Bodner, GlenTousignant, Cody2017-12-182017-12-182009Tousignant, C. (2009). Putting beauty in context: the influence of context beauty on beauty ratings (Master's thesis, University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada). Retrieved from https://prism.ucalgary.ca. doi:10.11575/PRISM/3177http://hdl.handle.net/1880/104178Bibliography: p. 41-44[ examined whether attributions of beauty, like attributions of remembering, are influenced by list context. Subjects viewed a context block of low- or high-beauty images before rating the beauty of a critical block of medium-beauty images. Across experiments, I varied the similarity of the context block to the critical block. When the images in each block were of the same subtype (e.g., modern architecture), beauty ratings for the first half of the critical block images were higher after a low-beauty than a high­beauty context. This contrast effect was absent when the context images were of a completely different type (e.g., spring landscapes), but it also occurred when the context images were only of a different subtype ( e.g., classic architecture). This pattern fit a functional account of attributions about subjective experience better than an expectancy­heuristic account. These experiments suggest that a domain-general evaluation process operates in both remembering and classification tasks.vii, 44 leaves : ill. ; 30 cm.engUniversity 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.master thesis10.11575/PRISM/3177