Responses to Photos (04-08-24)
Vissers and Wagemans evaluated how people respond to photographs. They share that their work “focus[ed] on a varied set of 58 contemporary artistic photographs (selected by expert judges) and . . . examine[d] how 259 nonexperts aesthetically experience these photographs, whether contextual changes can impact their aesthetic preferences, and whether participants’ preferences relate to their emotional responses and how they were making meaning of the photographs.