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TRAINING IN ART AS A FACTOR IN THE DETERMINATION OF PREFERENCE JUDGEMENTS FOR POLYGONS
Author(s) -
EYSENCK H. J.,
CASTLE MAUREEN
Publication year - 1970
Publication title -
british journal of psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.536
H-Index - 92
eISSN - 2044-8295
pISSN - 0007-1269
DOI - 10.1111/j.2044-8295.1970.tb02802.x
Subject(s) - psychology , neuroticism , extraversion and introversion , preference , value (mathematics) , factor (programming language) , fine art , predictive value , social psychology , big five personality traits , personality , visual arts , art , statistics , mathematics , medicine , computer science , programming language
Ninety polygons were rated for their aesthetic value by 369 male and 408 female art students, and by 176 male and 180 female non‐art students. Factor analyses of the resulting rankings were carried out for the art and non‐art groups separately, and the resulting factors and superfactors compared. Most of the factors were similar for the two groups. Artists preferred simple polygons, non‐artists complex ones. For the majority of polygons preferences were rather similar; removing the most extreme 16 simple and 16 complex items produces a correlation between mean artist and non‐artist judgements of 0·92. Birkhoff's formula has little predictive value, although it correlates slightly better with the artists' than with the non‐artists' rankings. Artists were higher on neuroticism than non‐artists, but did not differ from them on extraversion.