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| Volume 30 Issue 2
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Editorial: Thirtieth Anniversary of Empirical Studies of the Arts
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Oshin Vartanian and Paul Locher, 2012,30:2,123 - 127
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Sympathy for a Character's Plight: Sex Differences in Response to Theatre
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Thalia R. Goldstein and Ellen Winner, 2012,30:2,129 - 141
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What causes us to feel sympathy for fictional characters? Using audience members from four theatrical productions we tested the relative strength of three oft-cited predictors: understanding the emotions of another (cognitive empathy), feeling the emotions of another (emotional empathy), and experiencing a negative emotional reaction to another's plight (personal distress). Predictors of sympathy held constant for a wide range of ages but differed for males versus females. Level of sympathy was predicted by emotional empathy in males but by cognitive empathy in females. These findings suggest that when watching theatrical performances, sympathy for characters is more other-directed for females than for males.
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Mature Cinematic Content for Immature Minds: "Pushing the Envelope" versus "Toning It Down" in Family Films
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Dean Keith Simonton, Lauren Elizabeth Skidmore, James C. Kaufman, 2012,30:2,143 - 166
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How does a film's content influence its reception by moviegoers and critics? What movie qualities result in better reviews, a higher box office, and more awards? This study investigates these questions in the specific genre of family films. One strategy is to "push the envelope" by intensifying adult themes and hints of sex and violence. An alternative strategy is to "tone it down," and keep any adult content to a minimum. A sample of 220 family films was assessed on (a) 15 measures of mature content; (b) multiple measures of film evaluations (3), box office performance (4), and movie honors (3, including children and teenager awards); and (c) 5 control variables. Broadly, this study supports the "pushing the envelope" strategy, especially regarding violence, topics to talk about, jump scenes, blood/gore, and inappropriate music. The optimal mature content for a family film differs markedly from that needed for films in general.
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Is Triangle Really Yellow? An Empirical Investigation of Kandinsky's Correspondence Theory
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Anatoliy V. Kharkhurin, 2012,30:2,167 - 182
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Kandinsky proposed a fundamental correspondence between primary colors and elementary forms: yellow - triangle, red - square, and blue - circle. This theory evoked a strong opposition among artists, design experts, and researchers. This theory was tested in two experiments. In Experiment 1 non-artist university students (N = 284) were directly asked about the color-form assignment using a modified version of Kandinsky's questionnaire. The evidence did not support Kandinsky's theory. Rather, their preferences for colored forms were guided by pragmatic associations. A sub-sample (N = 56) was further tested indirectly using a color-form priming technique, the evidence similarly not supporting Kandinsky's theory. Experiment 2 replicated the results of Experiment 1 in another sample of non-artist university students (N = 60) using color/form recognition test. These findings are in line with earlier investigations which had employed survey methods to assess preference for colors and forms. Having presented a consistent pattern of results among the general population, eventually this theory must also be tested in a synesthetic population.
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Serene Arts: The Effect of Personal Unsettledness and of Paintings' Narrative Structure on Personality
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Maja Djikic, Keith Oatley, Jordan B. Peterson, 2012,30:2,183 - 193
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Previous research has demonstrated that art can produce some variation in self-reported personality traits. The present experiment addressed two questions. First, does visual art cause greater fluctuations in personality for unsettled or serene individuals, and second, do unsettled individuals respond more to art as a function of its narrative structure? Participants (N = 61) completed a set of questionnaires, then viewed a series of paintings, Giotto's Seven Vices, either unmodified to exhibit high narrative structure, or modified to exhibit low narrative structure, and then filled another set of questionnaires. The results show that unsettled individuals experienced significantly less fluctuation of personality across conditions, and that in the condition of low narrative coherence, serene individuals experienced significantly more personality fluctuations than unsettled individuals. The results suggest that unsettled persons may need more narrative coherence in the art they engage with, while serene individuals may remain open to less-structured and more ambiguous art.
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Origins of Originality: Innovation Motivation and Intelligence in Poetry and Comics
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Stephen P. Joy, 2012,30:2,195 - 213
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Fifty undergraduates wrote associative poems, produced Draw-A-Story (DAS) comics using stimulus drawings, and completed self-report measures of the need to be different and innovation expectancies as well as the 16PF. The originality of the poems was scored based on variables such as use of unusual words. The originality of the DAS protocols was scored using variables such as unusual picture choices. Both creative works also were rated for creative merit by independent judges. The need to be different correlated with both approaches to evaluating both creative works. Innovation expectancies and certain 16PF scales, notably Factor I ("Sensitivity") and Factor M ("Abstractedness" or "Imagination") displayed similar, but weaker, patterns of correlation. Intelligence (16PF factor B) was also a noteworthy correlate of some aspects of creativity.
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Equally Discarded?: The Influence of Age and Gender on the Popularity of Screen Actors
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Christa L. Taylor, James C. Kaufman, Matt Riggs, 2012,30:2,215 - 231
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Gendered aging effects have been documented in television and film, such that older female characters are more underrepresented and stereotypically portrayed than their male counterparts. This trend has an adverse impact on the careers of female screen actors. This study examines whether the popularity of female screen actors among general audiences is impacted by age as well. Specifically, we expected that the popularity of female screen actors would decline more sharply with age than that of male screen actors. Biographical and filmographical information was collected for 347 actors (153 males, 194 females) from the IMDbpro website. Data were analyzed using growth modeling and hierarchical multiple regression. Results showed no gendered aging effects, but did demonstrate that male screen actors are more popular at all age groups than female screen actors and both groups' popularity declined with age. Implications are discussed.
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Person Repetition Neglect While Viewing Continuous Pictorial Narratives
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Hermann Kalkofenx and Micha Strack, 2012,30:2,233 - 251
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Continuous pictorial narratives (CPN) present protagonists repeatedly, yet adult viewers report seeing different persons instead. We presented 12 CPNs to 16 adults, whose oculomotor and verbal responses were continuously recorded. We addressed (a) the capability of instructions to compensate for lacking aesthetic fluency (Smith & Smith, 2006); (b) perceptual-cognitive processes accompanying Person Repetition Detection (PRD); (c) formal stimulus properties related with PRD. The results demonstrated that (a) search for presented persons especially similar to each other yielded more PRD than estimation of average age or aesthetic evaluation; (b) saccades between picture regions with repeated persons and PRDs were positively correlated; and (c) formal properties and PRD are not reliably correlated.
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