Context Effects on Beauty Ratings of Painted Artworks: Contrast, Contrast, Everywhere!

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dc.contributor.advisorBodner, Glen
dc.contributor.advisorPexman, Penny
dc.contributor.advisorIaria, Giuseppe
dc.contributor.authorTousignant, Cody
dc.contributor.committeememberWeinhardt, Justin
dc.contributor.committeememberZellner, Debra
dc.date.accessioned2016-05-03T17:30:19Z
dc.date.available2016-05-03T17:30:19Z
dc.date.issued2016
dc.date.submitted2016en
dc.description.abstractTo explore how context influences the subjective beauty of painted artworks, I presented average-beauty target paintings in the context of either low-beauty or high-beauty context paintings. Experiment 1 also factorially varied whether target and context paintings were of similar or different styles, were presented sequentially or simultaneously, and whether 2 or 10 paintings were rated. Target paintings were consistently deemed more beautiful when presented with low-beauty (vs. high-beauty) context paintings. This contrast effect was not modulated by the other three factors. In Experiments 2a-c, context beauty again yielded contrast effects, even though a variety of methods were used to try to elicit assimilation effects. Experiment 3a-b examined whether the “contrast everywhere” pattern might be due to participants not perceiving target and context paintings as similar. Consistent with that possibility, similarity ratings for context-target pairs were generally low, even though they were higher for similar (vs. different) style targets, and for simultaneous (vs. sequential) presentation. My results provided some support, and some challenges, for a selective accessibility model and a range-frequency model. Critically, both models will need to better specify how similarity is assessed. To better elucidate how context influences stimulus evaluation, I discuss the need to collect independent measures of similarity perception in future research.en_US
dc.identifier.citationTousignant, C. (2016). Context Effects on Beauty Ratings of Painted Artworks: Contrast, Contrast, Everywhere! (Doctoral thesis, University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada). Retrieved from https://prism.ucalgary.ca. doi:10.11575/PRISM/25438en_US
dc.identifier.doihttp://dx.doi.org/10.11575/PRISM/25438
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11023/2946
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisher.facultyArts
dc.publisher.facultyGraduate Studies
dc.publisher.institutionUniversity of Calgaryen
dc.publisher.placeCalgaryen
dc.rightsUniversity of Calgary graduate students retain copyright ownership and moral rights for their thesis. You may use this material in any way that is permitted by the Copyright Act or through licensing that has been assigned to the document. For uses that are not allowable under copyright legislation or licensing, you are required to seek permission.
dc.subjectPsychology--Cognitive
dc.subject.classificationContrasten_US
dc.subject.classificationAssimilationen_US
dc.subject.classificationBeautyen_US
dc.subject.classificationpaintingen_US
dc.subject.classificationRatingen_US
dc.subject.classificationContexten_US
dc.subject.classificationJudgmenten_US
dc.titleContext Effects on Beauty Ratings of Painted Artworks: Contrast, Contrast, Everywhere!
dc.typedoctoral thesis
thesis.degree.disciplinePsychology
thesis.degree.grantorUniversity of Calgary
thesis.degree.nameDoctor of Philosophy (PhD)
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