The main aim of this research was to examine the role of optimism-pessimism, general trust and belief in conspiracy theories, in COVID-19 related fears, preventive and hoarding behaviors. We also ...examined the role of different sources of information in these relations. The convenience sample was used (N = 412) and it consisted of individuals from Serbia (N = 292) and Latin-America (N = 120). Following instruments were used: The Life Orientation Test (Scheier, Carver, & Bridges, 1994), Trust in people scale (Arbor, 1964), questions regarding fear, source of information, preventive behaviors and conspiracy constructed for the purposes of this research. The results suggest that fear of food shortage was the most pronounces one in both samples, followed by fear for oneself and finally by the fear for beloved others. Results suggest that optimists, those with high level of general trust and those who do not believe in conspiracy theories show lower level of fear and higher level of preventive behaviors. Pessimists on the other hand, show higher level of fear. Fear was related to all information sources suggesting that more information leads to higher intensity of fear – except information from the president which did not show any effect.
The aim of this research was to examine the relation between the amount of information and hedonistic value, as well as the relation between the amount of information and the variables from ...Martindale's evolutionary theory: primordial content and arousal potential. The main presumption is that the amount of information can influence the estimation of those variables by the respondents. In order to check this presumption, an experiment with four groups of respondents was conducted. The first group knew nothing about the paintings, the second group knew the name of the author, the third group knew the name of the author and the description of the paintings, and the fourth group knew all of this information and the estimated price of the paintings. Paintings from different periods of art were shown to the respondents with Martindale's scales measuring primordial content and arousal potential and with a question measuring the hedonistic value of the paintings. The data were analyzed using the Kruskal-Wallis test. The results have shown that arousal potential, primordial content and hedonistic value differ when it comes to the "art movement". The results have also shown that additional information can influence the hedonistic value of the paintings and that more information leads to higher hedonistic value. Also, more information leads to higher arousal potential.
The painting of Katarina Radojlovic, gone too soon as it happens too often in life, carries inherently and by its nature the autobiographical features that do not allow factual interpretations and ...anecdotal storytelling. Furthermore, the painter’s need to touch the “impersonal” without losing her own identity, however paradoxical it may sound, makes difficult any attempt to classify or rank her artistic opus within the existing courses of the contemporary Serbian art scene. After all, what’s the point of classification since during the process of creating the author was crystal clear about her painting being first and foremost cosa mentale. It is actually a form of searching for her, dealing with loneliness and meaningless in an effort to rediscover the meaning of reality via work of art that will by its own standards seek to establish a relationship between form and function of visual expression. This effort, we would say, is quite clearly to be identified in the last cycles of her artistic opus: Theatre of Shadows, Moonlight Stories and Imprint of a Shadow.
The purpose of this study was to examine the differences between psychology students (N=270) and art students (N=90) in aesthetic evaluations of visual stimuli. The stimuli were obtained by ...Bartlett's method of individual serial reproduction of geometric, realistic and abstract drawings with additional instruction to increase originality. The assessments was performed on the following scales of semantic differential: arousal potential (AP), primordial content (PC), liking scale (DL) and artistic value scale (AV). Psychology students and art students do not differ in overall AP scores, but there is a statistically significant interaction of education type and type of stimuli. Psychology students give statistically higher average AP assessments to reproductions of realistic and abstract stimuli, and art students to geometric stimuli. Psychology students like the drawings obtained by "individual" reproduction more (DL) and give them a higher artistic value (AV) than the art students. This finding is in line with earlier research that respondents without art education have milder criteria, that is, art students are stricter evaluators. The findings are in line with Kozbelt's data that subjects without artistic education value more, and are therefore more interested in technical skill and realism, while "artists" primarily value originality (Kozbelt, 2006). It can be concluded that respondents without art education and respondents with art education show a similar trends in evaluating serial reproductions, but that they apply different aesthetic criteria and evaluation principles.
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