Incompleteness, aesthetic sensitivity, and the obsessive-compulsive need for symmetry

Summerfeldt, Laura J.; Gilbert, Shaun J.; Reynolds, Michael

doi:10.1016/j.jbtep.2015.03.006

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“…Unfortunately, even though the authors briefly mention the history of aesthetic sensitivity research, they largely attack the ability approach of aesthetic sensitivity by attacking Eysenck's claims. Despite significant contributions to the field, the ability conception predates and postdates Eysenck, as several analogous tests existed before Eysenck (e.g., Thorndike, 1916)some of them are still in use (e.g., Summerfeldt, Gilbert, & Reynolds, 2015). Further, the commonly used construct definition was provided by Child (1964), not Eysenck.…”

Section: Bad Measures Do Not Imply Bad Constructsmentioning

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Commentary on Corradi et al.’s (2019) new conception of aesthetic sensitivity: Is the ability conception dead?

Myszkowski

Çelik

Storme

2020

British J of Psychology

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Corradi et al. (British Journal of Psychology, 2019) argue that their new conception of visual aesthetic sensitivity (as responsiveness to aesthetic features in one's preferences) presents several advantages in comparison with the current ability view of aesthetic sensitivity, usually defined as the ability to judge aesthetic stimuli in accordance with standards (The Journal of Psychology, 1964, 57 and 49). Although the measure they propose is interesting and presents advances to the field, we point to important issues. Notably, the authors conveniently base their comparison between the two conceptions on psychometric double standards, discard a century of research on aesthetic sensitivity by focusing on Eysenck's speculations, and disguise an extension of already existing aesthetic preference tests (e.g., The Journal of Psychology, 1952, 33 and 199; Empirical Studies of the Arts, 2005, 23 and 165) as a redefinition of aesthetic sensitivity. We conclude that both aesthetic preference and aesthetic sensitivity research are legitimate objects of study, that the authors present interesting ideas to further the study of aesthetic preferences, but that their approach is not new and that its proposed renaming only adds confusion to the field.

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Section: Bad Measures Do Not Imply Bad Constructsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Commentary on Corradi et al.’s (2019) new conception of aesthetic sensitivity: Is the ability conception dead?

Myszkowski

Çelik

Storme

2020

British J of Psychology

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“…Among what were designed as pure “T” measures, the Design Judgment Test (Graves, 1948 ) and the Visual Aesthetic Sensitivity Test (Götz, 1985 ) have been, because of their psychometrical qualities, the most heavily used (Chamorro-Premuzic and Furnham, 2004 ; Furnham and Chamorro-Premuzic, 2004 ; Myszkowski et al, 2014 ; Summerfeldt et al, 2015 ). However, “T” measures are restricted by their content (Gear, 1986 ).…”

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Individual Differences in Aesthetic Ability: The Case for an Aesthetic Quotient

Myszkowski

2016

Front. Psychol.

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“…Patients with OCD are thought to experience an inflated sense of responsibility that derives from an exaggerated estimation of unimportant situations as unsafe, resulting in excessive neutralizing behavior aimed at harm avoidance [22] . According to this theory, "overresponsibility" generates a problem in decision-making, with OCD patients requiring more evidence to decide that a task has been completed properly [23,24] . These mechanisms may explain the excess of additions, corrections and repetitions that appear also in harmless tasks which are considered unsafe in the eyes of the patients.…”

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“…Another limitation of the study is the fact that differences between the addition scores and the different OCD symptom groups as measured by the OCI score were not compared. Currently, there is an intensive discussion about the heterogeneity of OCD along the dimensions of incompleteness experience versus harm avoidance, and many dissimilarities and similarities between these 2 dimensions have been demonstrated [23,24,27,28] . It is likely that one subtype of patients is inclined to excessive addition, whereas the other subtype has no such inclination.…”

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Nonfunctional Redundant Acts Characterize OCD, Even in OCD-Unrelated Tasks: A Demonstration in Questionnaire Completion

Amitai

Arnon²,

Shaham³

et al. 2017

Psychopathology

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Background: Ethological methods used to analyze human obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) rituals demonstrated excess of unnecessary repetitions as well as irrelevant, idiosyncratic acts (additions) compared to normal activity. A question that still remains is whether these well-known repetitions and additions are manifested in behaviors unrelated to the OCD rituals. Our objectives were to: (1) assess whether OCD-related repetitions and additions as found in previous studies also affect the patients' activity of filling out questionnaires and (2) evaluate the specificity of these behaviors to OCD as opposed to other anxiety disorders and healthy controls. Sampling and Methods: Several standardized disorder-specific self-report questionnaires were used in order to assess the patient's psychopathologies. The style of filling-out these questionnaires by OCD and non-OCD anxiety outpatients and normal controls was analyzed. Four categories were used: omissions, repetitions, corrections, and additions. Results: The OCD group scored significantly higher on the number of additions as compared with both the anxiety group and the nonclinical group, and significantly higher on the number of corrections and repetitions as compared with the nonclinical group. Conclusions: The hallmarks of OCD, repetitions and additions, are manifested not only in the patient's rituals and thoughts, but in apparently “neutral” tasks that do not a priori involve the intrusive thoughts, urges, and images typical of obsessive-compulsive behavior. Additions seem to be more specific to OCD than repetitions. These two executive faults impede routine functionality of OCD patients in tasks related and unrelated to their rituals. Our study delineates simple, observable behavioral characteristics that distinguish between OCD and non-OCD anxiety patients as well as healthy individuals. These symptomatic behaviors may offer a clue to personality traits or deficits in executive functions that possibly play a part in the pathophysiology of OCD. Our results are an additional indication that nonfunctionality in obsessive-compulsive behavior deserves full attention for a better understanding of the psychopathological mechanisms of OCD.

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Incompleteness, aesthetic sensitivity, and the obsessive-compulsive need for symmetry

Cited by 22 publications

References 75 publications

Commentary on Corradi et al.’s (2019) new conception of aesthetic sensitivity: Is the ability conception dead?

Commentary on Corradi et al.’s (2019) new conception of aesthetic sensitivity: Is the ability conception dead?

Individual Differences in Aesthetic Ability: The Case for an Aesthetic Quotient

Nonfunctional Redundant Acts Characterize OCD, Even in OCD-Unrelated Tasks: A Demonstration in Questionnaire Completion

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