A measure of art talent.

Meier, Norman C.

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“…The study of individual differences in the appreciation of art and aesthetics began as soon as psychology was applied to education at the turn of the 20th century. Efficient measures of artistic and aesthetic abilities were seen as necessary for testing achievement and for vocational guidance (Burt, , ; Meier, , ; Thorndike, , ). Among such measures, aesthetic sensitivity proved to be the best option for its prognostic value and suitability for laboratory research (Meier, ).…”

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A new conception of visual aesthetic sensitivity

Corradi

Chuquichambi

Barrada

et al. 2019

British J of Psychology

138

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Aesthetic sensitivity has been defined as the ability to recognize and appreciate beauty and compositional excellence, and to judge artistic merit according to standards of aesthetic value. The Visual Aesthetic Sensitivity Test (VAST) has often been used to assess this ability, but recent research has revealed it has several psychometric problems. Such problems are not easily remedied, because they reflect flawed assumptions inherent to the concept of aesthetic sensitivity as traditionally understood, and to the VAST itself. We introduce a new conception of aesthetic sensitivity defined as the extent to which someone's aesthetic valuation is influenced by a given feature. Experiment 1 aimed to characterize aesthetic sensitivity to four prominent features in visual aesthetics: complexity, symmetry, contour, and balance. Experiment 2 aimed to replicate the findings of Experiment 1 and to assess the test-retest reliability of an instrument designed to measure aesthetic sensitivity to these features using an abridged set of stimuli. Our results reveal that people differ remarkably in the extent to which visual features influence their liking, highlighting the crucial role of individual variation when modelling aesthetic preferences. We did not find clear relations between the four measures of aesthetic sensitivity and personality, intelligence, and art interest and knowledge. Finally, our measurement instrument exhibited an adequate-to-good test-retest reliability.

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A new conception of visual aesthetic sensitivity

Corradi

Chuquichambi

Barrada

et al. 2019

British J of Psychology

138

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“…The study of individual differences in the appreciation of art and aesthetics began as soon as psychology was applied to education at the turn of the 20th century. Efficient measures of artistic and aesthetic abilities were seen as necessary for testing achievement and for vocational guidance (Burt, 1924(Burt, , 1933Meier, 1927Meier, , 1928Thorndike, 1916Thorndike, , 1917.…”

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“…Among such measures, aesthetic sensitivity proved to be the best option for its prognostic value and suitability for laboratory research (Meier, 1928). Meier (1927Meier ( , 1928 found that aesthetic sensitivity, "the ability to recognize compositional excellence in representative artsituations, or the ability to 'sense' quality (beauty?) in an aesthetic organization" (Meier, 1928, p. 185), was the most efficient and predictive measure of artistic ability.…”

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Corradi, Chuquichambi, Barrada, Clemente, & Nadal. (2019). A New Conception of Visual Aesthetic Sensitivity

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Aesthetic sensitivity has been defined as the ability to recognize and appreciate beauty and compositional excellence, and to judge artistic merit according to standards of aesthetic value. The Visual Aesthetic Sensitivity Test (VAST) has often been used to assess this ability, but recent research has revealed it has several psychometric problems. Such problems are not easily remedied, because they reflect flawed assumptions inherent to the concept of aesthetic sensitivity as traditionally understood, and to the VAST itself. We introduce a new conception of aesthetic sensitivity defined as the extent to which someone’s aesthetic valuation is influenced by a given feature. Experiment 1 aimed to characterize aesthetic sensitivity to four prominent features in visual aesthetics: complexity, symmetry, contour, and balance. Experiment 2 aimed to replicate the findings of Experiment 1, and to assess the test–retest reliability of an instrument designed to measure aesthetic sensitivity to these features using an abridged set of stimuli. Our results reveal that people differ remarkably in the extent to which visual features influence their liking, highlighting the crucial role of individual variation when modeling aesthetic preferences. We did not find clear relations between the four measures of aesthetic sensitivity and personality, intelligence, and art interest and knowledge. Finally, our measurement instrument exhibited an adequate to good test–retest reliability.

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“…In an essay published in Volume 8 of the University of Iowa Studies in Psychology, Glenn Merry (1922) would analyze voice inflection in speech by using Seashore's tonoscope to measure vocal variation in a collection of phonograph records of famous speeches. In University of Iowa Studies in Psychology, Volume 12, an issue commemorating Seashore's work after he became a dean and stepped down from his editorship, Norman Meier (1928) introduced a test of art talent similar to tests of musical talent that Seashore had already developed. This test would ask students to make observations about particular works of art, and then use these observations to quantify their basic sense of visual form.…”

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Not Just Your Average Beauty: Carl Seashore and the History of Communication Research in the United States

Malin

2011

Communication Theory

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This article argues for the relevance of the work of Carl Seashore to the history of communication research in the United States. A psychologist at the University of Iowa in the early 20th century, Seashore's laboratory took up questions regarding the psychology of music and art with direct relevance to communication studies and influenced such important figures as Wilbur Schramm and Kurt Lewin. Exploring this history offers a more robust picture of the history of experimental communication research in the United States and provides an important corrective to contemporary histories of the field.

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A measure of art talent.

Cited by 30 publications

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A new conception of visual aesthetic sensitivity

A new conception of visual aesthetic sensitivity

Corradi, Chuquichambi, Barrada, Clemente, & Nadal. (2019). A New Conception of Visual Aesthetic Sensitivity

Not Just Your Average Beauty: Carl Seashore and the History of Communication Research in the United States

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Not Just Your Average Beauty: Carl Seashore and the History of Communication Research in the United States

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