Order, complexity, and aesthetic appreciation.

E Van Geert, J Wagemans - … of aesthetics, creativity, and the arts, 2020 - psycnet.apa.org
Which stimulus and person characteristics determine aesthetic appreciation? For many
centuries, philosophers and scientists have been trying to solve this complex puzzle …

Aesthetic emotions and aesthetic people: Openness predicts sensitivity to novelty in the experiences of interest and pleasure

K Fayn, C MacCann, N Tiliopoulos, PJ Silvia - Frontiers in psychology, 2015 - frontiersin.org
There is a stable relationship between the Openness/Intellect domain of personality and
aesthetic engagement. However, neither of these are simple constructs and while the …

[HTML][HTML] Liking versus complexity: Decomposing the inverted U-curve

Y Güçlütürk, RHAH Jacobs, R Lier - Frontiers in human neuroscience, 2016 - frontiersin.org
The relationship between liking and stimulus complexity is commonly reported to follow an
inverted U-curve. However, large individual differences among complexity preferences of …

Experiencing flow while viewing art: Development of the Aesthetic Experience Questionnaire.

DL Wanzer, KP Finley, S Zarian… - Psychology of Aesthetics …, 2020 - psycnet.apa.org
Aesthetic experiences are the attitudes, perceptions, or acts of attention involved with
viewing art. When the viewer is fully engaged, aesthetic experiences are comparable with …

Context matters: Investigating the impact of contextual information on aesthetic appreciation of paintings by Max Ernst and Pablo Picasso.

V Swami - Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts, 2013 - psycnet.apa.org
A small body of work has suggested that understanding and appreciation of artworks are
affected by the presentation of concurrent contextualizing information, such as titular and …

Examining complexity across domains: relating subjective and objective measures of affective environmental scenes, paintings and music

MM Marin, H Leder - PloS one, 2013 - journals.plos.org
Subjective complexity has been found to be related to hedonic measures of preference,
pleasantness and beauty, but there is no consensus about the nature of this relationship in …

Understanding how personality traits, experiences, and attitudes shape negative bias toward AI-generated artworks

S Grassini, M Koivisto - Scientific Reports, 2024 - nature.com
The study primarily aimed to understand whether individual factors could predict how people
perceive and evaluate artworks that are perceived to be produced by AI. Additionally, the …

Does amount of information support aesthetic values?

NM Grzywacz, H Aleem - Frontiers in Neuroscience, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Obtaining information from the world is important for survival. The brain, therefore, has
special mechanisms to extract as much information as possible from sensory stimuli. Hence …

Predicting perceived visual complexity of abstract patterns using computational measures: The influence of mirror symmetry on complexity perception

A Gartus, H Leder - PloS one, 2017 - journals.plos.org
Visual complexity is relevant for many areas ranging from improving usability of technical
displays or websites up to understanding aesthetic experiences. Therefore, many attempts …

Art expertise and the processing of titled abstract art

JW Mullennix, J Robinet - Perception, 2018 - journals.sagepub.com
The effect of art expertise on viewers' processing of titled visual artwork was examined. The
study extended the research of Leder, Carbon, and Ripsas by explicitly selecting art novices …