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Ugliness as a Prototype Category: Cognitive-and-Semantic Analysis [PDF]
RUDN Journal of Language Studies, Semiotics and SemanticsThe study proposes a cognitive-and-semantic approach to the study of the category ‘urodstvo’ (‘ugliness’). This approach allowed, using a component analysis of the meanings of words - denote main lexical representatives of the category of ugliness in the
Anastasia M. Mudrovskaya +2 more
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Unveiling the dual impacts of the aesthetic deficiency of foods on consumers’ purchase intentions [PDF]
Scientific ReportsThe bias of “beauty is good” is prevalent in the consumption field. Products with attractive appearances can enhance consumers’ favor towards the product, gaining a “beauty premium,” while products with aesthetic deficiencies are subjected to a “ugly ...
Yunxi Feng +3 more
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The Possibility of Query about the Ugliness in Kant's Aesthetic Horizon [PDF]
حکمت و فلسفه, 2022 Immanuel Kant's aesthetics in Critique of Judgment has always been the subject of discussions and the discovery of many points about the anatomy of the faculty of Taste and its judgments.
Arsalan Aghakhani +2 more
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Mitigating Inappropriateness in Image Generation: Can there be Value in Reflecting the World's Ugliness? [PDF]
arXiv.org, 2023 Text-conditioned image generation models have recently achieved astonishing results in image quality and text alignment and are consequently employed in a fast-growing number of applications.
Manuel Brack +3 more
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The Lexical Domains of Ugliness and Aesthetic Horror in the Old English Formulaic Style
Atlantis, 2023 Even though as of late there has been a renewed interest in the aesthetic ideals in early Medieval England, the conceptualisation and experience of ugliness in Old English sources has been largely neglected.
Francisco Javier Minaya Gómez
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The language of beauty in African art [PDF]
Journal of Art Historiography, 2023 This book comprises two primary objectives. First, it seeks to curate an extensive exhibition showcasing diverse African art forms sourced from public museums and private collections in the United States and Europe.
Stephen Adéyẹmí Fọlárànmí
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(Neuro)Aesthetics: Beauty, ugliness, and ethics.
PsyCh Journal, 2021 The objective of this essay is a holistic view of aesthetics, ethics, and neuroaesthetics. After a few introductory case studies, aesthetics is systematically introduced as a philosophical subdiscipline.
Philip Dietrich, Thomas Knieper
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THE MYTHONYMS AS THE STANDARDS OF UGLINESS AND BEAUTY [PDF]
Езиков свят, 2023 The article solves the problem of the functioning of mythonyms as the standards of a beautiful and ugly person in the Russian linguistic world picture.
Zifa TEMIRGAZINA, Ol'ga ANDRYUSHCHENKO
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Experiences of Ugliness in Nature and Urban environments
Empirical Studies of the Arts, 2021 In folk psychology experiences of ugliness are associated with the negation of beauty and disorder, but empirical evidence is remarkably rare. Here, participants (called informed) took 102 photographs of ugly landscapes and urban scenes and reflected on ...
F. Felisberti
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Review of Economics and Statistics, 2006 Using data from three waves of Add Health we find that being very attractive reduces a young adult's (ages 18-26) propensity for criminal activity and being unattractive increases it for a number of crimes, ranging from burglary to selling drugs. A variety of tests demonstrate that this result is not because beauty is acting as a proxy for socio ...
Mocan, Naci, Tekin, Erdal
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