The experience of beauty of different categories of objects S Markovic1, T Bulut2, M Trkulja2, V Cokorilo2 |
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1University of Belgrade, Serbia |
| The purpose of the present study was to compare the structures of the experience of beauty of different object categories. The experience of beauty was measured by the check-list of 137 descriptors (e.g. pleasant, harmonious, exciting, etc). Seventeen participants were asked to mark the descriptors which well described their experience of beauty of five categories: (1) Humans, (2) Animals, (3) Architecture, (4) Nature, and (5) Things. Distributions of the frequencies of 137 adjectives for five categories were inter-correlated. Analyses have shown significant positive correlations between Humans and Animals (.70), Architecture and Things (.69), and Architecture and Nature (.30). Humans and Animals were negatively significantly correlated with Architecture (-.45 and -.42) and Things (-.40 and -.43). Cluster analysis revealed (a) one cluster which included descriptors with high frequency across all categories, and clusters which included the descriptors specific for (b) Humans, (c) Humans and Animals, (d) Architecture and Things and (e) Nature, Architecture and Things. These results suggest that the structure of the experience of beauty is category specific. Two wider coalitions of categories were specified: Living beings (Humans and Animals) and Artificial objects (Architecture and Things). Nature was placed between those coalitions, but slightly closer to Artificial objects. |
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