Beauty is context-dependent: Naturalness, familiarity, and semantic meaning influence the appreciation of geometric shapes

Rounded shapes are associated with softness and warmth, whereas Platonic solids are associated with hardness and coldness. We investigated the temperature-shape association through sensorial/conceptual qualities of geometric ice-like textured shapes. In Experiment 1, participants viewed symmetrical...

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Main Authors: Georgiana Juravle, Charles Spence
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SAGE Publishing 2024-11-01
Series:i-Perception
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1177/20416695241303004
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