Questions tagged [aesthetics]
For questions on the value placed on certain sensory stimuli, usually those of art, beauty, and taste.
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Is There Any Evidence that People Prefer Just Intonation
In music, it's common to hear the refrain that people like harmonics (notes played at frequencies that are rational multiples of one another) the most out of different combinations of notes (at least ...
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Do people prefer simple colours?
To start off with, I am not a psychologist, nor do I know very much about it beyond behavioural economics.
A long time ago I decided to find my exact favourite colour. I knew it would be a yellow, so ...
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Aesthetic pleasure hormone or neurotransmitter
When a human watched a beautiful painting, a beautiful animation, sees a beautiful nature scene what hormone or neurotransmitter is produced in the organism that he feels the aesthetic pleasure?
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What keywords to learn more about sense pleasing?
The article What Makes Something Aesthetically Pleasing? | Simple Minded lists some way to pleasing your senses:
Vision: balance, emphasis, rhythm, proportion, pattern, unity and contrast. Along with ...
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What is the consensus on the Golden Rectangle?
What is the concensus (if there is one) in modern psychology regarding the well-known dubious belief that the Golden Rectangle is the rectangle that is most aesthetically pleasing to any given ...
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Is anyone aware of any cognitive models that appraises interior design preferences?
The goal is to evaluate someone's interior design preference based on some text/image based questions. Can the personality and aesthetic profile extracted from the answers be used as inputs for a ...
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What challenges the ideasthesia balance theory has to answer?
Ideasthesia "can be defined as a phenomenon in which activation of concepts produces phenomenal experience". The examples vary from the Kiki/Bouba phenomenon applied to (possibly) everyone ...
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Is there a script to measure face width to height ratio? [closed]
I´d be interested whether you know a script or anything automated to measure the face width to height ratio of a set of pictures depicting faces.
Otherwise, your experience how to do that ...
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How does architecture impact cognition and mental health?
Research indicates that scenic, natural environments positively impact human health and mental well-being [1][2]. But what about the impact of man-made architecture and various architectural styles on ...
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How are our tastes created? [closed]
Is there a scientific explanation of one's aesthetic preferences? Why do they differ from one person to another? Are they the results of one's culture and social interactions?
Any reference would be ...
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This is the 2,000th question posted. Why do people care about big round number events more than the surrounding events?
People seem to have a preference for celebrating "big round numbers", like the 2,000 post in the forum (although the 10,000 post would probably be more "special" - but not the 10,234 post, so it's not ...
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Are perceptions of beauty and the ideal partner mostly determined by mass media?
Mass-media marketing seems to strongly influence people's beliefs.
Are perceptions of beauty and the ideal partner mostly determined by what mass media proposes?
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Why is an image of a face without features disturbing?
Below is a snapshot of an article linked from LinkedIn today.
What I find more disturbing than the topic at hand is the featured image used to head up the article.
Clearly it's important to provide ...
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Psychology behind repeated viewing of certain pictures and songs
Often it happens that we like to frequently listen to a particular tune or song or view some pictures or images repeatedly time after time. What are the reasons and psychology behind this?
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Why do humans enjoy works of fiction?
Why humans (most of them, and certainly all those around me) enjoy fictional stories in one form or the other - novels, films, theater performances?
The starting assumption is that there must be an ...
