Lee Hachoung, Oh Songjoo
a Department of Psychology , College of Social Science, Seoul National University , Seoul , Korea.
Laterality. 2016;21(1):1-11. doi: 10.1080/1357650X.2015.1047782. Epub 2015 Aug 24.
It has been suggested that reading/writing habits may influence the appreciation of pictures. For example, people who read and write in a rightward direction have an aesthetic preference for pictures that face rightward over pictures that face leftward, and vice versa. However, correlations for this phenomenon have only been found in cross-cultural studies. Will a directional change in reading/writing habits within a culture relate to changes in picture preference? Korea is a good place to research this question because the country underwent gradual changes in reading/writing direction habits, from leftward to rightward, during the 20th century. In this study, we analyzed the direction of drawings and photos published in the two oldest newspapers in Korea from 1920-2013. The results show that the direction of the drawings underwent a clear shift from the left to the right, but the direction of the photos did not change. This finding suggests a close psychological link between the habits of reading/writing and drawing that cannot be accounted for simply by an accidental correspondence across different cultures.
有人提出，阅读/写作习惯可能会影响对图片的欣赏。例如，习惯从右向左阅读和写作的人在审美上更喜欢面向右方的图片，而不是面向左方的图片，反之亦然。然而，这种现象的相关性仅在跨文化研究中被发现。一种文化中阅读/写作习惯的方向变化会与图片偏好的变化相关吗？韩国是研究这个问题的一个好地方，因为在20世纪，该国的阅读/写作方向习惯经历了从左到右的逐渐变化。在这项研究中，我们分析了1920年至2013年韩国两份最古老报纸上发表的绘画和照片的方向。结果表明，绘画的方向经历了从左到右的明显转变，但照片的方向没有变化。这一发现表明，阅读/写作习惯与绘画习惯之间存在密切的心理联系，而不能简单地用不同文化之间的偶然对应来解释。
