id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt work_tvpopkdqbbhjrhm247n7vn5ae4 Megan Sanders Is better beautiful or is beautiful better? Exploring the relationship between beauty and category structure 2012 8 .pdf application/pdf 5359 444 62 Abstract We evaluate two competing accounts of the relationship between beauty and category structure. to the similarity-based view, beauty arises from category In the present study, subjects learned to categorize abstract paintings into meaningfully labeled categories and rated the paintings' beauty, value, and typicality. the theory-based view, beautiful paintings were treated as (Eagly, Ashmore, Makhijani, & Longo, 1991; Feingold, and typicality will differ between the art museum and student art show category labels. that stimulus grouping should affect perceptions of typicality, processing fluency, and subjects' perceptions of beauty. typicality and, by extension, processing fluency for paintings assigned the art museum category label—a label associated with prior expectations of beauty. did not impact painting beauty, both similarityand theorybased factors may influence category typicality structure. line with a theory-based view, which would predict a relationship between beauty and typicality only in positive Category structure affects processing fluency and perceptions of typicality, but not beauty ./cache/work_tvpopkdqbbhjrhm247n7vn5ae4.pdf ./txt/work_tvpopkdqbbhjrhm247n7vn5ae4.txt