Evaluating Abstract Art: Relation between Term Usage, Subjective Ratings, Image Properties and Personality Traits.
Evaluating Abstract Art: Relation between Term Usage, Subjective Ratings, Image Properties and Personality Traits.
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DOI：
10.3389/fpsyg.2016.00973
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发表时间：
2016
影响因子：
3.8
通讯作者：
Hayn-Leichsenring GU
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作者：
Lyssenko N;Redies C;Hayn-Leichsenring GU
实验美学的主要挑战之一是实验中使用的术语的不确定性。在这项研究中，我们记录了参与者自发使用的术语来描述抽象艺术品，并研究了它们与同一艺术品的二阶统计图像属性的关系（实验1）。我们发现，一些结构描述术语的使用频率与统计图像属性相关，如PHOG自相似性，各向异性和复杂性。此外，情感相关的术语与测量的颜色值相关。接下来，根据最常用的术语，我们创建了五个不同的评级量表（实验2），并获得了这些量表上的抽象画的参与者的评级。我们发现描述性评分之间存在显著相关性（例如，在结构和主观复杂性之间），在评价性和描述性得分等级之间（例如，在偏好和主观复杂性/兴趣之间）以及在描述性得分等级和统计图像属性之间（例如，兴趣和PHOG之间的自相似性，复杂性和各向异性）。此外，我们还确定了“大五量表”中描述的参与者的性格特征，并将其与个人参与者的评分和偏好相关联。与神经质得分较低的参与者相比，神经质得分较高的参与者表现出对客观上更复杂的图像的偏好，以及对复杂一词的不同概念。总之，这项研究表明，客观测量的图像属性和参与者用来描述或评估抽象艺术品的主观术语之间存在关联。此外，我们的研究结果表明，抽象艺术品的描述，他们的评价和参与者对其低层次统计特性的偏好与人格特质有关。
One of the major challenges in experimental aesthetics is the uncertainty of the terminology used in experiments. In this study, we recorded terms that are spontaneously used by participants to describe abstract artworks and studied their relation to the second-order statistical image properties of the same artworks (Experiment 1). We found that the usage frequency of some structure-describing terms correlates with statistical image properties, such as PHOG Self-Similarity, Anisotropy and Complexity. Additionally, emotion-associated terms correlate with measured color values. Next, based on the most frequently used terms, we created five different rating scales (Experiment 2) and obtained ratings of participants for the abstract paintings on these scales. We found significant correlations between descriptive score ratings (e.g., between structure and subjective complexity), between evaluative and descriptive score ratings (e.g., between preference and subjective complexity/interest) and between descriptive score ratings and statistical image properties (e.g., between interest and PHOG Self-Similarity, Complexity and Anisotropy). Additionally, we determined the participants’ personality traits as described in the ‘Big Five Inventory’ and correlated them with the ratings and preferences of individual participants. Participants with higher scores for Neuroticism showed preferences for objectively more complex images, as well as a different notion of the term complex when compared with participants with lower scores for Neuroticism. In conclusion, this study demonstrates an association between objectively measured image properties and the subjective terms that participants use to describe or evaluate abstract artworks. Moreover, our results suggest that the description of abstract artworks, their evaluation and the preference of participants for their low-level statistical properties are linked to personality traits.