Give Me Gestalt! Preference for Cubist Artworks Revealing High Detectability of Objects

Muth, Claudia; Pepperell, Robert; Carbon, Claus-Christian

doi:10.1162/leon_a_00649

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“…Some will meet this challenge with indifference. For others, it might appear as a playful and exciting endeavor to shape one's identity, probably on basis of the mere attempt to bring order into the story (see the “Aesthetic Aha” effect in Muth and Carbon, 2013), although a final solution might not be the ultimate source of reward (Muth and Carbon, 2013; Muth et al, in press). Embracing this full range might help to understand why conspiracy theories are not a well-separated niche of psychology and society—but, according to our data, pervasive.…”

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Thirty shades of truth: conspiracy theories as stories of individuation, not of pathological delusion

Raab¹,

Ortlieb²,

Auer³

et al. 2013

Front. Psychol.

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Recent studies on conspiracy theories employ standardized questionnaires, thus neglecting their narrative qualities by reducing them to mere statements. Recipients are considered as consumers only. Two empirical studies—a conventional survey (n = 63) and a study using the method of narrative construction (n = 30)—which were recently conducted by the authors of this paper—suggest that the truth about conspiracy theories is more complex. Given a set of statements about a dramatic historic event (in our case 9/11) that includes official testimonies, allegations to a conspiracy and extremely conspiratorial statements, the majority of participants created a narrative of 9/11 they deemed plausible that might be considered a conspiracy theory. The resulting 30 idiosyncratic stories imply that no clear distinction between official story and conspiratorial narrative is possible any more when the common approach of questionnaires is abandoned. Based on these findings, we present a new theoretical and methodological approach which acknowledges conspiracy theories as a means of constructing and communicating a set of personal values. While broadening the view upon such theories, we stay compatible with other approaches that have focused on extreme theory types. In our view, accepting conspiracy theories as a common, regulative and possibly benign phenomenon, we will be better able to understand why some people cling to immunized, racist and off-wall stories—and others do not.

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Thirty shades of truth: conspiracy theories as stories of individuation, not of pathological delusion

Raab¹,

Ortlieb²,

Auer³

et al. 2013

Front. Psychol.

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“…The idea that increases in fluency, or the reduction of disfluency, due to stimulus elaboration have positive effects on aesthetic appreciation is also empirically supported Muth, Pepperell, & Carbon, 2013). , for instance, analyzed whether aesthetic appreciation benefits from perceptual insights, also referred to as the "Aesthetic Aha Effect," during the elaboration of indeterminate stimuli.…”

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A Dual-Process Perspective on Fluency-Based Aesthetics

Graf

Landwehr

2015

Pers Soc Psychol Rev

225

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In this article, we develop an account of how aesthetic preferences can be formed as a result of two hierarchical, fluency-based processes. Our model suggests that processing performed immediately upon encountering an aesthetic object is stimulus driven, and aesthetic preferences that accrue from this processing reflect aesthetic evaluations of pleasure or displeasure. When sufficient processing motivation is provided by a perceiver's need for cognitive enrichment and/or the stimulus' processing affordance, elaborate perceiver-driven processing can emerge, which gives rise to fluency-based aesthetic evaluations of interest, boredom, or confusion. Because the positive outcomes in our model are pleasure and interest, we call it the Pleasure-Interest Model of Aesthetic Liking (PIA Model). Theoretically, this model integrates a dual-process perspective and ideas from lay epistemology into processing fluency theory, and it provides a parsimonious framework to embed and unite a wealth of aesthetic phenomena, including contradictory preference patterns for easy versus difficult-to-process aesthetic stimuli.

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“…Fortunately, we are not only equipped with a cognitive mechanism helping us to perceive such Gestalts, but we also feel rewarded when having recognized them as Gestalts despite indeterminate patterns (Muth et al, 2013): in the moment of the insight for a Gestalt the now determinate pattern gains liking (the so-called “Aesthetic-Aha-effect”, Muth and Carbon, 2013). The detection and recognition process adds affective value to the pattern which leads to the activation of even more cognitive energy to deal with it as it now means something to us.…”

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Understanding human perception by human-made illusions

Carbon

2014

Front. Hum. Neurosci.

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It may be fun to perceive illusions, but the understanding of how they work is even more stimulating and sustainable: They can tell us where the limits and capacity of our perceptual apparatus are found—they can specify how the constraints of perception are set. Furthermore, they let us analyze the cognitive sub-processes underlying our perception. Illusions in a scientific context are not mainly created to reveal the failures of our perception or the dysfunctions of our apparatus, but instead point to the specific power of human perception. The main task of human perception is to amplify and strengthen sensory inputs to be able to perceive, orientate and act very quickly, specifically and efficiently. The present paper strengthens this line of argument, strongly put forth by perceptual pioneer Richard L. Gregory (e.g., Gregory, 2009), by discussing specific visual illusions and how they can help us to understand the magic of perception.

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Give Me Gestalt! Preference for Cubist Artworks Revealing High Detectability of Objects

Cited by 39 publications

References 9 publications

Thirty shades of truth: conspiracy theories as stories of individuation, not of pathological delusion

Thirty shades of truth: conspiracy theories as stories of individuation, not of pathological delusion

A Dual-Process Perspective on Fluency-Based Aesthetics

Understanding human perception by human-made illusions

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