Axelsson Osten
Institute of Environmental Medicine, Karolinska Institutet Department of Psychology, Stockholm University, Sweden.
Percept Mot Skills. 2007 Oct;105(2):411-34. doi: 10.2466/pms.105.2.411-434.
With the aim to contribute to the development of a psychology of photography, this study examined what attributes are the major determinants of aesthetic appeal of photographs. Two interlinked experiments were conducted with 564 photographs having a wide range of motifs. Exp. 1 consisted of sorting by aesthetic appeal and adjective generation. In Exp. 2, attribute scaling was collected. Multidimensional scaling analysis of the photographs yielded three dimensions identified with the aid of attribute scales combined with measures of the manifest content of the photographs. The three dimensions were Hedonic Tone-Familiarity, Absence of color, and Expressiveness-Dynamics. The present results suggested that participants' familiarity with the photographs, the types of photographs (Color or Black & White), and the photographs' dynamics all affected participants' judgments of aesthetic appeal. Hedonic Tone and Expressiveness apparently mediated the participants' judgments.
为推动摄影心理学的发展，本研究探讨了哪些属性是照片审美吸引力的主要决定因素。对564张主题广泛的照片进行了两项相互关联的实验。实验1包括按审美吸引力进行分类和生成形容词。在实验2中，收集了属性量表。对照片进行多维标度分析，借助属性量表并结合照片的显性内容测量，确定了三个维度。这三个维度分别是享乐色调-熟悉度、无色彩以及表现力-动态性。目前的结果表明，参与者对照片的熟悉程度、照片类型（彩色或黑白）以及照片的动态性都会影响参与者对审美吸引力的判断。享乐色调和表现力显然介导了参与者的判断。
