Beauty, elegance, grace, and sexiness compared
- 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.
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| Author: | Winfried MenninghausORCiDGND, Valentin Wagner, Vanessa Kegel, Christine Angela KnoopORCiDGND, Wolff Schlotz |
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| URN: | urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-503601 |
| DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0218728 |
| ISSN: | 1932-6203 |
| Pubmed Id: | https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31226137 |
| Parent Title (English): | PLoS one |
| Publisher: | PLoS |
| Place of publication: | Lawrence, Kan. |
| Contributor(s): | Brock Bastian |
| Document Type: | Article |
| Language: | English |
| Year of Completion: | 2019 |
| Date of first Publication: | 2019/06/21 |
| Publishing Institution: | Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg |
| Release Date: | 2019/06/24 |
| Tag: | Cognitive linguistics; Culture; Factor analysis; Legs; Linguistics; Perception; Psychometrics; Semantics |
| Volume: | 14 |
| Issue: | (6): e0218728 |
| Page Number: | 19 |
| First Page: | 1 |
| Last Page: | 19 |
| Note: | 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. |
| HeBIS-PPN: | 450922650 |
| Institutes: | Psychologie und Sportwissenschaften / Psychologie |
| Neuere Philologien / Neuere Philologien | |
| Angeschlossene und kooperierende Institutionen / MPI für empirische Ästhetik | |
| Dewey Decimal Classification: | 1 Philosophie und Psychologie / 15 Psychologie / 150 Psychologie |
| Sammlungen: | Universitätspublikationen |
| Licence (German): |  Creative Commons - Namensnennung 4.0 |
