Research article summary (published 30 Jan 2003):

Temporal stability and consistency of aesthetic judgments of beauty of formal graphic patterns.

Full Abstract

Temporal stability and consistency of nonartists' aesthetic judgments of beauty of formal graphic patterns was assessed. Temporal stability decreased markedly over several months. When items were repeated in an aesthetic judgment task participants responded consistently over trials rather than performing genuine repeated aesthetic judgments of beauty.

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Author information

Author/s: Höfel, Lea (L); Jacobsen, Thomas (T);

Affiliation: Institut für Allgemeine Psychologie, Universität Leipzig, Germany.

Journal and publication information

Publication Type: Comment; Journal Article

Journal: Perceptual and motor skills (Percept Mot Skills), published in United States. (Language: eng)

Reference: 2003-Feb; vol 96 (issue 1) : pp 30-2

Dates: Created 2003/04/22; Completed 2003/08/04; Revised 2004/11/17;

PMID: 12705506, status: MEDLINE (last retrieval date: 12/26/2008)

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Comments and Corrections

CommentOn: Percept Mot Skills. 2002 Dec;95(3 Pt 1):755-66. (PMID: 12509172)

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Adult Beauty Esthetics Female Germany Humans Judgment

Male Orientation Pattern Recognition, Visual Psychophysics Reproducibility of Results Retention (Psychology) Students - psychology

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