The role of gender and academic degree on preference for smooth curvature of abstract shapes.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Preference for smooth contours occurs for a variety of visual stimuli. However, there are individual differences. Openness to experience, a trait associated with aesthetic appreciation, emotional sensitivity and abstract thinking, correlates with this preference. The evaluation of meaningless stimuli entails automatic associations influenced by knowledge, intellectual interests and individual experiences which are diverse. However, it is difficult to capture this variability in studies restricted to Undergraduate students in Psychology with a prevalence of female participants.

Methods

Here we examined preference for curvature with 160 undergraduate students in Psychology, Mathematics, Engineering and Computer Science, balanced for gender. Participants viewed abstr

SUBMITTER: Palumbo L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7953868 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature