Aesthetic appreciation of pictures partly depends on the perceptual balance of their elements. This relation has also been supported by objective measures predicting balance ratings as well as preference. Gershoni and Hochstein, however, applied these measures to Japanese calligraphies and failed to find such a relation, which questions the generality of these balance concepts. In our first experiment, we, therefore, tried to replicate these results with a slightly different method. In addition, we calculated further balance measures and collected liking ratings. As result, perceptual balance was again uncorrelated with the measures and with liking. In a second experiment, participants assessed the perceptual stability of the calligraphies, which was considered as alternative concept of balance, and their prototypicality. After discounting the effects of prototypicality on liking, there were correlations between liking and stability and between liking and one of the balance measures. However, the correlations were reliable only for atypical calligraphies.

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日本书法的平衡性，原型性和审美性之间的关系

图片的审美欣赏部分取决于图片元素的感性平衡。这种关系还得到了预测余额等级和偏好的客观指标的支持。然而，格绍尼和霍赫施泰因将这些方法应用于日本书法，却未能找到这种关系，这对这些平衡概念的普遍性提出了质疑。因此，在第一个实验中，我们尝试使用略有不同的方法来复制这些结果。此外，我们还计算了更多的平衡指标并收集了喜欢的评级。结果，知觉平衡又与措施和喜好无关。在第二个实验中，参与者评估了书法的感知稳定性（被视为平衡的替代概念）以及原型。除去原型性对喜好的影响后，喜好与稳定性之间，以及喜好与平衡措施之一之间存在相关性。但是，这种关联仅对于非典型书法是可靠的。