Bizarreness and Emotion Identification in Grete Stern Photomontages: Gender and Age Disparities.

ABSTRACT: Although the International Affective Picture System (IAPS) is used to evaluate emotions (valence, arousal, and dominance evoked by a large set of photographs), bizarre images in works of art have not been assessed with the IAPS procedures. Understood here as strange, non-sense, and absurd mental contents or expressions accompanied by surprise and confusion emotions, bizarreness was assessed after healthy adult volunteers assigned this specified variable to 140 Grete Stern's photomontages overtly intended to illustrate strange, absurd, and non-sensical contents in dream reports. The images were presented to 21 Young Males (YM) and 30 Young Females (YF) who were instructed to use the IAPS Self-Assessment Manikin, along with an additional bizarre-to-normal scale, to evaluate their response to

SUBMITTER: Rosales-Lagarde A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5360721 | biostudies-literature | 2017

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature