Cross-cultural empirical aesthetics

Che, Jiajia; Sun, Xiaolei; Gallardo, Victor; Nadal, Marcos

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“…In order to be meaningful and useful, the construct of aesthetic sensitivity needs to be redefined and brought in line with established psychological and neuroscientific knowledge. A meaningful and useful notion of aesthetic sensitivity should provide information about the different manners in which people construct their aesthetic experiences, and the different extents to which people respond to certain sensory features, and acknowledge the role of experience, knowledge, context, and culture (Che, Sun, Gallardo, & Nadal, 2018;Jacobsen, 2006). The only way forward, thus, is to discard the notion of aesthetic sensitivity as an innate, unalterable, and general ability to appreciate objective beauty, and to accept that the VAST only provides a measure of the ability to discriminate figures according to a specific understanding of harmony (Gear, 1986).…”

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A new conception of visual aesthetic sensitivity

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British J of Psychology

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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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“…Others have noted that certain theoretical ideas that combine earlier intuitions about taste, with novel interests in objective factors relating to aesthetic appreciation and artistic ability such as Burt and Eysenck's notion of aesthetic sensitivity, start to take off after 1920 (Che, Sun, Gallardo, & Nadal, 2018;Corradi, Chuquichambi, Barrada, Clemente, & Nadal, 2019).…”

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Visualizing Aesthetics Across Two Centuries

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Empirical Studies of the Arts

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Empirical aesthetics is associated with two research questions: How the mind generally assigns value to sensory stimuli and how it responds specifically to art objects. Researchers have debated whether these phenomena share enough to warrant being collapsed into a single field. To ask how these particular questions came to be associated with aesthetics, we conducted Google Ngram analyses over a corpus of books spanning two centuries. Analyses trace the frequency of "big questions" about art and beauty, and how the term aesthetic appears relative to other concepts. Results indicate the 19th century was dominated by notions of beauty and an aesthetic sense. Questions about art and aesthetic experience become more frequent during the 20th century. Results are interpreted with respect to associated affective and evaluative concepts, art movements, and scientific debates. Understanding how aesthetics is used over time can cast light on the ways current work is being conceived and pursued.

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“…In order to be meaningful and useful, the construct of aesthetic sensitivity needs to be re-defined and brought in line with established psychological and neuroscientific knowledge. A meaningful and useful notion of aesthetic sensitivity should provide information about the different manners in which people construct their aesthetic experiences, and the different extents to which people respond to certain sensory features, and acknowledge the role of experience, knowledge, context, and culture (Che, Sun, Gallardo, & Nadal, 2018;Jacobsen, 2006). The only way forward, thus, is to discard the notion of aesthetic sensitivity as an innate, unalterable, and general ability to appreciate objective beauty, and to accept that the VAST only provides a measure of the ability to discriminate figures according to a specific understanding of harmony (Gear, 1986).…”

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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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Cross-cultural empirical aesthetics

Cited by 57 publications

References 80 publications

A new conception of visual aesthetic sensitivity

A new conception of visual aesthetic sensitivity

Visualizing Aesthetics Across Two Centuries

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

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

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