A new Visual Aesthetic Sensitivity Test—IV. Cross-cultural comparisons between a Chinese sample from Singapore and an English sample

Whose Mind Matters More—The Agent or the Artist? An Investigation of Ethical and Aesthetic Evaluations

“…For example, researchers have investigated whether aesthetic evaluations are influenced primarily by automatic, unconscious, and perhaps emotionally driven processes, or instead evaluative, principled, and controlled processes [38], [15]. In parallel, work in moral psychology and neuroscience has investigated the extent to which “reason” versus “emotion” or “intuition” dominates human moral judgment [39], [40]]–[[44] Literature across both domains has also explored the critical contribution of cultural influences versus universal principles [45], [42].…”

Using Visual Aesthetic Sensitivity Measures in Museum Studies

“…Still, using empirical standards poses the question of measurement (in)variance, especially across cultural backgrounds: Two artworks A and B may be aesthetically ordered as A > B for a group but as B < A for another. Fortunately, on that matter, studies of cultural measurement invariance-especially on the VAST (Iwawaki et al, 1979;Chan et al, 1980;Eysenck et al, 1984)-have provided encouraging results, with positive strong correlations between the item difficulties of the test across different groups differing in gender, age, and nationality (England, Japan, Hong Kong, Germany, and Singapore). More robust analyses (e.g., using differential item functioning), are certainly called for, but there is currently no empirical evidence of problematic measurement variance across cultures.…”

Visual Aesthetic Sensitivity and Intelligence

“…Previous work on the Visual Aesthetic Sensitivity Test (VAST) has concerned the construction and psychometric properties of the test ( 4 ) , cross-cultural comparisons between England and Japan ( 5 ) , and cross-cultural comparison between Hong Kong children and adults, and English and Japanese samples ( I ) , and a Chinese sample from Singapore with an English sample ( 2 ) .…”

“…In a recent study ( 2 ) we had worked with the third version of the VAST. Eysenck suggested this particular version was too difficult, and that perhaps a longer version, containing an additional number of easy items, might give higher reliability than the test as presently constituted.…”