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Ego defense and aesthetic distortion: experimenter effects 1
Author(s) -
Machotka Pavel
Publication year - 1970
Publication title -
journal of personality
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.082
H-Index - 144
eISSN - 1467-6494
pISSN - 0022-3506
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-6494.1970.tb00029.x
Subject(s) - psychology , object (grammar) , personality , id, ego and super ego , arousal , social psychology , anxiety , representation (politics) , value (mathematics) , cognitive psychology , developmental psychology , philosophy , linguistics , machine learning , psychiatry , politics , political science , computer science , law
S ummary The “arousal‐control” hypothesis of aesthetic representation states that the greater the arousal value of an object, the greater the degree of disguise required before a representation of the object can be called aesthetic Four studies were conducted to find the personality correlates of subjects who by their behavior support the hypothesis A strong experimenter effect was discovered in two male‐run studies, supporters of the hypothesis were sensitizers, while in the two female‐run studies, supporters were repressors Evidence suggests that the differences may be attributed to the degree of homosexual anxiety evoked in the subjects