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ArticlePloS one2019

Beauty, elegance, grace, and sexiness compared.

Winfried Menninghaus, Valentin Wagner, Vanessa Kegel, Christine A Knoop, Wolff Schlotz

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Article in PloS one, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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4citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

4 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Beauty, the feeling.Acta psychologica · 2021
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  4. Intense Beauty Requires Intense Pleasure.Frontiers in psychology · 2019
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Winfried MenninghausMax Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics, Frankfurt am Main, Germany.ORCID 0000-0003-3585-8544
Valentin WagnerMax Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics, Frankfurt am Main, Germany.ORCID 0000-0001-9510-351X
Vanessa KegelMax Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics, Frankfurt am Main, Germany.
Christine A KnoopMax Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics, Frankfurt am Main, Germany.
Wolff SchlotzMax Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics, Frankfurt am Main, Germany.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Beauty is the single most frequently and most broadly used aesthetic virtue term. The present study aimed at providing higher conceptual resolution to the broader notion of beauty by comparing it with three closely related aesthetically evaluative concepts which are likewise lexicalized across many languages: elegance, grace(fulness), and sexiness. We administered a variety of questionnaires that targeted perceptual qualia, cognitive and affective evaluations, as well as specific object properties that are associated with beauty, elegance, grace, and sexiness in personal looks, movements, objects of design, and other domains. This allowed us to reveal distinct and highly nuanced profiles of how a beautiful, elegant, graceful, and sexy appearance is subjectively perceived. As aesthetics is all about nuances, the fine-grained conceptual analysis of the four target concepts of our study provides crucial distinctions for future research.

Indexed as

BeautyEstheticsSexualityVirtuesAdultAge FactorsCohort StudiesCultureFemaleHumansMaleMiddle AgedPerceptionSemanticsSocial DesirabilitySocial Values

Identifiers

PMID31226137
PMCPMC6588248

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