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‘Beauty Is No Quality in Things Themselves’: Epistemic Motivation Affects Implicit Preferences for Art

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  • Antonio Chirumbolo
  • Ambra Brizi
  • Stefano Mastandrea
  • Lucia Mannetti

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Art preferences are affected by a number of subjective factors. This paper reports two studies which investigated whether need for closure shapes implicit art preferences. It was predicted that higher need for closure would negatively affect implicit preferences for abstract art. In study one, 60 participants were tested for dispositional need for closure and then completed an Implicit Association Test (IAT) task to measure their implicit preference for abstract (vs. figurative) paintings. In study two, 54 participants completed the same IAT task. In this experiment need for closure was both manipulated by cognitive load and tapped as a dispositional trait. Results of the studies converged in showing that after controlling for other important individual factors such as participants'expertise and cognitive ability, need for closure, both as a dispositional trait and as a situationally induced motivational state, was negatively associated with implicit preference for abstract art.

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  • Antonio Chirumbolo & Ambra Brizi & Stefano Mastandrea & Lucia Mannetti, 2014. "‘Beauty Is No Quality in Things Themselves’: Epistemic Motivation Affects Implicit Preferences for Art," PLOS ONE, Public Library of Science, vol. 9(10), pages 1-9, October.
    • Handle: RePEc:plo:pone00:0110323
    DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0110323
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