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Aesthetic Preference: Anomalous Findings for Berlyne's Psychobiological Theory

1990; University of Illinois Press; Volume: 103; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês

10.2307/1423259

1939-8298

Colin Martindale, Kathleen N. Moore, Jonathan M. Borkum,

Multisensory perception and integration

Seven experiments were conducted to test predictions derived from Berlyne's theory of aesthetic preference. According to this theory, preference is an inverted-U function of arousal potential; the determinants of arousal potential are summed, with the consequence that an increase in the amount of one determinant leads to a decrease in the maximally preferred level of other determinants; and collative properties, such as complexity, are the most important predictors of preference