How do we teach emotions? Representation in Children’s Textbooks and Literature
With Anjali Adukia, Matthew Bonci, Emileigh Harrison, Jake Nicoll, and Teodora Szasz.
Abstract: Emotional intelligence is a key component of human capital, shaped in part by the educational materials children consume. These materials send messages about the emotional reactions that are and are not socially appropriate. In this study, we apply natural language processing and computer vision tools to examine the emotional representations conveyed in the text and images of influential educational materials: public school elementary textbooks and award winning children’s literature. Our analysis reveals a stark mismatch between the emotions children read about and the ones they see in images. We find that textual context exposes children to a diverse emotional landscape, including happiness, sadness, anger, and calm, all with relatively balanced frequency. In contrast, pictured characters overwhelmingly display happiness and calm, while ``negatively’’ valenced emotions rarely appear. This pattern persists across time, genre categories, and demographic subgroups in our corpus. Using individual-level book purchases and library inventory data, we provide evidence that the overrepresentation of happy and calm emotions in visual content reflect supply-side responses to consumer preferences.
The Migration Phenomenon in Informal Housing Settlements: Challenges for Urban Public Policies in Chile
With Ray Anderson, Florencia Vergara, Ignacio Silva, Paz Zuñiga, and Pia Palacios (Spanish)
DOI: 10.7764/plan.051.113
The Common Rationality of Liberalism and Science through the Feminist Lens
With Cristóbal Bellolio (Spanish)
https://doi.org/10.29393/At526-5RCDB20005
Towards a New Dawn: Trajectories of Exclusion of Women Living in Informal Housing Settlements in Chile
With Florencia Vergara, Paz Zuñiga, and Pia Palacios (Spanish)
The Growing Problem of Housing Affordability in Chile
With Ray Anderson (Spanish)
Quantitative Housing Deficit in Chile
With Pia Palacios (Spanish)