiation”—Before and After Fukushima

2012 ◽  
Vol 43 (4) ◽  
pp. 1535-1549 ◽  
Author(s):  
Susanne Neumann ◽  
Martin Hopf
Keyword(s):  
Children's Drawings ◽  
Children’S Drawings ◽  
Before And After

Review of Group Values Through Children's Drawings.

1966 ◽  
Vol 11 (9) ◽  
pp. 456-457
Keyword(s):  
Children's Drawings ◽  
Children’S Drawings

Children’s Drawings and Development

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wirawani Kamarulzaman
Keyword(s):  
Children's Drawings ◽  
Children’S Drawings

Depicting emotions for a male or for a female audience: Do children adapt the content of their drawings to the audience gender?

2021 ◽  
pp. 016502542110316
Author(s):  
Claire Brechet ◽  
Sara Creissen ◽  
Lucie D’Audigier ◽  
Nathalie Vendeville
Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
Contextual Cues ◽  
Children's Drawings ◽  
Emotional Information ◽  
Facial Cues ◽  
Audience Control ◽  
Children’S Drawings ◽  
Explicit Mention ◽  
Female Audience ◽  
Therapeutic Settings

When depicting emotions, children have been shown to alter the content of their drawings (e.g., number and types of expressive cues) depending on the characteristics of the audience (i.e., age, familiarity, and authority). However, no study has yet investigated the influence of the audience gender on children’s depiction of emotions in their drawings. This study examined whether drawing for a male versus for a female audience have an impact on the number and type of emotional information children use to depict sadness, anger, and fear. Children aged 7 ( N = 92) and 9 ( N = 126) were asked to draw a figure and then to produce three drawings of a person, to depict three emotions (sadness, anger, fear). Children were randomly assigned to one of the three conditions: they were instructed either to draw with no explicit mention of an audience (control condition) or to draw so that the depicted emotion would be recognized by a male (male audience condition) or by a female (female audience condition). A content analysis was conducted on children’s drawings, revealing the use of seven types of graphic cues for each emotion. We found numerous differences between the three conditions relative to the type of cues used by children to depict emotions, particularly for anger and fear and particularly at the age of 7. Overall, children used facial cues more frequently for a female audience and contextual cues more frequently for a male audience. These results are discussed in terms of their implications in clinical, educational, and therapeutic settings.

Does uncertainty boost overconfidence? The case of financial analysts' forecasts

2014 ◽  
Vol 40 (3) ◽  
pp. 300-324 ◽  
Author(s):  
Véronique Bessière ◽  
Taoufik Elkemali
Keyword(s):  
Stock Returns ◽  
Private Information ◽  
High Tech ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Forecast Dispersion ◽  
Content Type ◽  
The Public ◽  
Public Announcement ◽  
Before And After ◽  
Sectional Analysis

Purpose – This article aims to examine the link between uncertainty and analysts' reaction to earnings announcements for a sample of European firms during the period 1997-2007. In the same way as Daniel et al., the authors posit that overconfidence leads to an overreaction to private information followed by an underreaction when the information becomes public. Design/methodology/approach – In this study, the authors test analysts' overconfidence through the overreaction preceding a public announcement followed by an underreaction after the announcement. If overconfidence occurs, over- and underreactions should be, respectively, observed before and after the public announcement. If uncertainty boosts overconfidence, the authors predict that these two combined misreactions should be stronger when uncertainty is higher. Uncertainty is defined according to technology intensity, and separate two types of firms: high-tech or low-tech. The authors use a sample of European firms during the period 1997-2007. Findings – The results support the overconfidence hypothesis. The authors jointly observe the two phenomena of under- and overreaction. Overreaction occurs when the information has not yet been made public and disappears just after public release. The results also show that both effects are more important for the high-tech subsample. For robustness, the authors sort the sample using analyst forecast dispersion as a proxy for uncertainty and obtain similar results. The authors also document that the high-tech stocks crash in 2000-2001 moderated the overconfidence of analysts, which then strongly declined during the post-crash period. Originality/value – This study offers interesting insights in two ways. First, in the area of financial markets, it provides a test of a major over- and underreaction model and implements it to analysts' reactions through their revisions (versus investors' reactions through stock returns). Second, in a broader way, it deals with the link between uncertainty and biases. The results are consistent with the experimental evidence and extend it to a cross-sectional analysis that reinforces it as pointed out by Kumar.

scholarly journals The effects of different drawing materials on children’s drawings of positive and negative human figures

2011 ◽  
Vol 31 (4) ◽  
pp. 459-479 ◽  
Author(s):  
Esther Burkitt ◽  
Martyn Barrett
Keyword(s):  
Children's Drawings ◽  
Children’S Drawings

The Usefulness of Children's Drawings in the Diagnosis of Headache

PEDIATRICS ◽  
2002 ◽  
Vol 109 (3) ◽  
pp. 460-472 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. E. Stafstrom ◽  
K. Rostasy ◽  
A. Minster
Keyword(s):  
Children's Drawings ◽  
Children’S Drawings

Kindergarten children’s perceptions of the social unrest in Hong Kong

2021 ◽  
pp. 1476718X2110627
Author(s):  
Caroline Cohrssen ◽  
Nirmala Rao ◽  
Puja Kapai ◽  
Priya Goel La Londe
Keyword(s):  
Hong Kong ◽  
Thematic Analysis ◽  
Media Coverage ◽  
Children's Drawings ◽  
Social Unrest ◽  
Protest Movements ◽  
Children's Perceptions ◽  
The Social ◽  
Children’S Drawings ◽  
The World

Hong Kong experienced a period of significant social unrest, marked by protests, from June 2019 to February 2020. Media coverage was pervasive. In July 2020, children aged from 5 to 6 years attending kindergartens in areas both directly and less directly impacted by the protests were asked to draw and talk about what had taken place during the social unrest. Thematic analysis of children’s drawings demonstrates the extent of their awareness and understanding and suggests that children perceived both protestors and police as angry and demonstrating aggression. Many children were critical of police conduct and saw protestors as needing protection from the police. Children around the world have been exposed to protest movements in recent times. The implications for parents, teachers and schools are discussed.

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