Phil Russell
Biographic Data
| ID | 5855910 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Phil Russell |
| GIVEN NAMES | Phil |
| FAMILY NAME | Russell |
| SIGNATURE | RUSSELL P |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Aberdeen |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 12 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 8 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1971 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Effort after meaning and the hedonic value of paintings
Two experiments tested the prediction that providing the viewer with information about abstract and semi-abstract paintings, in the form of titles and descriptions, would increase the paintings' perceived meaningfulness and hedonic value. The meaningfulness prediction was supported in both experiments. The results of one experiment, using a between-participants design, failed to support the hedonic value prediction, but the results of the other, …
Ranking or rating? Some data and their implications for the measurement of evaluative response
Two groups of 80 subjects rated 15 paintings on a five‐point pleasingness scale in accordance with a ‘relative’ instruction, requiring them to compare the paintings with one another, or an ‘absolute’ instruction, requiring them to compare the paintings with other, familiar ‘anchor’ paintings. Each subject also ranked the paintings on pleasingness, either before or after doing the ratings. Within‐subject correlations between ranks and ratings reve…
Memory for music
A music recognition test was used to explore the effect of several musical dimensions and listener‐related factors on memory for music. Twenty short pieces of instrumental music (modern jazz) which had been heard once previously were mixed with 20 similar distractor pieces and subjects asked to indicate which pieces had been heard before. Music which had been independently rated as familiar‐sounding, melodic, pleasing and of low complexity was mo…
Relationships Between Exploratory Behaviour and Fear
Two main theories of the relationship between exploratory behaviour and anxiety or fearfulness are: ( a ) ‘Two‐factor theory’, according to which novel stimuli evoke both curiosity and fear/anxiety, with exploration as the outcome of competing tendencies to approach and avoid, and ( b ) the ‘Halliday‐Lester theory’, where the fear aroused by novelty results in either approach (low fear) or avoidance (high fear). Relevant evidence comes from anima…
Effects of Maternal Separation and Maternal Disturbance on Offspring Growth and Behavior in Rats
The effects of removing the mothers from rat litters for an hour a day on days 3 to 9 (separation treatment) were evaluated against effects for litters where the mothers were removed and immediately replaced (disturbance) and undisturbed controls. There were no consistent differences between the groups in the open-field, but separated and disturbed litters were heavier than controls as adults and not different from one another. At weaning, separa…
Open‐field Defecation in Rats
Correlations were computed between defecation and ambulation scores from the open‐field test, body weight, and the basal defecation level as measured over a 5‐day period in the animals' home cages for male and female hooded rats. The pattern of correlations indicates a sex difference in the ‘meaning’ of open‐field defecation which appears to be a valid emotionality index only in females. In males the score correlates positively with body weight a…
Pen‐field Behaviour in Rats
The effects of pre‐weaning handling, sex and repeated testing on the open‐field behaviour of rats were consistent with existing reports and with the interpretation of the defecation and ambulation measures as inversely related indices of emotionality. The main finding replicated a report that although handled rats increase their ambulation with repeated testing in a fashion concordant with the observed drop in defecation, non‐handled rats show an…
"Infantile stimulation" in rodents
Effort after meaning and the hedonic value of paintings
Two experiments tested the prediction that providing the viewer with information about abstract and semi-abstract paintings, in the form of titles and descriptions, would increase the paintings' perceived meaningfulness and hedonic value. The meaningfulness prediction was supported in both experiments. The results of one experiment, using a between-participants design, failed to support the hedonic value prediction, but the results of the other, …
Ranking or rating? Some data and their implications for the measurement of evaluative response
Two groups of 80 subjects rated 15 paintings on a five‐point pleasingness scale in accordance with a ‘relative’ instruction, requiring them to compare the paintings with one another, or an ‘absolute’ instruction, requiring them to compare the paintings with other, familiar ‘anchor’ paintings. Each subject also ranked the paintings on pleasingness, either before or after doing the ratings. Within‐subject correlations between ranks and ratings reve…
Pen‐field Behaviour in Rats
The effects of pre‐weaning handling, sex and repeated testing on the open‐field behaviour of rats were consistent with existing reports and with the interpretation of the defecation and ambulation measures as inversely related indices of emotionality. The main finding replicated a report that although handled rats increase their ambulation with repeated testing in a fashion concordant with the observed drop in defecation, non‐handled rats show an…
"Infantile stimulation" in rodents
Pen‐field Behaviour in Rats
The effects of pre‐weaning handling, sex and repeated testing on the open‐field behaviour of rats were consistent with existing reports and with the interpretation of the defecation and ambulation measures as inversely related indices of emotionality. The main finding replicated a report that although handled rats increase their ambulation with repeated testing in a fashion concordant with the observed drop in defecation, non‐handled rats show an…
Relationships Between Exploratory Behaviour and Fear
Two main theories of the relationship between exploratory behaviour and anxiety or fearfulness are: ( a ) ‘Two‐factor theory’, according to which novel stimuli evoke both curiosity and fear/anxiety, with exploration as the outcome of competing tendencies to approach and avoid, and ( b ) the ‘Halliday‐Lester theory’, where the fear aroused by novelty results in either approach (low fear) or avoidance (high fear). Relevant evidence comes from anima…
Effects of Maternal Separation and Maternal Disturbance on Offspring Growth and Behavior in Rats
The effects of removing the mothers from rat litters for an hour a day on days 3 to 9 (separation treatment) were evaluated against effects for litters where the mothers were removed and immediately replaced (disturbance) and undisturbed controls. There were no consistent differences between the groups in the open-field, but separated and disturbed litters were heavier than controls as adults and not different from one another. At weaning, separa…
Open‐field Defecation in Rats
Correlations were computed between defecation and ambulation scores from the open‐field test, body weight, and the basal defecation level as measured over a 5‐day period in the animals' home cages for male and female hooded rats. The pattern of correlations indicates a sex difference in the ‘meaning’ of open‐field defecation which appears to be a valid emotionality index only in females. In males the score correlates positively with body weight a…
Memory for music
A music recognition test was used to explore the effect of several musical dimensions and listener‐related factors on memory for music. Twenty short pieces of instrumental music (modern jazz) which had been heard once previously were mixed with 20 similar distractor pieces and subjects asked to indicate which pieces had been heard before. Music which had been independently rated as familiar‐sounding, melodic, pleasing and of low complexity was mo…
Ranking or rating? Some data and their implications for the measurement of evaluative response
Two groups of 80 subjects rated 15 paintings on a five‐point pleasingness scale in accordance with a ‘relative’ instruction, requiring them to compare the paintings with one another, or an ‘absolute’ instruction, requiring them to compare the paintings with other, familiar ‘anchor’ paintings. Each subject also ranked the paintings on pleasingness, either before or after doing the ratings. Within‐subject correlations between ranks and ratings reve…
Effort after meaning and the hedonic value of paintings
Two experiments tested the prediction that providing the viewer with information about abstract and semi-abstract paintings, in the form of titles and descriptions, would increase the paintings' perceived meaningfulness and hedonic value. The meaningfulness prediction was supported in both experiments. The results of one experiment, using a between-participants design, failed to support the hedonic value prediction, but the results of the other, …
Psychology (8 works) · Developmental psychology (6 works) · Neuroendocrine regulation and behavior (4 works) · Social Psychology (4 works) · Cognitive psychology (3 works) · Mathematics (3 works) · Open field (3 works) · Statistics (3 works) · Aesthetic Perception and Analysis (2 works) · Animal Behavior and Welfare Studies (2 works)