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ArticlePsyCh journal2022

Inside the Michelangelo effect: The role of art and aesthetic attractiveness on perceived fatigue and hand kinematics in virtual painting.

Marco Iosa, Fabiano Bini, Franco Marinozzi, Gabriella Antonucci, Simona Pascucci, Giulia Baghini, Valeria Guarino, Stefano Paolucci, Giovanni Morone, Gaetano Tieri

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Article in PsyCh journal, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 10 papers.

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10 authors at 4 institutions in 1 country.

Marco IosaDepartment of Psychology, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2434-3887
Fabiano BiniIRCCS Fondazione Santa Lucia, Rome, Italy.
Franco MarinozziIRCCS Fondazione Santa Lucia, Rome, Italy.
Gabriella AntonucciDepartment of Psychology, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy.
Simona PascucciDepartment of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy.
Giulia BaghiniDepartment of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy.
Valeria GuarinoDepartment of Psychology, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy.
Stefano PaolucciIRCCS Fondazione Santa Lucia, Rome, Italy.
Giovanni MoroneDepartment of Life, Health and Environmental Sciences, University of L'Aquila, L'Aquila, Italy.
Gaetano TieriIRCCS Fondazione Santa Lucia, Rome, Italy.
Fondazione Santa Lucia · ITSapienza University of Rome · ITUnitelma Sapienza University · ITUniversity of L'Aquila · IT

Funding

Italian Ministry of Health: Neuro-Metaverse; Sapienza University: Neuroartifact
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

It has recently been discovered that during a virtual reality task of painting, if the subjects have the illusion of recreating an artistic masterpiece, they improve their performances and perceive less fatigue compared to simply coloring a virtual canvas. This phenomenon has been called the Michelangelo effect. However, it was unclear if this effect was related to the aesthetic experience of beauty or if it was specific to artistic stimuli. To clarify this point, 26 healthy subjects performed the virtual task of erasing a blank sheet on the canvas, revealing an image that could be a painting or a photo, classified as beautiful or not. Beautiful paintings were famous artistic portraits, non-beautiful paintings were rough reproductions of them. Photos of popular people were matched with paintings according to their similarity for somatic traits, posture, and clothes. Beautiful and non-beautiful photos were classified according to whether the pictured person was famous or not for their beauty. For each stimulus the objective beauty, subjective beauty, and effort to complete the task perceived by the subject were self-assessed on a numerical rating scale, recorded and analyzed. Furthermore, the hand kinematic trajectory was instrumentally recorded and its spatiotemporal parameters were computed. Less fatigue was perceived for the paintings than for the photos (p = .020), but not for beautiful versus non-beautiful stimuli (p = .325). Only in the artistic stimuli, subjective beauty was found to be negatively correlated with perceived fatigue (p = .030) and performed errors (p = .005). The kinematic parameters were found to be affected by the interactions between the gender of the participant and that of the person in the photo. These results supported the idea that the Michelangelo effect was stronger when subjects interacted with artefacts, modulated by the perceived beauty of the artistic stimulus.

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IllusionsPaintingsBiomechanical PhenomenaEstheticsFatigueHumansaestheticsartkinematicneuroaestheticsneurorehabilitationpaint

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PMID36168965
PMCPMC9827837
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