Social Factors in Aesthetics: Social Conformity Pressure and a Sense of Being Watched Affect Aesthetic Judgments
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- Autoren
- Vera M Hesslinger
- Claus-Christian Carbon
- Heiko Hecht
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- DOI
- 10.1177/2041669517736322
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- Clarivate Analytics Document Solution ID: FN2MS
- PubMed Identifier: 29201336
- ISSN
- 2041-6695
- Ausgabe der Veröffentlichung
- 6
- Zeitschrift
- I-PERCEPTION
- Schlüsselwörter
- eyespots
- aesthetic judgments
- conformity
- social factors
- empirical aesthetics
- Artikelnummer
- ARTN 2041669517736322
- Datum der Veröffentlichung
- 2017
- Status
- Published
- Titel
- Social Factors in Aesthetics: Social Conformity Pressure and a Sense of Being Watched Affect Aesthetic Judgments
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- Ausgabe der Zeitschrift
- 8
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- Autoren
- Vera M Hesslinger
- Claus-Christian Carbon
- Heiko Hecht
- DOI
- 10.1177/2041669517736322
- eISSN
- 2041-6695
- ISSN
- 2041-6695
- Ausgabe der Veröffentlichung
- 6
- Zeitschrift
- i-Perception
- Sprache
- en
- Online publication date
- 2017
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- 204166951773632 - 204166951773632
- Datum der Veröffentlichung
- 2017
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- Published
- Herausgeber
- SAGE Publications
- Herausgeber URL
- http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2041669517736322
- Datum der Datenerfassung
- 2018
- Titel
- Social Factors in Aesthetics: Social Conformity Pressure and a Sense of Being Watched Affect Aesthetic Judgments
- Ausgabe der Zeitschrift
- 8
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- Abstract
- The present study is a first attempt to experimentally test the impact of two specific social factors, namely social conformity pressure and a sense of being watched, on participants' judgments of the artistic quality of aesthetic objects. We manipulated conformity pressure with a test form in which a photograph of each stimulus was presented together with unanimously low (downward pressure) or high quality ratings (upward pressure) of three would-be previous raters. Participants' sense of being watched was manipulated by testing each of them in two settings, one of which contained an eyespots stimulus. Both social factors significantly affected the participants' judgments-unexpectedly, however, with conformity pressure only working in the downward direction and eyespots leading to an overall downward shift in participants' judgments. Our findings indicate the relevance of including explicit and implicit social factors in aesthetics research, thus also reminding us of the limitations of overly reductionist approaches to investigating aesthetic perception and experience.
- Addresses
- Abteilung Allgemeine Experimentelle Psychologie, University of Mainz, Germany.
- Autoren
- Vera M Hesslinger
- Claus-Christian Carbon
- Heiko Hecht
- DOI
- 10.1177/2041669517736322
- eISSN
- 2041-6695
- Externe Identifier
- PubMed Identifier: 29201336
- PubMed Central ID: PMC5697602
- Open access
- true
- ISSN
- 2041-6695
- Ausgabe der Veröffentlichung
- 6
- Zeitschrift
- i-Perception
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- eng
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- Online publication date
- 2017
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- Paginierung
- 2041669517736322
- Datum der Veröffentlichung
- 2017
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- Published
- Publisher licence
- CC BY
- Datum der Datenerfassung
- 2017
- Titel
- Social Factors in Aesthetics: Social Conformity Pressure and a Sense of Being Watched Affect Aesthetic Judgments.
- Sub types
- research-article
- Journal Article
- Ausgabe der Zeitschrift
- 8
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- Abstract
- The present study is a first attempt to experimentally test the impact of two specific social factors, namely social conformity pressure and a sense of being watched, on participants' judgments of the artistic quality of aesthetic objects. We manipulated conformity pressure with a test form in which a photograph of each stimulus was presented together with unanimously low (downward pressure) or high quality ratings (upward pressure) of three would-be previous raters. Participants' sense of being watched was manipulated by testing each of them in two settings, one of which contained an eyespots stimulus. Both social factors significantly affected the participants' judgments-unexpectedly, however, with conformity pressure only working in the downward direction and eyespots leading to an overall downward shift in participants' judgments. Our findings indicate the relevance of including explicit and implicit social factors in aesthetics research, thus also reminding us of the limitations of overly reductionist approaches to investigating aesthetic perception and experience.
- Autoren
- Vera M Hesslinger
- Claus-Christian Carbon
- Heiko Hecht
- Autoren-URL
- https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29201336
- DOI
- 10.1177/2041669517736322
- Externe Identifier
- PubMed Central ID: PMC5697602
- ISSN
- 2041-6695
- Ausgabe der Veröffentlichung
- 6
- Zeitschrift
- Iperception
- Schlüsselwörter
- aesthetic judgments
- conformity
- empirical aesthetics
- eyespots
- social factors
- Sprache
- eng
- Country
- United States
- Paginierung
- 2041669517736322
- PII
- 10.1177_2041669517736322
- Datum der Veröffentlichung
- 2017
- Status
- Published online
- Titel
- Social Factors in Aesthetics: Social Conformity Pressure and a Sense of Being Watched Affect Aesthetic Judgments.
- Sub types
- Journal Article
- Ausgabe der Zeitschrift
- 8
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