Personality correlates of liking for 'unpleasant' paintings and photographs

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 34, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 395-410

  Rawlings, David ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Aesthetic preference; Openness; Painting preference; Psychoticism; Schizotypy; Sensation seeking

Indexed keywords

EID: 0037293913     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0191-8869(02)00062-4     Document Type: Article

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