riesof classic and modern artistic paintings was examined. The study uses pictures that trigger inthe observer the amodal completion, which involves the application and confirmation of alreadyconsolidated mental schemata, or the perceptual contradiction, which highlights their non-confirmation,generating incongruity experience. As in a first preliminary study conducted by Bonaiuto,Biasi, Giannini, & Chiodetti (2001) with advertising images, incongruity intolerance levels wereassessed with the Building Inclination Test (BIT). Also in this new study, we apply the BIT tool inorder to select sixty young adults, divided into three subgroups: 20 very incongruity intolerantparticipants, 20 very incongruity tolerant ones, and 20 intermediate participants, both gendersequally subdivided. Moreover, we selected eighteen colour laser reproductions of classical andmodern artistic paintings on A4 paper sheets: six show the predominant completion phenomena,other six are based on clear incongruous situations and the last six show completion phenomenamixed with incongruity. Each participant individually evaluated each illustration on aesthetic andphysiognomic aspects, using 11-point scales. Double-blind experimental conditions were assured.The results show that very incongruity intolerant participants highly aesthetically appreciate thecompletion pictures, but they do not like the incongruent pictures. Differently the very incongruitytolerant participants are able to appreciate all three types of images presented, and attributepositive aesthetic scores also to the incongruent and thus conflictual pictures. The thirdgroup of participants is characterized by intermediate level of incongruity intolerance and obtainintermediate scores. Collected data confirm our research paradigm based on the theoreticalmodel of overloading of conflict, and stress the role of the individual level of intolerance of incongruityin the dynamics of aesthetic preferences. This survey also allows to obtain an effect of generalization of the theoretical model through the empirical verification with different types ofimages.
Personality Differences in Perception: The role of Incongruity Intolerance and Mental Schemata on Aesthetic Preferences
PATRIZI, NAZARENA;
2015-01-01
Abstract
riesof classic and modern artistic paintings was examined. The study uses pictures that trigger inthe observer the amodal completion, which involves the application and confirmation of alreadyconsolidated mental schemata, or the perceptual contradiction, which highlights their non-confirmation,generating incongruity experience. As in a first preliminary study conducted by Bonaiuto,Biasi, Giannini, & Chiodetti (2001) with advertising images, incongruity intolerance levels wereassessed with the Building Inclination Test (BIT). Also in this new study, we apply the BIT tool inorder to select sixty young adults, divided into three subgroups: 20 very incongruity intolerantparticipants, 20 very incongruity tolerant ones, and 20 intermediate participants, both gendersequally subdivided. Moreover, we selected eighteen colour laser reproductions of classical andmodern artistic paintings on A4 paper sheets: six show the predominant completion phenomena,other six are based on clear incongruous situations and the last six show completion phenomenamixed with incongruity. Each participant individually evaluated each illustration on aesthetic andphysiognomic aspects, using 11-point scales. Double-blind experimental conditions were assured.The results show that very incongruity intolerant participants highly aesthetically appreciate thecompletion pictures, but they do not like the incongruent pictures. Differently the very incongruitytolerant participants are able to appreciate all three types of images presented, and attributepositive aesthetic scores also to the incongruent and thus conflictual pictures. The thirdgroup of participants is characterized by intermediate level of incongruity intolerance and obtainintermediate scores. Collected data confirm our research paradigm based on the theoreticalmodel of overloading of conflict, and stress the role of the individual level of intolerance of incongruityin the dynamics of aesthetic preferences. This survey also allows to obtain an effect of generalization of the theoretical model through the empirical verification with different types ofimages.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
