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Aesthetic Preference for Glossy Materials: An Attempted Replication and Extension
The psychology of art and aesthetics has a long-standing interest in how low-level features, such as symmetry, curvature, and color, affect people’s aesthetic experience. Recent research in this tradition suggests that people find glossy, shiny objects and materials more attractive than flat, matte...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8066943/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33810411 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/bs11040044 |
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author | Silvia, Paul J. Rodriguez, Rebekah M. Cotter, Katherine N. Christensen, Alexander P. |
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description | The psychology of art and aesthetics has a long-standing interest in how low-level features, such as symmetry, curvature, and color, affect people’s aesthetic experience. Recent research in this tradition suggests that people find glossy, shiny objects and materials more attractive than flat, matte ones. The present experiment sought to replicate and extend research on the attractiveness of images printed on glossy and flat paper. To control for several possible confounding factors, glossiness was manipulated between-person and varied with methods that held constant factors like weight, color quality, and resolution. To extend past work, we explored art expertise and Openness to Experience as potential moderators. A sample of 100 adults viewed landscape photographs on either high-gloss photo paper or on identical paper in which a flat, matte spray finish had been applied. Ratings of attractiveness showed weak evidence for replication. People rated the glossy pictures as more attractive than the matte ones, but the effect size was small (d = −0.23 [−0.62, 0.16]) and not statistically significant. Attractiveness ratings were significantly moderated, however, by individual differences in the aesthetic appreciation facet of Openness to Experience. When aesthetic appreciation was high, people found the images attractive regardless of condition; when it was low, people strongly preferred the glossy images over the matte ones, thus showing the classic glossiness effect. We conclude with some methodological caveats for future research. |
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spelling | pubmed-80669432021-04-25 Aesthetic Preference for Glossy Materials: An Attempted Replication and Extension Silvia, Paul J. Rodriguez, Rebekah M. Cotter, Katherine N. Christensen, Alexander P. Behav Sci (Basel) Article The psychology of art and aesthetics has a long-standing interest in how low-level features, such as symmetry, curvature, and color, affect people’s aesthetic experience. Recent research in this tradition suggests that people find glossy, shiny objects and materials more attractive than flat, matte ones. The present experiment sought to replicate and extend research on the attractiveness of images printed on glossy and flat paper. To control for several possible confounding factors, glossiness was manipulated between-person and varied with methods that held constant factors like weight, color quality, and resolution. To extend past work, we explored art expertise and Openness to Experience as potential moderators. A sample of 100 adults viewed landscape photographs on either high-gloss photo paper or on identical paper in which a flat, matte spray finish had been applied. Ratings of attractiveness showed weak evidence for replication. People rated the glossy pictures as more attractive than the matte ones, but the effect size was small (d = −0.23 [−0.62, 0.16]) and not statistically significant. Attractiveness ratings were significantly moderated, however, by individual differences in the aesthetic appreciation facet of Openness to Experience. When aesthetic appreciation was high, people found the images attractive regardless of condition; when it was low, people strongly preferred the glossy images over the matte ones, thus showing the classic glossiness effect. We conclude with some methodological caveats for future research. MDPI 2021-03-26 /pmc/articles/PMC8066943/ /pubmed/33810411 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/bs11040044 Text en © 2021 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) ). |
spellingShingle | Article Silvia, Paul J. Rodriguez, Rebekah M. Cotter, Katherine N. Christensen, Alexander P. Aesthetic Preference for Glossy Materials: An Attempted Replication and Extension |
title | Aesthetic Preference for Glossy Materials: An Attempted Replication and Extension |
title_full | Aesthetic Preference for Glossy Materials: An Attempted Replication and Extension |
title_fullStr | Aesthetic Preference for Glossy Materials: An Attempted Replication and Extension |
title_full_unstemmed | Aesthetic Preference for Glossy Materials: An Attempted Replication and Extension |
title_short | Aesthetic Preference for Glossy Materials: An Attempted Replication and Extension |
title_sort | aesthetic preference for glossy materials: an attempted replication and extension |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8066943/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33810411 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/bs11040044 |
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