Liking versus Complexity: Decomposing the Inverted U-curve.

ABSTRACT: The relationship between liking and stimulus complexity is commonly reported to follow an inverted U-curve. However, large individual differences among complexity preferences of participants have frequently been observed since the earliest studies on the topic. The common use of across-participant analysis methods that ignore these large individual differences in aesthetic preferences gives an impression of high agreement between individuals. In this study, we collected ratings of liking and perceived complexity from 30 participants for a set of digitally generated grayscale images. In addition, we calculated an objective measure of complexity for each image. Our results reveal that the inverted U-curve relationship between liking and stimulus complexity comes about as the combination of d

SUBMITTER: Gucluturk Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4796011 | biostudies-literature | 2016

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature