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Educational Psychology
An International Journal of Experimental Educational Psychology
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The effects of different drawing materials on children’s drawings of positive and negative human figures

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Pages 459-479 | Received 17 May 2010, Accepted 01 Mar 2011, Published online: 31 May 2011

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