A Cross-Cultural Comparison of Aesthetic Preferences for Neatly Organized Compositions: Native Chinese- Versus Native Dutch-Speaking Samples ...

Do aesthetic preferences for images of neatly organized compositions (e.g., images collected on blogs like Things Organized Neatly © ) generalize across cultures? In an earlier study, focusing on stimulus and personal properties related to order and complexity, Western participants indicated their preference for one of two simultaneously presented images (100 pairs). In the current study, we compared the data of the native Dutch-speaking participants from this earlier sample ( N = 356) to newly collected data from a native Chinese-speaking sample ( N = 220). Overall, aesthetic preferences were... Mehr ...

Verfasser: Van Geert, Eline
Ding, Rong
Wagemans, Johan
Dokumenttyp: Datenquelle
Erscheinungsdatum: 2024
Verlag/Hrsg.: SAGE Journals
Schlagwörter: Cultural Studies not elsewhere classified
Sprache: unknown
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Link(s) : https://dx.doi.org/10.25384/sage.c.7188913.v1

Do aesthetic preferences for images of neatly organized compositions (e.g., images collected on blogs like Things Organized Neatly © ) generalize across cultures? In an earlier study, focusing on stimulus and personal properties related to order and complexity, Western participants indicated their preference for one of two simultaneously presented images (100 pairs). In the current study, we compared the data of the native Dutch-speaking participants from this earlier sample ( N = 356) to newly collected data from a native Chinese-speaking sample ( N = 220). Overall, aesthetic preferences were quite similar across cultures. When relating preferences for each sample to ratings of order, complexity, soothingness, and fascination collected from a Western, mainly Dutch-speaking sample, the results hint at a cross-culturally consistent preference for images that Western participants rate as more ordered, but a cross-culturally diverse relation between preferences and complexity. ...