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The Death of the Author: The Case of art Market Empirical Studies of the Arts (IF 1.5) Pub Date : 2024-09-09 Arsenii Pimenov, Valeria Kolycheva, Alexander Semenov, Dmitry Grigoriev
Recent evidence suggests that the artwork of an experienced artist is usually more expensive than that of a beginner. Additionally, the artwork of a man is often more expensive than that of a woman, and a painting is typically more expensive than graphics. However, this research aims to contrast the influence of the author's age and sex on the price with the influence of the artwork's material and
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The Effects of Titles on the Aesthetic Evaluation of Japanese Poetry Empirical Studies of the Arts (IF 1.5) Pub Date : 2024-08-26 Shodai Maruyama, Tomohiro Ishizu
The present study tested the effect of title type on the aesthetic evaluation of Japanese poetry. Ninety participants read a Japanese poem presented with either a “descriptive” title, an “elaborative” title, or no title. Participants then gave ratings according to their aesthetic experiences on the poem. The results revealed that the title type significantly influenced the readers’ aesthetic evaluations
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“Awful Skinny Boys” – Male Musical Theatre Performers’ Experiences of Body Image: A Reflexive Thematic Analysis Empirical Studies of the Arts (IF 1.5) Pub Date : 2024-08-22 Maria E. Carr, Elisa G. Lewis
Body dissatisfaction is likely to be particularly salient in aesthetically focused professions, including the performing arts. However, there is a paucity of research involving male theatre performers. This study addressed this omission by exploring how male musical theatre actors experience body image. Interviews were conducted with 7 male performers and analysed using reflexive thematic analysis
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What Makes People High in Openness to Experience Happy? The Mediating Effect of Arts Engagement Empirical Studies of the Arts (IF 1.5) Pub Date : 2024-08-09 Maria Manolika, Thomas Jacobsen
Openness to experience is one of the least studied traits in relation to subjective well-being, despite its potential as a resource that enables flourishing. In this study, we therefore focused on this particular trait and examined whether its relation to subjective well-being is explained by receptive (Studies 1 and 2) and participatory arts engagement (Study 2) using data from the GESIS Panel ( N
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Gaze Preferences to Male Contrapposto and Non-Contrapposto Postures Empirical Studies of the Arts (IF 1.5) Pub Date : 2024-07-26 Farid Pazhoohi, Oliver Lee Jacobs, Alan Kingstone
Contrapposto, an asymmetrical twisting of the hips and shoulders, has historically been associated with beauty and aesthetics in art. While the impact of a female contrapposto posture on perception of attractiveness and visual attention has been studied, its effects on males remain understudied. The current research aims to explore whether contrapposto postures in men influence perceptions of attractiveness
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Artists on Climate Change: Their Intended Impact and Audiences Empirical Studies of the Arts (IF 1.5) Pub Date : 2024-07-21 Ulrike Hahn, Pauwke Berkers
There is a high interest in art's change potential towards sustainability. Yet, there is still a lot unknown about this change potential, including from the perspective of artists themselves. The research questions, thus, are: Do artists who create climate-related art have goals and target audiences regarding their climate-related work? If so, which goals and audiences do they aim for, and why? 30
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How Context and Painting Attributes Affect Aesthetic Judgment Across Expertise Empirical Studies of the Arts (IF 1.5) Pub Date : 2024-07-21 Qin Li
Using a digital environment, this study tested how setting (museum vs. street), reputation (established vs. unestablished), and style (abstract vs. representational) affected people's aesthetic perception of art. Art novices, quasi-experts, and experts were randomly assigned to rate paintings that varied in setting, reputation, and style. Although there was no significant main effect of setting, follow-up
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Aesthetic Production in Clay Molding: Mental and Dynamically Embodied Action Mediate Between Formal and Material Aspects of Experience Empirical Studies of the Arts (IF 1.5) Pub Date : 2024-05-31 Johannes Wagemann, Sarah Starosky
Aesthetic production, that is, the processing of material with a focus on the experiential and formal qualities of resulting objects and the process itself, encompasses basic dimensions of art, creativity, craft, and design. To explore these dimensions, we propose the Rubicon model of action phases as a general framework. Additionally, we introduce Schiller's aesthetics as an interactive account of
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Understanding Musical Beauty Empirical Studies of the Arts (IF 1.5) Pub Date : 2024-05-17 Abbigail Marie Fleckenstein, Jonna Katariina Vuoskoski, Nicola Dibben
An exploratory study was conducted investigating the concept of beauty related to music listening—“musical beauty.” The study implemented an online qualitative questionnaire aimed to evaluate how listeners construe the concept of beauty, the pieces of music considered to be beautiful, and the intrinsic and/or extrinsic features that listeners attribute to musical pieces being considered as “most beautiful
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Is There a Timeless Truth for Good Arrangement of Paintings in Art Galleries and Museums? An Experimental Investigation of the Barnes Collection Empirical Studies of the Arts (IF 1.5) Pub Date : 2024-05-09 Katja Thömmes, Ronald Hübner, Gregor U. Hayn-Leichsenring
The Barnes Foundation is a traditional art collection and it is one of a kind as for the assorted hanging of the paintings. The sophisticated wall compositions by Albert Barnes were created as a tool for art education, and they have not been altered since 1951. Today, we are interested whether Barnes’ taste withstood the test of time. We asked participants in an online study to create their own hangings
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Aesthetic Dispositions, Aesthetic Engagement, and Meaning in Life Empirical Studies of the Arts (IF 1.5) Pub Date : 2024-04-22 Joshua A. Wilt, Julie J. Exline, Rebecca J. Schlegel, Aleksandra Sherman
Previous research revealed that meaning in life is related positively to psychological engagement with art (i.e., aesthetic engagement), such as interest in art, knowledge about art, awe around art, and supernatural attributions for art experiences. We extended this work by considering the relevance of dispositions toward aesthetics (i.e., aesthetic dispositions), such as openness to experience, creativity
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A Cross-Cultural Comparison of Aesthetic Preferences for Neatly Organized Compositions: Native Chinese- Versus Native Dutch-Speaking Samples Empirical Studies of the Arts (IF 1.5) Pub Date : 2024-04-17 Eline Van Geert, Rong Ding, Johan Wagemans
Do aesthetic preferences for images of neatly organized compositions (e.g., images collected on blogs like Things Organized Neatly©) generalize across cultures? In an earlier study, focusing on stimulus and personal properties related to order and complexity, Western participants indicated their preference for one of two simultaneously presented images (100 pairs). In the current study, we compared
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Interdisciplinary Art Learning Through Artistic Digital Game-Based Learning (DGBL): Evaluating Learning Outcomes and Processes Among Science and Engineering Students Empirical Studies of the Arts (IF 1.5) Pub Date : 2024-04-16 SiBo Zhou, Norfarizah Mohd Bakhir
The field of interdisciplinary art education, particularly through digital game-based learning, lacks empirical research on the art learning process and the competencies gained along the process. To address this research gap, this study collects data through experiment and post-experiment interviews from 20 science and engineering college students who participated in a 1-month digital game-based art
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Emotional Responses to Music: The Essential Inclusion of Emotion Adaptability and Situational Context Empirical Studies of the Arts (IF 1.5) Pub Date : 2024-04-08 Marco Susino, William Forde Thompson, Emery Schubert, Mary Broughton
The link between music and emotion, as articulated from a cognitive perspective, assumes that music carries expressive cues that convey or induce emotional responses in listeners. Studies following this paradigm often investigate how responses converge or diverge among individuals, social groups, and cultures. However, results vary from one study to another, with few satisfactory explanations as to
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Unpacking the Antecedents of Word of Mouth and Electronic Word of Mouth in the Opera Sector: A Multimethodological Study Based on PLS and NCA Empirical Studies of the Arts (IF 1.5) Pub Date : 2024-04-04 Yacine Ouazzani, Haydeé Calderón-García, Berta Tubillejas-Andrés
This article examines the role of epistemic value, and social value on behavioral intentions and the relationship between these three factors as antecedents of word of mouth (WOM) and electronic word of mouth (eWOM) in the opera sector. The effects of these antecedents are investigated using a multimethod approach combining partial least square and necessary condition analysis. A quantitative study
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Music Preferences and Their Associations With Uses of Music and Personality Factors and Facets Empirical Studies of the Arts (IF 1.5) Pub Date : 2024-03-18 Ana Butković, Valnea Žauhar
In this study, we examined the associations between music preferences, uses of music and personality factors and facets. The sample included 449 participants (50% female, M = 23.59, SD = 2.14) who indicated preferences for international and regional music styles that were classified into Reflective and Complex, Intense and Rebellious, Upbeat and Conventional, Energetic and Rhythmic, and Regional preferences
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Bullshit (Sometimes) Makes the Art (Slightly) More Attractive: A Field Study in Gallery-Goers Empirical Studies of the Arts (IF 1.5) Pub Date : 2024-03-13 Arkadiusz Urbanek, Anna Borkowska, Wojciech Milczarski, Jarosław Zagrobelny, Jerzy Luty, Michał Białek
Vague, impressive language used in descriptions (bullshit) is thought to make art seem more profound and valuable to the viewer. We studied the effect during art exhibitions in real-life gallery-goers who saw paintings of four artists, each with either simplified, neutral, or bullshitty description. We crafted a typical description of each painting, which we later manipulated in terms of language.
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Some Effects of Sex and Culture on Creativity, No Effect of Incubation Empirical Studies of the Arts (IF 1.5) Pub Date : 2024-03-07 Nastaran Kazemian, Khatereh Borhani, Soroosh Golbabaei, Julia F. Christensen
Results remain mixed regarding the effects of incubation tasks on divergent thinking, a type of creativity, generally assessed via the Unusual Uses Task (UUT). Using a within-subjects design, we compared 64 participants’ performance on the UUT, after four different incubation tasks: copy a simple painting, copy a complex painting, 0-back-task, and rest. We hypothesized that an arts-related activity
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A Phenomenological Microgenesis of Art Experience: A Qualitative Study of Zero Mass by Eric Orr Empirical Studies of the Arts (IF 1.5) Pub Date : 2024-02-05 Bjarne Sode Funch, Stella Theodoraki
The aim of this study is to provide a phenomenological description of the art experience and by doing so, explaining why art is generally associated with an emotional response, but talked about in cognitive terms. The study is based on a microgenetic experiment in which the informants, prior to an interview, encounter a work of art by the American artist Eric Orr. The work consists of a pitch-black
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Wikipedia and Shostakovich Meets Goya: Elaborative Narration and Music Enhance Affect Derived From Art Empirical Studies of the Arts (IF 1.5) Pub Date : 2023-04-24 Can Özger, Naseem Choudhury
We sought to understand the common interaction between music, information and visual art. The evoked affect of college students (N = 47, F = 35, M = 11, NB = 1) were measured via The Implicit Posit...
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Everyday Life vs Art: Effects of Framing on the Mode of Object Interpretation Empirical Studies of the Arts (IF 1.5) Pub Date : 2023-04-20 Marina Iosifyan, Judith Wolfe
Everyday objects have often been used in contemporary art since Marcel Duchamp introduced the concept of the ready-made. However, it is not clear how everyday objects are perceived in art contexts ...
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Do Prestige and Animacy Matter to Art Experts? Exploring Social Learning, Signaling, Perceptual, and Cognitive Explanations Empirical Studies of the Arts (IF 1.5) Pub Date : 2023-04-11 Jan Verpooten, Sarah Delcourt, Siegfried Dewitte
Art experts generally perceive, process, and appreciate artworks differently from non-experts. Here we explored whether animacy of the content and prestige of the context of artworks matter to expe...
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On the Complexity of Literary and Popular Fiction Empirical Studies of the Arts (IF 1.5) Pub Date : 2023-04-04 Emanuele Castano, Jessica Zanella, Fatemeh Saedi, Lisa Zunshine, Luca Ducceschi
Research findings in cognitive literary studies show that lifetime exposure to literary versus popular fiction has a differential association with social cognition processes such as psychological e...
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Detection of Emotions in Artworks Using a Convolutional Neural Network Trained on Non-Artistic Images: A Methodology to Reduce the Cross-Depiction Problem Empirical Studies of the Arts (IF 1.5) Pub Date : 2023-03-16 César González-Martín, Miguel Carrasco, Thomas Gustavo Wachter Wielandt
This research is framed within the study of automatic recognition of emotions in artworks, proposing a methodology to improve performance in detecting emotions when a network is trained with an ima...
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The Aesthetic Emotion Lexicon: A Literature Review of Emotion Words Used by Researchers to Describe Aesthetic Experiences Empirical Studies of the Arts (IF 1.5) Pub Date : 2023-03-13 Emery Schubert
The emotions that can be considered members of the set of Aesthetic Emotions (AEs) is controversial. The present study investigated the terms used by researchers in peer reviewed studies to exempli...
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How Do We Move in Front of Art? How Does This Relate to Art Experience? Linking Movement, Eye Tracking, Emotion, and Evaluations in a Gallery-Like Setting Empirical Studies of the Arts (IF 1.5) Pub Date : 2023-03-13 Corinna Kühnapfel, Joerg Fingerhut, Hanna Brinkman, Victoria Ganster, Takumi Tanaka, Eva Specker, Jan Mikuni, Florian Güldenpfennig, Andreas Gartus, Raphael Rosenberg, Matthew Pelowski
Embodied cognition claims that how we move our body is central for experience. Exploring dimensions of bodily engagement should, therefore, also be central for engaging art. However, little attenti...
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Comparison of Audiovisual Components of Dance in Novices and Experts’ Aesthetic Interest Perceptions Empirical Studies of the Arts (IF 1.5) Pub Date : 2023-03-07 Jeehyun Joung, Jeounghoon Kim
Aesthetic appreciation of dance is associated with external components of physical features and audiences’ subjective aspects, which can be explained by cross-modal integration. In this study, we d...
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The Influence of Demographic Factors on Word Usage in Texts Written About Artworks Empirical Studies of the Arts (IF 1.5) Pub Date : 2023-02-27 Hyung J. Ahn
Research on text analysis has demonstrated that texts can reveal various characteristics of individuals, such as personality, preferences, or future behavior. However, despite its numerous applicat...
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Comparing the Perception of In-Person and Digital Monitor Viewing of Paintings Empirical Studies of the Arts (IF 1.5) Pub Date : 2023-02-27 Eugene Han
In the context of rapidly developing technologies and widespread online access, it is important to understand how our perception of images on a computer screen may vary from traditional in-person e...
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A Trade-off Between the Artistic Aesthetic Value and Market Value of Paintings With Naïve and Childlike Interest Complex Empirical Studies of the Arts (IF 1.5) Pub Date : 2023-02-22 Can Ma, Xiaowei Dong, Junbin Wang
This study investigated whether there are any pathways by combining the five dimensions (i.e., naïve image, imagination, story, interestingness, artistry) of the painting with naïve and childlike i...
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Exploring the Evidence-Based Driving Factors of Innovation in Arts and Cultural Organizations Empirical Studies of the Arts (IF 1.5) Pub Date : 2023-02-16 Chuan Li, Vicente Coll-Serrano, Pau Rausell-Köster
Innovation in arts and cultural sectors is an emerging study. Exploring and identifying driving factors of innovation by arts and cultural organizations can help to understand the implications for ...
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“Listening” to Paintings: Synergetic Effect of a Cross-Modal Experience on Subjective Perception Empirical Studies of the Arts (IF 1.5) Pub Date : 2023-02-13 Atara Isaacson, Amichay Assis, Esther Adi-Japha
This mixed-methods study focused on cross-modal change in perception of paintings, by coupling them with related musical pieces. 120 participants were assessed using an online form, distributed via...
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The Effect of Music Classes Conducted in Northern Cypriot Schools with the Kodály Approach on the Musical Development of Students: A Pilot Study Empirical Studies of the Arts (IF 1.5) Pub Date : 2023-02-12 Neriman Soykunt, Sibel Çoban, Emine Kıvanç Öztuğ
The purpose of this research is to examine the effects of music classes conducted with the Kodály approach on the musical development of students. The research was carried out with the mixed method...
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Clustering the Raagas of Sankari Sangeet—A Computational Approach Empirical Studies of the Arts (IF 1.5) Pub Date : 2023-02-01 Krishnarjun Bora, Manash Pratim Barman, Arnab N. Patowary
Raaga is the heart of Indian Classical Music. A raaga is an arrangement of 12 notes in the octave. Like Indian classical music, Sankari Sangeets which are composed 500 years ago are also based on r...
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The Effects of Psychotic Tendencies on Aesthetic Preferences of Paintings Empirical Studies of the Arts (IF 1.5) Pub Date : 2022-12-18 Ivan Z. Stojilović
This study examined the effects of psychotic tendencies on aesthetic preferences for paintings. Although psychotic tendencies and related phenomena are often associated with creative achievements, ...
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Three Forms of Tears at Art Museums: A Phenomenological Study of Viewers’ Tear-Shedding Experiences Through Blog Narratives Empirical Studies of the Arts (IF 1.5) Pub Date : 2022-12-12 Dooiee Kim
This study proposed that viewers’ experiential accounts of shedding tears in art museums in their blog narratives can help understand the distinctive characteristics of the tear-shedding experience...
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Creators Matter. Perception and Pricing of Art Made by Human, Cyborgs and Humanoid Robots Empirical Studies of the Arts (IF 1.5) Pub Date : 2022-12-09 Paweł Fortuna, Artur Modliński, Monika McNeill
Not only does the art market include human and nonhuman creators, it also incorporates technologically augmented artists, called cyborgs. They use wearables, sensors, chips, and even new organs to ...
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Can Fashion Aesthetics be Studied Empirically? the Preference Structure of Everyday Clothing Choices Empirical Studies of the Arts (IF 1.5) Pub Date : 2022-12-06 Young-Jin Hur, Nancy L. Etcoff, Emmanuel S. Silva
Despite fashion being one of the most common and accessible aesthetic activities in everyday life, very few empirical studies of clothing selection and preferences exist. To address this empirical ...
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An Evaluation of Reputation Using Online Auction Data for a Group of American Watercolorists Empirical Studies of the Arts (IF 1.5) Pub Date : 2022-12-05 Michael John Zickar, Brent Stevenor
To understand the relation between artistic reputation and sales prices from popular online auction sites, we analyzed over 3,000 online auction sales of 87 American artists who had expertise in wa...
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The Curation of Music Discovery: The Presentation of Unfamiliar Classical Music on Radio, Digital Playlists and Concert Programmes Empirical Studies of the Arts (IF 1.5) Pub Date : 2022-09-25 Simon Chambers
The way in which platforms curate and assemble the music they present plays an important role in mediating fields of artistic practice to audiences. The different curatorial logics of platforms hel...
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Attractive People Make Better Music? How Gender and Perceived Attractiveness Affect the Evaluation of Electronic Dance Music Artists Empirical Studies of the Arts (IF 1.5) Pub Date : 2022-08-15 Julian Schaap, Michaël Berghman, Thomas Calkins
We employ a cognitive sociological perspective to empirically assess how the evaluation of music fragments – electronic dance music (EDM) in particular – is affected by the perceived attractiveness...
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Examining Facebook Groups Engaging in Reading Experiences: The Interactive Therapeutic Process Perspective Empirical Studies of the Arts (IF 1.5) Pub Date : 2022-08-09 Tali Gazit, Hadar Mass, Jenny Bronstein
Recent years have witnessed a growth in women’s reading clubs on social media platforms such as Facebook. Using the theoretical framework of Interactive Therapeutic Process, this study examines the...
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Flourishing Aims of Art Museums: A Survey of Art Museum Professionals Empirical Studies of the Arts (IF 1.5) Pub Date : 2022-08-04 Katherine N. Cotter, Damien L. Crone, James O. Pawelski
People visit art museums for many reasons—to see something beautiful or famous, to learn more about art, or to experience a sense of awe. Recently, there has been increased interest in how art muse...
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Can the Arts Cure Pandemic Hearts? - Cultural Activity During the COVID-19 Pandemic and its Consequences for Psychological Well-Being Empirical Studies of the Arts (IF 1.5) Pub Date : 2022-06-16 Karina Aylin Gotthardt, Katrin Rakoczy, Miles Tallon, Matthias Seitz, Ulrich Frick
Cultural activities might serve as a buffer to the negative effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on mental health. Frequencies of participants’ cultural activities in terms of participation in digital ...
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Quantitative Analysis of Visual Representation of Sign Elements in COVID-19 Context Empirical Studies of the Arts (IF 1.5) Pub Date : 2022-05-29 María Jesús Cano-Martínez, Miguel Carrasco, Joaquín Sandoval, César González-Martín
Visual representation as a means of communication uses elements to build a narrative. We propose using computer analysis to perform a quantitative analysis of the elements used in the visual creati...
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Narrativity and Literariness Affect the Aesthetic Attitude in Text Reading Empirical Studies of the Arts (IF 1.5) Pub Date : 2022-04-27 Lena Wimmer, Layla El-Salahi, Hon W. J. Lee, Heather J. Ferguson
We report two pre-registered experiments investigating some of the conditions under which readers focus on aesthetically relevant object properties in text processing. Experiment 1 (N = 159) tested...
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Probing the Extremes of Aesthetics: The Role of Typicality and Novelty in the Aesthetic Preference of Industrial Boilers Empirical Studies of the Arts (IF 1.5) Pub Date : 2022-04-21 Safia Najwa Suhaimi, Blair Kuys, Deirdre Barron, Nuoya Li, Zainurul Rahman, Allan Whitfield
There is a long history of humans attempting to understand what drives aesthetic preference. One line of inquiry examines the effects of typicality and novelty on aesthetic responses to designed pr...
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The Relations of Empathy and Gender to Aesthetic Response and Aesthetic Inference of Visual Artworks Empirical Studies of the Arts (IF 1.5) Pub Date : 2022-04-21 Chantal A. Miller, Ronald Hübner
The relation between empathy and aesthetic experience has been stated early in empirical aesthetics. Aesthetic empathy means the ability to take the perspective of an artwork´s depicted content or ...
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Editorial Empirical Studies of the Arts (IF 1.5) Pub Date : 2022-04-11 Rebecca Chamberlain, Aenne Brielmann
We are delighted to present the July 2022 issue of Empirical Studies of the Arts. We mark this new issue with a change in editorial team. Dr Marcos Nadal is stepping down as editor-in-chief after 5 years at the helm. Under his careful and considered guidance the journal has thrived and its reach has greatly increased, harnessing the growing international interest in empirical approaches to music, and
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Effects of Conceptual Titles on the Aesthetic Appreciation of Artistic Photographs Empirical Studies of the Arts (IF 1.5) Pub Date : 2022-03-11 Gabriela Durán-Barraza, Deepti Ghadiyaram, Mary A. Peterson
Conceptual information is central to the field of artistic photography. Nonetheless, there are very few studies on the matter. Therefore, we investigated whether artist's conceptual titles affected...
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Humans Prefer to See and Imagine Drawing Curved Objects Empirical Studies of the Arts (IF 1.5) Pub Date : 2022-03-01 Erick G. Chuquichambi, Daniela Sarria, Guido B. Corradi, Enric Munar
Lines contribute to the visual experience of drawings. People show a higher preference for curved than sharp angled lines. We studied preference for curvature using drawings of commonly-used objects drawn by design students. We also investigated the relationship of that preference with drawing preference. Experiments 1 and 2 revealed preference for the curved drawings in the laboratory and web-based
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An Aesthetic Model for Popular Illustration Empirical Studies of the Arts (IF 1.5) Pub Date : 2022-02-10 Yen-Ching Lin
Although the aesthetic experience of popular illustrations is frequent in modern life, no scientific research can fully explain its psychological structure so far. This study aims to develop an aesthetic model of perception, affection, and cognition, presenting an aesthetic psychological framework for contemporary popular illustration. Thirty representative illustrations were selected as experimental
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Artist Names as Human Brands: Brand Determinants, Creation and co-Creation Mechanisms Empirical Studies of the Arts (IF 1.5) Pub Date : 2022-01-17 Francesco Angelini, Massimiliano Castellani, Pierpaolo Pattitoni
Considering all transactions related to modern and contemporary visual artists mediated by galleries in Italy between 2007 and 2012, we propose an empirical measure of artist brand and explore its relationship with artist-specific characteristics, such as talent, fame, and popularity, through a structural model. We find that artist brand depends positively on talent, fame, and popularity. Moreover
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Curiosity Emerging From the Perception of Change in Music Empirical Studies of the Arts (IF 1.5) Pub Date : 2021-12-16 Diana Omigie, Jessica Ricci
Music offers a useful opportunity to consider the factors contributing to the experience of curiosity in the context of dynamically changing stimuli. Here, we tested the hypothesis that the perception of change in music triggers curiosity as to how the heard music will unfold. Participants were presented with unfamiliar musical excerpts and asked to provide continuous ratings of their subjective experience
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Drawing and Memory: What is the Content of Children’s Drawings and How Does it Differ From Their Verbal Reports? Empirical Studies of the Arts (IF 1.5) Pub Date : 2021-11-29 Christiana Iordanou, Melissa L. Allen, Lara Warmelink
This study investigated whether the content of children’s drawings of an event changes over three successive interviews about that event. It also assessed whether children recall more details verbally than they draw. Twenty-seven 3- to 6-year old children witnessed a live event which ended with one actor stealing a cuddly toy. They were interviewed about it 1 day, 2 weeks, and 6 months later. At each
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Aesthetic Disposition, Educational Capital, Personality Trait Openness, and Sex: A Study of French High-School Students Empirical Studies of the Arts (IF 1.5) Pub Date : 2021-11-20 Romain Brisson, Renzo Bianchi
Aesthetic disposition has been defined as the propensity to prioritize form over function and to approach any object as potentially valuable from an aesthetic standpoint. In this study, we examined whether and how aesthetic disposition was predicted by educational capital, personality trait openness, and sex. In addition, we investigated the association of educational capital and sex with openness
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Why Do People Visit Art Museums? Examining Visitor Motivations and Visit Outcomes Empirical Studies of the Arts (IF 1.5) Pub Date : 2021-04-26 Katherine N. Cotter, Anna Fekete, Paul J. Silvia
People visit museums with differing motivations. We use Falk’s visitor identity model to examine visitors’ motivations to visit an art museum. We assess (1) the prevalence of different motivation types; (2) how visit motivations and outcomes relate to visit satisfaction and length; and (3) the relation between visit motivations and fulfillment of expectations. We found that (1) visitors most strongly
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Global Saccadic Eye Movements Characterise Artists’ Visual Attention While Drawing Empirical Studies of the Arts (IF 1.5) Pub Date : 2021-03-25 Suhyun Park, Louis Wiliams, Rebecca Chamberlain
Previous research has shown that artists employ flexible attentional strategies during offline perceptual tasks. The current study explored visual processing online, by tracking the eye movements of artists and non-artists (n=65) while they produced representational drawings of photographic stimuli. The findings revealed that it is possible to differentiate artists from non-artists on the basis of
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Dance Across Cultures: Joint Action Aesthetics in Japan and the UK Empirical Studies of the Arts (IF 1.5) Pub Date : 2021-03-23 Ernesto Monroy, Toshie Imada, Noam Sagiv, Guido Orgs
Western European and East Asian cultures show marked differences in aesthetic appreciation of the visual arts. East Asian aesthetics are often associated with a holistic focus on balance and harmony, in contrast to Western aesthetics, which often focus on the expression of the individual. In this study, we examined whether cultural differences also exist in relation to the aesthetics of dance. Japanese
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Experiences of Ugliness in Nature and Urban environments Empirical Studies of the Arts (IF 1.5) Pub Date : 2021-03-17 Fatima M. Felisberti
In folk psychology experiences of ugliness are associated with the negation of beauty and disorder, but empirical evidence is remarkably rare. Here, participants (called informed) took 102 photographs of ugly landscapes and urban scenes and reflected on their experiences. Later, participants naïve to the intentional ugliness in the photographs rated landscapes higher than informed participants. The