Alessandro Ansani, Friederike Koehler, Lisa Giombini, Matias Hämäläinen, Chen Meng, Marco Marini, Suvi Saarikallio
{"title":"AI Performer Bias: Listeners Like Music Less When They Think it was Performed by an AI","authors":"Alessandro Ansani, Friederike Koehler, Lisa Giombini, Matias Hämäläinen, Chen Meng, Marco Marini, Suvi Saarikallio","doi":"10.1177/02762374241308807","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/02762374241308807","url":null,"abstract":"Contextual information can shape the aesthetic judgements of music compositions. Recently, a study proposed the existence of an AI composer bias; namely, listeners tend to like music less when they think (or are told) that it was composed by an AI. In this online study ( N = 120), we used a cross-over experimental design to verify whether such bias extends to audiovisual music performance. The participants rated three videos of classic piano music performances in two versions with identical audio: one with a professional pianist who pretended to play, and one with the piano playing automatically, allegedly thanks to an AI. As hypothesised, the participants rated the performances as more likeable, engaging, higher in emotional valence, and of higher quality when the pieces were “performed” by the pianist. Notably, these effects were insensitive to the participants’ musical expertise but moderated by their attitudes toward AI. Interestingly, when asked what differences they had found between the two renditions, the participants confabulated about differences in rhythm, tempo variations, dynamics, and dissonances, pointing to underlying psychological processes, such as expectations and beliefs about humanness. Implications for Aesthetics and the Psychology of Art are discussed.","PeriodicalId":45870,"journal":{"name":"Empirical Studies of the Arts","volume":"49 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2025-01-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142986710","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Katherine N. Cotter, Christa T. Mahlobo, Brittany Smith, Suzannah Niepold, Adam Rizzo, James O. Pawelski
{"title":"Examining the Ability of Digital Visual Art Engagement to Cultivate Empathy and Social Connection","authors":"Katherine N. Cotter, Christa T. Mahlobo, Brittany Smith, Suzannah Niepold, Adam Rizzo, James O. Pawelski","doi":"10.1177/02762374241309878","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/02762374241309878","url":null,"abstract":"We aimed to impact social connectedness and perspective taking using visual art-based psychoeducational materials and skill-building exercises. Participants ( N = 381) were assigned to one of three conditions. Within the perspective taking condition, people took different viewpoints when viewing art. Within the social connection condition, people considered how art can help in reflecting on their relationships. Within the art education control, people focused on structural elements when viewing art. People completed 4 virtual gallery visits and measures of empathy, social connection, and loneliness at baseline, following each visit, and one-week post intervention. Participants reported their level of immersion and reflectiveness following each visit. Results suggest the conditions did not show changes one week post intervention; however, there were interesting findings post-visit. First, reflection was highest in the perspective taking condition, and the social connection condition showed increases in reflection across time. Second, the social connection condition showed reductions in loneliness.","PeriodicalId":45870,"journal":{"name":"Empirical Studies of the Arts","volume":"22 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2025-01-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142974559","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Evaluating the Temporal Effect of Image Features on Dynamic Aesthetic Experience of Generative art","authors":"Pu Meng, Zhuoyue Diao, Xin Meng, Liqun Zhang","doi":"10.1177/02762374241311881","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/02762374241311881","url":null,"abstract":"The emergence of dynamic digital arts, such as dynamic generative art, has reshaped how aesthetic experiences can be studied, emphasizing their inherently dynamic and evolving nature. Within the framework of computational aesthetics, which seeks to model and quantify human perceptions of beauty, this study extends the focus from static to dynamic stimuli. We investigate the temporal relationship between evolving image features and aesthetic judgments, exploring how dynamic visual properties influence the progression of aesthetic judgments over time. By introducing temporal offsets in the analysis and employing linear and nonlinear statistical models, we examine continuous aesthetic ratings alongside an extensive set of image features. Our findings offer a novel perspective on the enduring impact of image features on aesthetic experience.","PeriodicalId":45870,"journal":{"name":"Empirical Studies of the Arts","volume":"29 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2025-01-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142974560","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Cumulative Model for Empirical Research in the Arts: A Semiotic Answer to the Challenge of Interdisciplinarity","authors":"Héctor G. Gallegos González, Barend van Heusden","doi":"10.1177/02762374241304299","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/02762374241304299","url":null,"abstract":"The empirical study of the arts would greatly benefit from truly interdisciplinary research. The diverse epistemic perspectives of the main disciplines concerned with researching the artistic experience (humanities, psychology, natural sciences) pose, however, a challenge to their collaboration. Rather than starting from a conceptual definition of art, we take a theoretical, cognitive-semiotic stance, analyzing art as a recursive imaginative sense-making process. This provides us with a clear picture of the multilayered structure of the artistic. As it acknowledges the innate, the learned, and the semiotic dimensions that together are constitutive of the artistic experience, the Cumulative Model for Empirical Research in the Arts, although it does not offer a practical experimental guide, provides a comprehensive theory-based framework that can support cooperation across disciplines in the research of the arts.","PeriodicalId":45870,"journal":{"name":"Empirical Studies of the Arts","volume":"14 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2025-01-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142936604","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The “Past” is Sweet: An Investigation into the Aesthetic and Affective Experience of Paintings","authors":"Yizhen Zhou, Hideaki Kawabata","doi":"10.1177/02762374241300029","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/02762374241300029","url":null,"abstract":"This study explored the relationship between nostalgia and aesthetic evaluations of visual art in the form of landscape paintings. Participants evaluated a hundred different paintings for the level of nostalgia they evoked, their beauty, positive and negative valences, arousal, and familiarity. The results indicated an association between feelings of nostalgia and beauty. Furthermore, nostalgia correlated differently with the positive and negative valences; there was a positive and negative correlation between nostalgia and positive and negative valences, respectively. Positive correlations were also observed between nostalgia and arousal and familiarity. Additionally, the paintings’ intrinsic memorability was assessed and found to have a borderline significant impact on nostalgia ratings. Interestingly, the higher the memorability of a painting, the lower the likelihood of nostalgic feelings occurring. In summation, this study sheds light on the associations between affective and aesthetic experiences using a relatively under-studied medium of triggering nostalgic feelings—paintings.","PeriodicalId":45870,"journal":{"name":"Empirical Studies of the Arts","volume":"44 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2024-12-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142815611","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Susanna Mykoniatis, Kaile Smith, Jennifer E. Drake
{"title":"The Drawing Effect: Does Drawing Really Enhance Recall Memory?","authors":"Susanna Mykoniatis, Kaile Smith, Jennifer E. Drake","doi":"10.1177/02762374241303266","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/02762374241303266","url":null,"abstract":"There is some evidence that the best strategy for remembering text-based information is drawing when using a mixed list design where participants both draw and write in the same list. There is also some evidence that the memory benefits of drawing are reduced when using a pure list design where participants draw or write in separate lists. In this study ( n = 91), we compared three encoding strategies for recalling a list of scientific terms and their definitions: drawing, paraphrasing, and writing the definitions, and randomly assigned participants to a condition. We also examined individual difference factors that might impact these encoding strategies. We found no difference across conditions. Instead, drawing abilities, working memory, and familiarity for what was to be remembered predicted recall performance. We conclude that more research is needed before declaring a “drawing effect,” since the effect is reduced when using a pure list design.","PeriodicalId":45870,"journal":{"name":"Empirical Studies of the Arts","volume":"92 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2024-12-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142815629","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Margot Dehove, Jan Mikuni, Nikita Podolin, Helmut Leder, Elisabeth Oberzaucher
{"title":"The Impact of Urban art on Wellbeing: A Laboratory Study","authors":"Margot Dehove, Jan Mikuni, Nikita Podolin, Helmut Leder, Elisabeth Oberzaucher","doi":"10.1177/02762374241298878","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/02762374241298878","url":null,"abstract":"Art has proven be an asset in maintaining and enhancing our wellbeing. Following a recent field study, the present laboratory investigation assessed whether and to what extent an interaction with art in urban public spaces can positively impact experienced wellbeing. Participants watched videos simulating an interaction with a parking-lot-sized intervention decorated with art, greenery (active control), or nothing (conventional control) in an urban setting. Before and after interacting with each video, participants’ anxiety, stress, positive and negative mood were measured. Subjective experiences of the location and the intervention were also collected. Results showed a unique pattern for the art: (1) while positive mood decreased for both active and conventional controls, it remained stable in the art and (2) exploratory analyses suggested a positive correlation between subjective experiences and wellbeing only for the art. Current results as well as differences and advantages of field and laboratory studies were discussed.","PeriodicalId":45870,"journal":{"name":"Empirical Studies of the Arts","volume":"97 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2024-12-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142804652","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Stephanie Miller, Katherine N. Cotter, Joerg Fingerhut, Helmut Leder, Matthew Pelowski
{"title":"What Can Happen When We Look at Art?: An Exploratory Network Model and Latent Profile Analysis of Affective/Cognitive Aspects Underlying Shared, Supraordinate Responses to Museum Visual Art","authors":"Stephanie Miller, Katherine N. Cotter, Joerg Fingerhut, Helmut Leder, Matthew Pelowski","doi":"10.1177/02762374241292576","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/02762374241292576","url":null,"abstract":"Art-viewing is a defining component of society and culture, in part because the experience involves a wide-range and nuanced configuration of emotional and cognitive responses. Precisely because of this complexity, however, questions of the actual nature, scope, and variety of art experience remain largely unanswered: what kinds of patterns do we exhibit, how do various components go together, and can these be distilled into shared experiential outcomes? We introduce an exploratory study based on 345 individuals’ unique experiences with one of three sets of artworks. Experiences were assessed via 46 affective and cognitive items based on a recent model, with individuals reporting to what degree they felt each during their encounter. Network and latent profile analyses revealed five patterns, aligning to a Harmonious, Facile, Transformative, and two Negative outcomes. These largely supported model hypotheses, connected to specific appraisals, and could be found, although with varying probability, across individual viewers and artworks.","PeriodicalId":45870,"journal":{"name":"Empirical Studies of the Arts","volume":"98 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2024-11-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142642991","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Symmetry and Meaningfulness in the Spotlight of Expertness","authors":"Bernadett Palko-Arndt, Cintia Bali, Aniko Illes","doi":"10.1177/02762374241291012","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/02762374241291012","url":null,"abstract":"Empirical aesthetics focuses on understanding how perceptual features shape aesthetic preferences, with symmetry being a key aspect. However, recent studies show variation in symmetry preference across samples and stimuli. Our study aims to explore the boundaries of symmetry preference, particularly in relation to meaning, prototypicality and expertise in visual arts. With our stimuli we can test the comparative dominance of these features. In our forced-choice preference task (N = 196), we manipulated images for symmetry, meaning, and prototypicality. Findings reveal that symmetry preference is only remarkable in meaningless images among non-experts. Instead, meaningfulness emerged as a significant factor influencing their aesthetic preferences. Experts show no distinct preference for symmetry or meaningfulness. However, prototypicality is favoured by both groups in meaningful stimuli, regardless of symmetry. These results highlight the dominance of meaning in aesthetic experience and underscore the complex interplay between symmetry, meaning, and expertise in visual arts.","PeriodicalId":45870,"journal":{"name":"Empirical Studies of the Arts","volume":"19 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2024-10-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142536444","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Cultural Engagement and Subjective Well-Being in the Cluj Metropolitan Area: An Exploration in Cultural Commoning and Collaborative Development","authors":"Norbert Petrovici, Cristian Pop, Rarița Zbranca","doi":"10.1177/02762374241291479","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/02762374241291479","url":null,"abstract":"We explore cultural participation's impact on subjective well-being in Cluj Metropolitan Area. Using telephone surveys, we identify a positive correlation between cultural engagement and increased well-being, mediated by cultural appraisal. Three primary participation types—active, receptive, and entertainment-related—are identified. Active and entertainment-related activities indirectly enhance well-being through cultural appraisal, while receptive participation shows no significant direct or indirect effect. Controlling socio-economic factors, the mediation analysis underscores cultural practices’ significant impact on well-being. These findings support the “cultural commoning” hypothesis, indicating collective urban cultural engagement fosters shared values and improves subjective well-being.","PeriodicalId":45870,"journal":{"name":"Empirical Studies of the Arts","volume":"13 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2024-10-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142488659","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}