Sex Influence in Aesthetic Behavior

Bernard, Yohan

doi:10.2466/pms.1972.34.2.663

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“…• Three different measurements of complexity: Gif ratio, Edge length and the average cell size (average blob size, ABS). • Results support Soueif & Eysenck's (1971: 1972 findings regarding preferences for reflectional and rotational symmetry, and a greater preference for simplicity in Egyptian participants.…”

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A cross-cultural comparison for preference for symmetry: Comparing British and Egyptians non-experts

2017

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The aesthetic appeal of symmetry has been noted and discussed by artists, historians and scientists. To what extent this appeal is universal is a difficult question to answer. From a theoretical perspective, cross-cultural comparisons are important, because similarities would support the universality of the response to symmetry. Some pioneering work has focussed on comparisons between Britain and Egypt (Soueif & Eysenck, 1971, 1972), including both experts and naive subjects. These studies confirmed some degree of universal agreement in preferences for simple abstract symmetry. We revisited this comparison after almost half a century. We compared preferences of naïve students in Egypt (n = 200) and Britain (n= 200) for 6 different classes of symmetry in novel, abstract stimuli. We used three different measurements of complexity: Gif ratio, Edge length and the average cell size (average blob size, ABS). The results support Soueif & Eysenck's findings regarding preferences for reflectional and rotational symmetry, however they also throw new light on a greater preference for simplicity in Egyptian participants already noted by Soueif & Eysenck (1971).

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“…It is possible that there are sex differences in preference for specific symmetries in relation to human judgments of visual art and abstract patterns (see Bernard, 1972;Humphrey, 1997;Johnson & Knapp, 1963). It is also possible that male and female aesthetic judgments for symmetry are based on a difference in perceived complexity.…”

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2017

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“…Previous literature reports gender difference in the appreciation of painting styles, but the direction of this difference is not clear and is not consistently reported. Bernard (1972), for example, found that women are more attracted to impressionist paintings than men, and men are more attracted to "modern paintings" than women. Neperud (1982) found that women showed less preference for artistic patterns than men, whereas men rate figurative, i.e., realistic, and abstract styles more favourably than women (see Polzella, 2000).…”

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Can music be figurative? Exploring the possibility of crossmodal similarities between music and visual arts

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According to both experimental research and common sense, classical music is a better fit for figurative art than jazz. We hypothesize that similar fits may reflect underlying crossmodal structural similarities between music and painting genres. We present two preliminary studies aimed at addressing our hypothesis. Experiment 1 tested the goodness of the fit between two music genres (classical and jazz) and two painting genres (figurative and abstract). Participants were presented with twenty sets of six paintings (three figurative, three abstract) viewed in combination with three sound conditions: 1) silence, 2) classical music, or 3) jazz. While figurative paintings scored higher aesthetic appreciation than abstract ones, a gender effect was also found: the aesthetic appreciation of paintings in male participants was modulated by music genre, whilst music genre did not affect the aesthetic appreciation in female participants. Our results support only in part the notion that classical music enhances the aesthetic appreciation of figurative art. Experiment 2 aimed at testing whether the conceptual categories 'figurative' and 'abstract' can be extended also to music. In session 1, participants were first asked to classify 30 paintings (10 abstract, 10 figurative, 10 ambiguous that could fit either category) as abstract or figurative and then to rate them for pleasantness; in session 2 participants were asked to classify 40 excerpts of music (20 classical, 20 jazz) as abstract or figurative and to rate them for pleasantness. Paintings which were clearly abstract or figurative were all classified accordingly, while the majority of ambiguous paintings were classified as abstract. Results also show a gender effect for painting's pleasantness: female participants rated higher ambiguous and abstract paintings. More interestingly, results show an effect of music genre on classification, showing that it is possible to classify music as figurative or abstract, thus supporting the hypothesis of cross-modal similarities between the two sensory-different artistic expressions.

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“…El estudio que puede considerarse como el más sistemático entre los que buscan los determinantes socioculturales del gusto en materia de pintura, es la investigación llevada a cabo por Bernard (1972), en la que observó y analizó las compras efectuadas por 480 sujetos en una tienda de reproducciones de cuadros, el autor establece una correspondencia entre el contenido de las elecciones y el conjunto de las variables sociales o culturales que pueden caracterizar a cada uno de los sujetos.…”

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El ARS en el estudio y evaluación de metodología para el diseño de productos industriales: Aplicación y perspectiva

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Entre las tendencias actuales en el campo del diseño de productos industriales el Diseño sensorial (DS), presenta importantes implicaciones sociales, ya que responde a la reciente búsqueda de diseñadores e industrias por lograr la adecuación del objeto o sistemas de objetos industriales a las diferentes necesidades y preferencias de los consumidores-usuarios, con el objetivo de conducirlos a la presentación de cualidades funcionales y estéticas que respondan a las diferentes necesidades y preferencias de distintos grupos humanos, optimizando de este modo la interacción usuario-producto. Las herramientas metodológicas que conforman el DS presentan actualmente un conjunto de necesidades de análisis, interpretación y estudio, ligadas a aspectos sociales del diseño de productos industriales, por lo cual se busca dar respuesta a estas necesidades de análisis mediante una herramienta que puede contribuir a su satisfacción: el análisis de redes sociales (ARS).

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Sex Influence in Aesthetic Behavior

Abstract: Two studies of the influence of sex on aesthetic behaviour of art purchasers show significant effects.

Cited by 17 publications

References 7 publications

A cross-cultural comparison for preference for symmetry: Comparing British and Egyptians non-experts

A cross-cultural comparison for preference for symmetry: Comparing British and Egyptians non-experts

Can music be figurative? Exploring the possibility of crossmodal similarities between music and visual arts

El ARS en el estudio y evaluación de metodología para el diseño de productos industriales: Aplicación y perspectiva

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