ArticleBehavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland)2021
Aesthetic Preference for Glossy Materials: An Attempted Replication and Extension.
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- Analysis of Water Activity and Gloss of Stored Goat Cheeses According to Consumer Preferences and Tastes.Foods (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Updating the Aesthetic Fluency Scale: Revised long and short forms for research in the psychology of the arts.PloS one · 2023Article
- More Information, Greater Appreciation: The Correlation between Background Information and Aesthetic Judgment of Tourist Crafts.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Article
- On the Questionable Appeal of Glossy/Shiny Food Packaging.Foods (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021Review
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Abstract
The psychology of art and aesthetics has a long-standing interest in how low-level features, such as symmetry, curvature, and color, affect people's aesthetic experience. Recent research in this tradition suggests that people find glossy, shiny objects and materials more attractive than flat, matte ones. The present experiment sought to replicate and extend research on the attractiveness of images printed on glossy and flat paper. To control for several possible confounding factors, glossiness was manipulated between-person and varied with methods that held constant factors like weight, color quality, and resolution. To extend past work, we explored art expertise and Openness to Experience as potential moderators. A sample of 100 adults viewed landscape photographs on either high-gloss photo paper or on identical paper in which a flat, matte spray finish had been applied. Ratings of attractiveness showed weak evidence for replication. People rated the glossy pictures as more attractive than the matte ones, but the effect size was small (
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