Like what you see : generalization of social learning determines art appreciation
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- Yannick Boddez (UGent) , Mathilde Descheemaeker, Gaetan Mertens, Astrid Truyts and Sander Van de Cruys
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- We examine whether a stimulus generalization framework can provide insight in how experience shapes evaluative responses to artworks. Participants received positive information about one artwork and negative information about another artwork. Afterwards, we tested their evaluative responses not only to these artworks but also to similar artworks, which allowed us to assess generalization. Results showed that the artwork that was paired with positive information and the artwork that was similar to it were evaluated more positively than the other artworks. These findings confirm that theories that aim to explain art appreciation could benefit from taking learning and its generalization into account.
- Keywords
- Art, Aesthetic preference, Evaluative learning, Generalization, Evaluative priming, STIMULUS-GENERALIZATION, AUTOMATIC ACTIVATION, MODEL, INSTRUCTIONS, PREFERENCES, INFORMATION, ACQUISITION, PERSUASION, SCIENCE, ACCOUNT
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Please use this url to cite or link to this publication: http://hdl.handle.net/1854/LU-8696297
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- Boddez, Yannick, et al. “Like What You See : Generalization of Social Learning Determines Art Appreciation.” ACTA PSYCHOLOGICA, vol. 196, 2019, pp. 18–25, doi:10.1016/j.actpsy.2019.04.001.
- APA
- Boddez, Y., Descheemaeker, M., Mertens, G., Truyts, A., & Van de Cruys, S. (2019). Like what you see : generalization of social learning determines art appreciation. ACTA PSYCHOLOGICA, 196, 18–25. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actpsy.2019.04.001
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- Boddez, Yannick, Mathilde Descheemaeker, Gaetan Mertens, Astrid Truyts, and Sander Van de Cruys. 2019. “Like What You See : Generalization of Social Learning Determines Art Appreciation.” ACTA PSYCHOLOGICA 196: 18–25. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actpsy.2019.04.001.
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- Boddez, Yannick, Mathilde Descheemaeker, Gaetan Mertens, Astrid Truyts, and Sander Van de Cruys. 2019. “Like What You See : Generalization of Social Learning Determines Art Appreciation.” ACTA PSYCHOLOGICA 196: 18–25. doi:10.1016/j.actpsy.2019.04.001.
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- 1.Boddez Y, Descheemaeker M, Mertens G, Truyts A, Van de Cruys S. Like what you see : generalization of social learning determines art appreciation. ACTA PSYCHOLOGICA. 2019;196:18–25.
- IEEE
- [1]Y. Boddez, M. Descheemaeker, G. Mertens, A. Truyts, and S. Van de Cruys, “Like what you see : generalization of social learning determines art appreciation,” ACTA PSYCHOLOGICA, vol. 196, pp. 18–25, 2019.
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author = {{Boddez, Yannick and Descheemaeker, Mathilde and Mertens, Gaetan and Truyts, Astrid and Van de Cruys, Sander}},
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