The Experimental Psychology of Beauty

Table of contents

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• Title Page iii
• Preface v
• Contents vii
• Tables xii
• Illustrations xiii
• Chapter I Introduction 1
• Chapter II Colour and Colour Preferences 29
• Chapter III Attitudes to Colours and to Combinations of Colours 53
• Chapter IV Form: Lines, Shapes and Suggested Movement 71
• Chapter V Balance and Symmetry 93
• Chapter VI the Appearance of Aesthetic Appreciation in Young Children 110
• Chapter VII Early Experiments with Pictures 119
• Chapter VIII Further Experiments with Pictures and with Photographs of Objets D'Art 146
• Chapter IX Some Reactions to Modern Art 181
• Summary and Main Results of the Experiments on Modern Art 193
• Chapter X Musical Intervals and Attitudes to Music 196

• Title Page iii
• Preface v
• Contents vii
• Tables xii
• Illustrations xiii
• Chapter I Introduction 1
• Chapter II Colour and Colour Preferences 29
• Chapter III Attitudes to Colours and to Combinations of Colours 53
• Chapter IV Form: Lines, Shapes and Suggested Movement 71
• Chapter V Balance and Symmetry 93
• Chapter VI the Appearance of Aesthetic Appreciation in Young Children 110
• Chapter VII Early Experiments with Pictures 119
• Chapter VIII Further Experiments with Pictures and with Photographs of Objets D'Art 146
• Chapter IX Some Reactions to Modern Art 181
• Summary and Main Results of the Experiments on Modern Art 193
• Chapter X Musical Intervals and Attitudes to Music 196
• Summary of Chapter XI 228
• Summary of Chapter XI 279
• Chapter XII Music and the Expression of Emotions or "Meaning" 283
• Chapter XIII Experiments on the Appreciation of Poetry 318
• Chapter XIV Experiments with Modern Poetry 377
• Summary of the Wrexham Experiment Results 405
• Chapter XV Conclusion 413
• Appendix Correlations and Statistical Significance 424
• Index of Names 429
• Index of Subjects 434