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Aesthetic Choice in the Age of Ecological Awareness
2023Abstract In this chapter, I discuss how environmentally conscious aesthetic values become explicit in the form of preferences and concrete choices in everyday situations in which one is able to choose between two or more equally accessible alternatives.
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Unity and the Golden Section: Rules for Aesthetic Choice?
The American Journal of Psychology, 1991Simple geometric figures were divided internally into two parts; the resulting area-to-area divisions were used to evaluate the aesthetic appeal of the unity (1:1) and golden section (1.618:1) ratios, among others. Three experiments incorporated a variety of figures and each utilized a different method (a multiple-choice procedure, a production method,
Susan T. Davis, John C. Jahnke
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On the Role of Choice in Aesthetic Education
Journal of Aesthetic Education, 1968Nevertheless, the fact that we do admit some virtue to these questions suggests that choice must have at least a subsidiary role to play in what it is that we do with works of art. I shall try to establish the role of choice in the realm of aesthetics because I believe that showing what can be expected of it and what cannot must inevitably suggest ...
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Early aesthetic choices: Infant preferences for attractive premature infant faces
International Journal of Behavioral Development, 2003Previous studies have shown that when newborn and young infants are shown attractive and unattractive adult faces they will look longer at the attractive faces. Three studies with infants ranging from 5 months to 15 months were conducted to examine whether this attractiveness effect holds for infants looking at infant faces.
Mike Van Duuren +2 more
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Smile Aesthetics in relation to bracket choice
2014Aim: The aesthetics of the frontal view of a smile are of serious importance to the final outcome of an orthodontic treatment. In a first part of this study the aims are to explore if there is conformity between eight different orthodontists concerning the type of bracket choice, where to find potential differences and lastly if cephalometric ...
Kuppens, Enya +3 more
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The Relationship Between Aesthetic Choices, Ratings, and Eye-Movements
2018A previous study found that looking time is related to aesthetic choices, but not internally determined preferences [1]. The purpose of the current study is to expand on these findings by generalizing them to realistic environmental stimuli. In the choice task coupled with eye-tracking, participants chose the office design that was aesthetically more ...
Elif Celikors, Chris R. Sims
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Culture, choice, necessity: A political critique of Bourdieu's aesthetic
Poetics, 2011Abstract This paper takes Bourdieu's account of the working-class choice of the necessary as a strategic route into a set of theoretical and methodological shortcomings in his interpretation of the relations between class and culture. These shortcomings – ranging across his sampling procedures, questionnaire design and interpretation of survey data ...
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New era writers: aesthetic choices and the generation gap
Social Sciences in China, 2009从20世纪90年代开始，“代际差别”越来越突出地体现在新时期50、60和70年代 出生的三个重要作家群中。他们不仅在叙事内容上表现为宏大叙事和使命意识的不断 弱化、个人化意愿的不断增强；还在叙事形式上体现为或崇尚写实风格，或追求现代 手法，或迷恋于碎片化细节等不同的审美特质，同时也折射了各自不同的审美观念。 从文化人类学的角度看，这种代际差别实际隐含了不同历史文化语境和成长记忆对人 类精神的潜在规约。代际差别虽然是多元文学格局的一种表现，但是，如何加强代际 间的精神交流，有效克服代际内部各自的局限性，同样是促进中国当代文学健康发展 的一个不可忽略的重要方面。 关键词: 代际差别 宏大叙事 个人化 文化记忆 代际交流 Since the 1990s, the generation gap among ...
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Authoritarianism and Aesthetic Choice
The Journal of Social Psychology, 1957B. G. Rosenberg, Carl N. Zimet
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