Valentino M A, Brown J W, Cronan-Hillix W A
Department of Psychology, San Diego State University, CA 92182-0350.
Percept Mot Skills. 1988 Oct;67(2):555-61. doi: 10.2466/pms.1988.67.2.555.
Aesthetic preferences for photographs with the main focal content either to the left or right of the photograph's center were examined in right- and left-handed subjects. Verbal responses or manual responses were required. In one experiment with 261 introductory psychology student-subjects, left-handers more often preferred photographs with the more important part on the left ("left-geared") than did right-handers. Exp. 2, involving 84 right-handed student subjects, showed that left-geared photographs presented on the left side were preferred more often than left-geared photographs presented on the right side, and left-geared photographs presented on the left side were more often chosen when a left-handed manual response was required. Interactions between handedness, position of the stimulus, language hemisphere, and response mode make it extremely difficult to ascertain whether the right hemisphere is really more involved in aesthetic decisions.
研究人员对右利手和左利手受试者针对主要焦点内容位于照片中心左侧或右侧的照片的审美偏好进行了研究。受试者需做出言语反应或手动反应。在一项有261名心理学入门课程学生受试者参与的实验中，左利手比右利手更常偏好重要部分在左侧的照片（“左倾”照片）。实验2有84名右利手学生受试者参与，结果显示，呈现于左侧的“左倾”照片比呈现于右侧的“左倾”照片更常被偏好，并且当需要做出左利手的手动反应时，呈现于左侧的“左倾”照片更常被选中。利手、刺激位置、语言半球和反应模式之间的相互作用使得很难确定右半球是否真的更多地参与审美决策。
