TY  - JOUR
A1  - Menninghaus, Winfried
A1  - Wagner, Valentin
A1  - Kegel, Vanessa
A1  - Knoop, Christine Angela
A1  - Schlotz, Wolff
T1  - Beauty, elegance, grace, and sexiness compared
T2  - PLoS one
N2  - Beauty is the single most frequently and most broadly used aesthetic virtue term. The present study aimed at providing higher conceptual resolution to the broader notion of beauty by comparing it with three closely related aesthetically evaluative concepts which are likewise lexicalized across many languages: elegance, grace(fulness), and sexiness. We administered a variety of questionnaires that targeted perceptual qualia, cognitive and affective evaluations, as well as specific object properties that are associated with beauty, elegance, grace, and sexiness in personal looks, movements, objects of design, and other domains. This allowed us to reveal distinct and highly nuanced profiles of how a beautiful, elegant, graceful, and sexy appearance is subjectively perceived. As aesthetics is all about nuances, the fine-grained conceptual analysis of the four target concepts of our study provides crucial distinctions for future research.
KW  - Culture
KW  - Semantics
KW  - Psychometrics
KW  - Factor analysis
KW  - Legs
KW  - Cognitive linguistics
KW  - Linguistics
KW  - Perception
Y1  - 2019
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/50360
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-503601
SN  - 1932-6203
N1  - Copyright: © 2019 Menninghaus et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
VL  - 14
IS  - (6): e0218728
SP  - 1
EP  - 19
PB  - PLoS
CY  - Lawrence, Kan.
ER  -