Pub Date : 2025-01-20DOI: 10.1177/02762374251314647
Ahmet Yasin Şenyurt, Bedirhan Gültepe, Elvan Kiremitçi Canıöz
This research investigates the influence of being a painter and intellectuality on mate preferences. Two studies were conducted to explore the relationships between being a painter and mate preferences. Study 1 analyzed 192 participants who rated painters, ideal partners, and themselves using a set of adjectives. Results revealed significant correlations between the cognitive abilities attributed to painters and the desirable traits sought in an ideal partner, particularly among women. Consequently, the second study focused exclusively on female participants and considered intellectuality as a broad, overarching concept. Study 2 focused on 150 female participants and used a between-subjects design to manipulate the target's occupation (painter vs. civil servant) and intellectuality (high vs. low). Findings showed an interaction effect, indicating that low intellectual-civil servant condition was the least preferred. These studies suggest that intellectuality is a key factor in the appeal of painters, particularly for women.
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Pub Date : 2025-01-17DOI: 10.1177/02762374241308810
Nicola Di Stefano, Alessandro Ansani, Andrea Schiavio, Suvi Saarikallio, Charles Spence
Several studies have investigated crossmodal associations involving audiovisual stimuli. To date, however, far fewer studies have explored the relationship between musical timbre and visual features (e.g., soft/harsh timbres with blue/red colours). To fill this gap in the literature, 249 participants were invited to judge the match between different coloured images and musical excerpts. The images depicted seven characters from Saint-Saëns’ “Carnival of the Animals”; the audio stimuli consisted of the music the composer created to represent each character. To test the effect of timbre and culture, the audio stimuli were presented either in the original orchestral version or in the piano transcription, while the participants were recruited from various countries, encompassing both Western and non-Western nationalities. The results demonstrate that timbre influences crossmodal associations between musical excerpts and drawings, while these associations remain consistent across cultures, languages, and levels of musical background.
{"title":"Audiovisual Associations in Saint-Saëns’ Carnival of the Animals: A Cross-Cultural Investigation on the Role of Timbre","authors":"Nicola Di Stefano, Alessandro Ansani, Andrea Schiavio, Suvi Saarikallio, Charles Spence","doi":"10.1177/02762374241308810","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/02762374241308810","url":null,"abstract":"Several studies have investigated crossmodal associations involving audiovisual stimuli. To date, however, far fewer studies have explored the relationship between musical timbre and visual features (e.g., soft/harsh timbres with blue/red colours). To fill this gap in the literature, 249 participants were invited to judge the match between different coloured images and musical excerpts. The images depicted seven characters from Saint-Saëns’ “Carnival of the Animals”; the audio stimuli consisted of the music the composer created to represent each character. To test the effect of timbre and culture, the audio stimuli were presented either in the original orchestral version or in the piano transcription, while the participants were recruited from various countries, encompassing both Western and non-Western nationalities. The results demonstrate that timbre influences crossmodal associations between musical excerpts and drawings, while these associations remain consistent across cultures, languages, and levels of musical background.","PeriodicalId":45870,"journal":{"name":"Empirical Studies of the Arts","volume":"87 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2025-01-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142988486","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
The cultural-match effect on art appreciation refers to a higher aesthetic evaluation of artworks that match the viewers’ cultural background. The present study examines this effect in Western adolescents. We hypothesized longer viewing time (H1) and higher art appreciation (H2) for culturally matching (Western) than mismatching (Eastern) paintings. Representing three age groups (12–13, 14–15, and 16–17 years old), Polish adolescents were tested in a lab. They viewed images of paintings that varied in origin (West vs. East) and time period (historic vs. contemporary), while their viewing time and ratings of art appreciation were obtained. H1 was supported as the participants viewed culturally matching paintings for longer. H2 was partially supported as the cultural-match effect interacted with time period and age group. H2 was supported within historic paintings and mainly among the oldest age group. Hence, the cultural-match effect among adolescents might not generalize to contemporary art.
{"title":"The Cultural-Match Effect on Art Appreciation in Adolescents","authors":"Magdalena Szubielska, Robbie Ho, Natalia Kopiś-Posiej","doi":"10.1177/02762374241308812","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/02762374241308812","url":null,"abstract":"The cultural-match effect on art appreciation refers to a higher aesthetic evaluation of artworks that match the viewers’ cultural background. The present study examines this effect in Western adolescents. We hypothesized longer viewing time (H1) and higher art appreciation (H2) for culturally matching (Western) than mismatching (Eastern) paintings. Representing three age groups (12–13, 14–15, and 16–17 years old), Polish adolescents were tested in a lab. They viewed images of paintings that varied in origin (West vs. East) and time period (historic vs. contemporary), while their viewing time and ratings of art appreciation were obtained. H1 was supported as the participants viewed culturally matching paintings for longer. H2 was partially supported as the cultural-match effect interacted with time period and age group. H2 was supported within historic paintings and mainly among the oldest age group. Hence, the cultural-match effect among adolescents might not generalize to contemporary art.","PeriodicalId":45870,"journal":{"name":"Empirical Studies of the Arts","volume":"49 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2025-01-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142986709","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2025-01-15DOI: 10.1177/02762374241308807
Alessandro Ansani, Friederike Koehler, Lisa Giombini, Matias Hämäläinen, Chen Meng, Marco Marini, Suvi Saarikallio
Contextual information can shape the aesthetic judgements of music compositions. Recently, a study proposed the existence of an AI composer bias; namely, listeners tend to like music less when they think (or are told) that it was composed by an AI. In this online study ( N = 120), we used a cross-over experimental design to verify whether such bias extends to audiovisual music performance. The participants rated three videos of classic piano music performances in two versions with identical audio: one with a professional pianist who pretended to play, and one with the piano playing automatically, allegedly thanks to an AI. As hypothesised, the participants rated the performances as more likeable, engaging, higher in emotional valence, and of higher quality when the pieces were “performed” by the pianist. Notably, these effects were insensitive to the participants’ musical expertise but moderated by their attitudes toward AI. Interestingly, when asked what differences they had found between the two renditions, the participants confabulated about differences in rhythm, tempo variations, dynamics, and dissonances, pointing to underlying psychological processes, such as expectations and beliefs about humanness. Implications for Aesthetics and the Psychology of Art are discussed.
{"title":"AI Performer Bias: Listeners Like Music Less When They Think it was Performed by an AI","authors":"Alessandro Ansani, Friederike Koehler, Lisa Giombini, Matias Hämäläinen, Chen Meng, Marco Marini, Suvi Saarikallio","doi":"10.1177/02762374241308807","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/02762374241308807","url":null,"abstract":"Contextual information can shape the aesthetic judgements of music compositions. Recently, a study proposed the existence of an AI composer bias; namely, listeners tend to like music less when they think (or are told) that it was composed by an AI. In this online study ( N = 120), we used a cross-over experimental design to verify whether such bias extends to audiovisual music performance. The participants rated three videos of classic piano music performances in two versions with identical audio: one with a professional pianist who pretended to play, and one with the piano playing automatically, allegedly thanks to an AI. As hypothesised, the participants rated the performances as more likeable, engaging, higher in emotional valence, and of higher quality when the pieces were “performed” by the pianist. Notably, these effects were insensitive to the participants’ musical expertise but moderated by their attitudes toward AI. Interestingly, when asked what differences they had found between the two renditions, the participants confabulated about differences in rhythm, tempo variations, dynamics, and dissonances, pointing to underlying psychological processes, such as expectations and beliefs about humanness. Implications for Aesthetics and the Psychology of Art are discussed.","PeriodicalId":45870,"journal":{"name":"Empirical Studies of the Arts","volume":"49 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2025-01-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142986710","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2025-01-13DOI: 10.1177/02762374241309878
Katherine N. Cotter, Christa T. Mahlobo, Brittany Smith, Suzannah Niepold, Adam Rizzo, James O. Pawelski
We aimed to impact social connectedness and perspective taking using visual art-based psychoeducational materials and skill-building exercises. Participants ( N = 381) were assigned to one of three conditions. Within the perspective taking condition, people took different viewpoints when viewing art. Within the social connection condition, people considered how art can help in reflecting on their relationships. Within the art education control, people focused on structural elements when viewing art. People completed 4 virtual gallery visits and measures of empathy, social connection, and loneliness at baseline, following each visit, and one-week post intervention. Participants reported their level of immersion and reflectiveness following each visit. Results suggest the conditions did not show changes one week post intervention; however, there were interesting findings post-visit. First, reflection was highest in the perspective taking condition, and the social connection condition showed increases in reflection across time. Second, the social connection condition showed reductions in loneliness.
{"title":"Examining the Ability of Digital Visual Art Engagement to Cultivate Empathy and Social Connection","authors":"Katherine N. Cotter, Christa T. Mahlobo, Brittany Smith, Suzannah Niepold, Adam Rizzo, James O. Pawelski","doi":"10.1177/02762374241309878","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/02762374241309878","url":null,"abstract":"We aimed to impact social connectedness and perspective taking using visual art-based psychoeducational materials and skill-building exercises. Participants ( N = 381) were assigned to one of three conditions. Within the perspective taking condition, people took different viewpoints when viewing art. Within the social connection condition, people considered how art can help in reflecting on their relationships. Within the art education control, people focused on structural elements when viewing art. People completed 4 virtual gallery visits and measures of empathy, social connection, and loneliness at baseline, following each visit, and one-week post intervention. Participants reported their level of immersion and reflectiveness following each visit. Results suggest the conditions did not show changes one week post intervention; however, there were interesting findings post-visit. First, reflection was highest in the perspective taking condition, and the social connection condition showed increases in reflection across time. Second, the social connection condition showed reductions in loneliness.","PeriodicalId":45870,"journal":{"name":"Empirical Studies of the Arts","volume":"22 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2025-01-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142974559","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2025-01-13DOI: 10.1177/02762374241311881
Pu Meng, Zhuoyue Diao, Xin Meng, Liqun Zhang
The emergence of dynamic digital arts, such as dynamic generative art, has reshaped how aesthetic experiences can be studied, emphasizing their inherently dynamic and evolving nature. Within the framework of computational aesthetics, which seeks to model and quantify human perceptions of beauty, this study extends the focus from static to dynamic stimuli. We investigate the temporal relationship between evolving image features and aesthetic judgments, exploring how dynamic visual properties influence the progression of aesthetic judgments over time. By introducing temporal offsets in the analysis and employing linear and nonlinear statistical models, we examine continuous aesthetic ratings alongside an extensive set of image features. Our findings offer a novel perspective on the enduring impact of image features on aesthetic experience.
{"title":"Evaluating the Temporal Effect of Image Features on Dynamic Aesthetic Experience of Generative art","authors":"Pu Meng, Zhuoyue Diao, Xin Meng, Liqun Zhang","doi":"10.1177/02762374241311881","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/02762374241311881","url":null,"abstract":"The emergence of dynamic digital arts, such as dynamic generative art, has reshaped how aesthetic experiences can be studied, emphasizing their inherently dynamic and evolving nature. Within the framework of computational aesthetics, which seeks to model and quantify human perceptions of beauty, this study extends the focus from static to dynamic stimuli. We investigate the temporal relationship between evolving image features and aesthetic judgments, exploring how dynamic visual properties influence the progression of aesthetic judgments over time. By introducing temporal offsets in the analysis and employing linear and nonlinear statistical models, we examine continuous aesthetic ratings alongside an extensive set of image features. Our findings offer a novel perspective on the enduring impact of image features on aesthetic experience.","PeriodicalId":45870,"journal":{"name":"Empirical Studies of the Arts","volume":"29 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2025-01-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142974560","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2025-01-08DOI: 10.1177/02762374241304299
Héctor G. Gallegos González, Barend van Heusden
The empirical study of the arts would greatly benefit from truly interdisciplinary research. The diverse epistemic perspectives of the main disciplines concerned with researching the artistic experience (humanities, psychology, natural sciences) pose, however, a challenge to their collaboration. Rather than starting from a conceptual definition of art, we take a theoretical, cognitive-semiotic stance, analyzing art as a recursive imaginative sense-making process. This provides us with a clear picture of the multilayered structure of the artistic. As it acknowledges the innate, the learned, and the semiotic dimensions that together are constitutive of the artistic experience, the Cumulative Model for Empirical Research in the Arts, although it does not offer a practical experimental guide, provides a comprehensive theory-based framework that can support cooperation across disciplines in the research of the arts.
{"title":"The Cumulative Model for Empirical Research in the Arts: A Semiotic Answer to the Challenge of Interdisciplinarity","authors":"Héctor G. Gallegos González, Barend van Heusden","doi":"10.1177/02762374241304299","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/02762374241304299","url":null,"abstract":"The empirical study of the arts would greatly benefit from truly interdisciplinary research. The diverse epistemic perspectives of the main disciplines concerned with researching the artistic experience (humanities, psychology, natural sciences) pose, however, a challenge to their collaboration. Rather than starting from a conceptual definition of art, we take a theoretical, cognitive-semiotic stance, analyzing art as a recursive imaginative sense-making process. This provides us with a clear picture of the multilayered structure of the artistic. As it acknowledges the innate, the learned, and the semiotic dimensions that together are constitutive of the artistic experience, the Cumulative Model for Empirical Research in the Arts, although it does not offer a practical experimental guide, provides a comprehensive theory-based framework that can support cooperation across disciplines in the research of the arts.","PeriodicalId":45870,"journal":{"name":"Empirical Studies of the Arts","volume":"14 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2025-01-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142936604","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2024-12-12DOI: 10.1177/02762374241300029
Yizhen Zhou, Hideaki Kawabata
This study explored the relationship between nostalgia and aesthetic evaluations of visual art in the form of landscape paintings. Participants evaluated a hundred different paintings for the level of nostalgia they evoked, their beauty, positive and negative valences, arousal, and familiarity. The results indicated an association between feelings of nostalgia and beauty. Furthermore, nostalgia correlated differently with the positive and negative valences; there was a positive and negative correlation between nostalgia and positive and negative valences, respectively. Positive correlations were also observed between nostalgia and arousal and familiarity. Additionally, the paintings’ intrinsic memorability was assessed and found to have a borderline significant impact on nostalgia ratings. Interestingly, the higher the memorability of a painting, the lower the likelihood of nostalgic feelings occurring. In summation, this study sheds light on the associations between affective and aesthetic experiences using a relatively under-studied medium of triggering nostalgic feelings—paintings.
{"title":"The “Past” is Sweet: An Investigation into the Aesthetic and Affective Experience of Paintings","authors":"Yizhen Zhou, Hideaki Kawabata","doi":"10.1177/02762374241300029","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/02762374241300029","url":null,"abstract":"This study explored the relationship between nostalgia and aesthetic evaluations of visual art in the form of landscape paintings. Participants evaluated a hundred different paintings for the level of nostalgia they evoked, their beauty, positive and negative valences, arousal, and familiarity. The results indicated an association between feelings of nostalgia and beauty. Furthermore, nostalgia correlated differently with the positive and negative valences; there was a positive and negative correlation between nostalgia and positive and negative valences, respectively. Positive correlations were also observed between nostalgia and arousal and familiarity. Additionally, the paintings’ intrinsic memorability was assessed and found to have a borderline significant impact on nostalgia ratings. Interestingly, the higher the memorability of a painting, the lower the likelihood of nostalgic feelings occurring. In summation, this study sheds light on the associations between affective and aesthetic experiences using a relatively under-studied medium of triggering nostalgic feelings—paintings.","PeriodicalId":45870,"journal":{"name":"Empirical Studies of the Arts","volume":"44 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2024-12-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142815611","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2024-12-12DOI: 10.1177/02762374241303266
Susanna Mykoniatis, Kaile Smith, Jennifer E. Drake
There is some evidence that the best strategy for remembering text-based information is drawing when using a mixed list design where participants both draw and write in the same list. There is also some evidence that the memory benefits of drawing are reduced when using a pure list design where participants draw or write in separate lists. In this study ( n = 91), we compared three encoding strategies for recalling a list of scientific terms and their definitions: drawing, paraphrasing, and writing the definitions, and randomly assigned participants to a condition. We also examined individual difference factors that might impact these encoding strategies. We found no difference across conditions. Instead, drawing abilities, working memory, and familiarity for what was to be remembered predicted recall performance. We conclude that more research is needed before declaring a “drawing effect,” since the effect is reduced when using a pure list design.
{"title":"The Drawing Effect: Does Drawing Really Enhance Recall Memory?","authors":"Susanna Mykoniatis, Kaile Smith, Jennifer E. Drake","doi":"10.1177/02762374241303266","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/02762374241303266","url":null,"abstract":"There is some evidence that the best strategy for remembering text-based information is drawing when using a mixed list design where participants both draw and write in the same list. There is also some evidence that the memory benefits of drawing are reduced when using a pure list design where participants draw or write in separate lists. In this study ( n = 91), we compared three encoding strategies for recalling a list of scientific terms and their definitions: drawing, paraphrasing, and writing the definitions, and randomly assigned participants to a condition. We also examined individual difference factors that might impact these encoding strategies. We found no difference across conditions. Instead, drawing abilities, working memory, and familiarity for what was to be remembered predicted recall performance. We conclude that more research is needed before declaring a “drawing effect,” since the effect is reduced when using a pure list design.","PeriodicalId":45870,"journal":{"name":"Empirical Studies of the Arts","volume":"92 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2024-12-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142815629","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2024-12-10DOI: 10.1177/02762374241298878
Margot Dehove, Jan Mikuni, Nikita Podolin, Helmut Leder, Elisabeth Oberzaucher
Art has proven be an asset in maintaining and enhancing our wellbeing. Following a recent field study, the present laboratory investigation assessed whether and to what extent an interaction with art in urban public spaces can positively impact experienced wellbeing. Participants watched videos simulating an interaction with a parking-lot-sized intervention decorated with art, greenery (active control), or nothing (conventional control) in an urban setting. Before and after interacting with each video, participants’ anxiety, stress, positive and negative mood were measured. Subjective experiences of the location and the intervention were also collected. Results showed a unique pattern for the art: (1) while positive mood decreased for both active and conventional controls, it remained stable in the art and (2) exploratory analyses suggested a positive correlation between subjective experiences and wellbeing only for the art. Current results as well as differences and advantages of field and laboratory studies were discussed.
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