Grumpy Toddlers and Dead Pheasants: Visual Art Preferences Are Predicted by Preferences for the Depicted Objects
Grumpy Toddlers and Dead Pheasants: Visual Art Preferences Are Predicted by Preferences for the Depicted Objects
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DOI：
10.1037/aca0000240
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发表时间：
2020-05-01
影响因子：
3.6
通讯作者：
Sherman, Aleksandra
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作者：
Levitan, Carmel A.;Winfield, Emily C.;Sherman, Aleksandra
先前的研究已经证明，颜色偏好是由对与这些颜色相关联的对象的偏好驱动的（例如，天空是蓝色的或粪便是棕色的会影响对蓝色和棕色的偏好; Palmer &施洛斯，2010年）。我们将这项工作扩展到视觉艺术，询问主题是否引导视觉艺术偏好。在三个阶段中，不同的参与者（1）标记具有显著关联的绘画，（2）评价他们对绘画和先前生成的对象标签的偏好。以及（3）评价对象标签对每幅画作的代表性，从而使我们能够计算反映对象在每幅画作中的重要性的权重。我们的初步结果表明，绘画偏好与对象偏好密切相关。此外，个人的对象偏好更好地预测绘画偏好比组平均的对象偏好。我们的工作表明，尽管艺术偏好似乎是主观的，但主题对偏好的形成有重要影响。
Prior research has demonstrated that color preferences are driven by preferences for objects associated with those colors (e.g., that the sky is blue or that feces are brown influences preferences for blue and brown; Palmer & Schloss, 2010). We extended this work to visual art, asking whether subject matter guides visual art preferences. Across three phases, different groups of participants (1) tagged paintings with salient associations, (2) rated their preferences for paintings and for previously generated object-tags. and (3) rated how well the object-tags represented each painting, allowing us to compute weights reflecting objects' importance within each painting. Our primary result demonstrates that painting preferences are strongly correlated to object preferences. Furthermore, individual object preferences better predicted painting preferences than did group-averaged object preferences. Our work demonstrates that, despite the seeming subjectivity of art preferences, subject matter significantly influences the formation of preferences.