Artistic creation as stimulated by superimposed versus separated visual images

Datos Bibliográficos

ID6205825
AutoresRobert Sobel (autor de correspondencia), Robert S Sobel, Albert Rothenberg
Año1980
Volumen39
Número5
Páginas953-961
Fecha de publicación1980-11-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaJournal of Personality and Social Psychology (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0022-3514 • E-ISSN: 1939-1315
EditorialAmerican Psychological Association (APA) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1037//0022-3514.39.5.953
PMID7441484
OpenAlexW1966174618
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas15
Referencias citadas4

An experiment was performed to examine the role of homospatial thinking in visual art. Each of 43 university-level art students produced three drawing stimulated by pairs of slides. Subjects were randomly assigned to view the pairs either superimposed on one another or separated on the screen. Drawings were independently judged by two internationally noted artists. As predicted, drawings containing an element from each component image intermingled were higher in creative potential when stimulated by the superimposed presentation; however, when sketches from either condition did not clearly contain images from both slides, the separated image presentation yielded the more creative result. Although results favor the hypothesis in part, the overall ambiguity of the data illustrates some of the difficulties in studying creative thought processes under experimental conditions.

Ambiguity · Art · Cognitive psychology · Creativity · Linguistics · Presentation (obstetrics · Visual arts · Aesthetic Perception and Analysis · Art Education and Development · Creativity in Education and Neuroscience · Philosophy · Psychology · Social Psychology