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      Familiarity and Novelty in Aesthetic Preference: The Effects of the Properties of the Artwork and the Beholder

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          Familiarity and novelty are fundamental yet competing factors influencing aesthetic preference. However, whether people prefer familiar paintings or novel paintings has not been clear. Using both behavioral and eye-tracking measures, the present study aimed to investigate whether the effect of familiarity-novelty on aesthetic preference is independent or dependent on artwork properties (painting content, visual complexity) and viewer characteristics (experience in art). Participants were presented with two images of paintings, one of which was repeatedly presented but was always paired with a new painting in a randomized lateral arrangement. They were asked to indicate which of the two images they preferred with the degree of their preference. Behavioral results demonstrated an interactive influence of painting content and complexity on familiarity-novelty preference, especially alongside the distinction between representational and abstract paintings. Also, the familiarity-novelty preference was modulated by the degree of art experience, for abstract paintings in particular. Gaze results showed the differential effects of painting content, complexity, and art experience echoing the behavioral results. Taken together, the convergent results derived from behavioral and eye-tracking measures imply that novelty is an important feature of aesthetic appreciation, but its influence is modulated by properties of both the artwork and the beholder.

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                Journal
                Front Psychol
                Front Psychol
                Front. Psychol.
                Frontiers in Psychology
                Frontiers Media S.A.
                1664-1078
                23 July 2021
                2021
                : 12
                : 694927
                Affiliations
                School of Psychology, Korea University , Seoul, South Korea
                Author notes

                Edited by: Claus-Christian Carbon, University of Bamberg, Germany

                Reviewed by: Benno Belke, University of Vienna, Austria; Paul Rodway, University of Chester, United Kingdom

                *Correspondence: Chai-Youn Kim chaikim@ 123456korea.ac.kr

                This article was submitted to Perception Science, a section of the journal Frontiers in Psychology

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                10.3389/fpsyg.2021.694927
                8345014
                34367021
                a9879b1b-894c-4966-9ec3-dc2d0bc14b70
                Copyright © 2021 Song, Kwak and Kim.

                This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.

                History
                : 14 April 2021
                : 24 June 2021
                Page count
                Figures: 6, Tables: 4, Equations: 0, References: 129, Pages: 20, Words: 15371
                Funding
                Funded by: National Research Foundation of Korea 10.13039/501100003725
                Categories
                Psychology
                Original Research

                Clinical Psychology & Psychiatry
                preference,paintings,familiarity,novelty,content,visual complexity,art experience

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