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http://dx.doi.org/10.14695/KJSOS.2016.19.3.15

Does the Preference for Emotional Paintings Depends on Personality?  

Yoon, Yosun (Department of Psychology, Chungbuk National University)
Lee, Seungbok (Department of Psychology, Chungbuk National University)
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Science of Emotion and Sensibility / v.19, no.3, 2016 , pp. 15-26 More about this Journal
Abstract
This study was performed to investigate whether aesthetic preference is related to the personality of an individual or not. Even though prior studies have reported that aesthetic preference for a certain style of art is associated with a personality factor, it is more important to focus on impressions and feelings about paintings than the style of art. The present study tried to examine how positive, negative, and neutral feelings about paintings are related to a personality factor, and that familiarity has an effect on aesthetic preference. After participants answered a Big-Five personality questionnaire, they then rated the preference for and familiarity about paintings which implied emotions. The results showed that individuals with higher scores of neuroticism preferred negative paintings. A preference for negative paintings is hard to explain, but this could be explained by results of this study. A hypothesis that familiar paintings would be more preferred is supported by the data. Aesthetic preference has both objectivity and the subjectivity. This study explained subjectivity through individual differences, and investigate art from a psychological point of view rather than conservative methods that sort paintings into art history.
Keywords
Neuroticism; Negative Emotion; Familiarity; Preference of Art; Big Five Theory;
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