title: Temporal stability and consistency of aesthetic judgments of beauty of formal graphic patterns.
abstract: Temporal stability and consistency of nonartists' aesthetic judgments of beauty of formal graphic patterns was assessed. Temporal stability decreased markedly over several months. When items were repeated in an aesthetic judgment task participants responded consistently over trials rather than performing genuine repeated aesthetic judgments of beauty.
authors.affiliation: Institut für Allgemeine Psychologie, Universität Leipzig, Germany.
authors.forename: Lea
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Höfel
authors.forename: Thomas
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Jacobsen
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001504:Beauty; D004954:Esthetics; D005260:Female; D005858:Germany; D006801:Humans; D007600:Judgment; D008297:Male; D009949:Orientation; D010364:Pattern Recognition, Visual; D011601:Psychophysics; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D012153:Retention, Psychology; D013334:Students / Q000523:psychology