About the Role of Visual Exploration in Aesthetics

1981 ◽  
pp. 385-413 ◽  
Author(s):  
François Molnar
Keyword(s):  
Visual Exploration

Is It a Masterpiece? Social Construction and Objective Constraint in the Evaluation of Excellence

2017 ◽  
Vol 80 (4) ◽  
pp. 289-309 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stoyan V. Sgourev ◽  
Niek Althuizen
Keyword(s):  
Social Construction ◽  
Social Status ◽  
Subjective Social Status ◽  
Visual Exploration ◽  
Online Experiment ◽  
Objective Reality ◽  
The Status ◽  
Over Time ◽  
Art Evaluation

A key question in scholarship on evaluation is the extent to which the role of social construction is constrained by objective reality. This question is addressed in an analysis of the evaluation of artistic excellence. In an online experiment, we manipulate the subjective social status (both artwork and artist) and the degree of aesthetic complexity of the artwork. The results confirm the independent role of the objective aesthetic factor in art evaluation. Most importantly, we document an interaction between subjective and objective factors whereby aesthetic complexity serves as a credibility lever, amplifying or attenuating the credibility of the status labels. Excessive praise (i.e., a masterpiece by a world-famous artist) tends to reduce the appreciation of aesthetically simple artworks when status labels are questioned. However, the association of aesthetic complexity with the capacity to provoke thought may encourage respondents to take the paintings more seriously. Complexity is typically discouraged for standard products, but it can be instrumental in the process of singularization by stimulating visual exploration and sustaining interest over time.

After the Tourists Depart

2020 ◽  
pp. 186-207
Author(s):  
Sreedeep Bhattacharya
Keyword(s):  
Image Space ◽  
Visual Exploration ◽  
Tourist Destination ◽  
Tourist Gaze

This chapter explores multiple aspects of image–space relationship in Ladakh in particular. It analyzes the role of photographic practices behind branding of an aspired tourist destination. It makes a case for image–destination inseparability and argues that it is the constructed image of the destination which attracts collective tourist gaze. It focuses on the evolution of Ladakh as a hyper tourist destination in the last two decades. It asserts that the consumerist trajectory or tragedy of Ladakh in the post-liberalization period as a destination for adventure and exotica is visually negotiated through imageries. It also highlights some of the material leftovers of the tourists. Through a visual exploration of material remains, it documents reckless consumerist obsession with packaged tourism.

The role of the right frontal eye field in overt visual attention deployment as assessed by free visual exploration

2015 ◽  
Vol 74 ◽  
pp. 37-41 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dario Cazzoli ◽  
Simon Jung ◽  
Thomas Nyffeler ◽  
Tobias Nef ◽  
Pascal Wurtz ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Visual Attention ◽  
Visual Exploration ◽  
Frontal Eye Field ◽  
Eye Field ◽  
Attention Deployment ◽  
The Right

scholarly journals Visual exploration in adults: Habituation, mere exposure, or optimal level of arousal?

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Erik Gustafsson ◽  
Coralie Francoeur ◽  
Isabelle Blanchette ◽  
Sylvain Sirois
Keyword(s):  
Subjective Evaluation ◽  
Optimal Level ◽  
Visual Exploration ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Evaluation Task ◽  
Subjective Preference ◽  
Arousal Model ◽  
Familiar Stimuli ◽  
Exploration Task

AbstractExploration is one of the most powerful behaviours that drive learning from infancy to adulthood. The aim of the current study was to examine the role of novelty and subjective preference in visual exploration. To do this, we combined a visual exploration task with a subjective evaluation task, presenting novel and familiar pictures. The first goal was to ascertain whether, as demonstrated in babies, short habituation favors visual exploration of familiarity, whereas longer habituation leads to an exploration of novelty. The second goal was to evaluate the influence of familiarization on participants’ subjective evaluation of the stimuli. When presented with novel and very familiar stimuli, participants explored the novel stimuli more. In line with the optimal-level of arousal model, participants showed more positive evaluations of the semi-familiar stimuli compared with very familiar or very novel ones.

Role of dactinomycin in the improved survival of children with Wilms' tumor

JAMA ◽  
1966 ◽  
Vol 195 (12) ◽  
pp. 1005-1009 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. J. Fernbach
Keyword(s):  
Wilms Tumor

Role of the allergist in diagnosis and management of patients with uveitis

JAMA ◽  
1966 ◽  
Vol 195 (3) ◽  
pp. 167-172 ◽  
Author(s):  
T. E. Van Metre
Keyword(s):  
Diagnosis And Management

The power of norms to sway fused group members

2018 ◽  
Vol 41 ◽  
Author(s):  
Winnifred R. Louis ◽  
Craig McGarty ◽  
Emma F. Thomas ◽  
Catherine E. Amiot ◽  
Fathali M. Moghaddam
Keyword(s):  
Evolutionary Anthropology ◽  
Normative Systems ◽  
Violent Extremism ◽  
Identity Fusion ◽  
Group Members

AbstractWhitehouse adapts insights from evolutionary anthropology to interpret extreme self-sacrifice through the concept of identity fusion. The model neglects the role of normative systems in shaping behaviors, especially in relation to violent extremism. In peaceful groups, increasing fusion will actually decrease extremism. Groups collectively appraise threats and opportunities, actively debate action options, and rarely choose violence toward self or others.

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