Using Visual Aesthetic Sensitivity Measures in Museum Studies

Frontiers in Psychology

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Nils Myszkowski¹  Franck Zenasni² 

[1] Department of Psychology, Pace University, United States;Université de Paris;LAPEA, Univ. Gustave Eiffel, IFSTTAR

关键词: aesthetic abilities;    aesthetic sensitivity;    good taste;    museum experience;    psychological measurement;   

DOI  :  10.3389/fpsyg.2020.00414

学科分类：社会科学、人文和艺术（综合）

来源: Frontiers

【 摘 要 】

For over a century, differential psychologists (e.g., Cattell, 1890; Eysenck, 1940), educationalpsychologists (e.g., Thorndike, 1916; Seashore, 1929) and art theorists (e.g., Graves, 1948; Götz,1985) have attempted to capture one’s ability to form judgments of aesthetic objects that agree withexternal standards defined by stimulus construction criteria, layperson consensus, and/or expertconsensus. In the visual domain, this ability—generally discussed as visual aesthetic sensitivity(Child, 1964) and measured through (notably) the Visual Aesthetic Sensitivity Test (VAST; Götz,1985), its revision (VAST-R; Myszkowski and Storme, 2017), the Meier Art Tests (MAT; Meier,1928) and the Design Judgment Test (DJT; Graves, 1948)—has recently regained interest, but hasbeen mainly studied through its relations with individual differences in art expertise, personality,and intelligence among adults (e.g., Furnham and Chamorro-Premuzic, 2004; Myszkowski et al.,2014), and has remained unstudied in museum settings. In this paper, we review the current stateof research on the validity of visual aesthetic sensitivity tests, and propose how to best implementthem in museum studies.

【 授权许可】

CC BY