Abstract:: Miyashita, Kimura, & Oka (2017) demonstrated that openness in the big-five personality traits did not relate to aesthetic evaluations of paintings while the aesthetic dimension of value did. Conversely, previous studies showed that openness affects preferences for specific artistic paintings after predicting general preferences as a latent variable. Thus, the present study explored whether openness would affect aesthetic evaluation of paintings via mediating variable (i.e., aesthetic dimension of value). In… Show more
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