Natural Scenes Are Indeed Preferred, but Image Quality Might Have the Last Word

Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 52-56

  Tinio, Pablo P L ^a   Leder, Helmut ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

aesthetics; image manipulation; image quality; natural scenes; photography

Indexed keywords

EID: 71549142255     PISSN: 19313896     EISSN: 1931390X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0014835     Document Type: Article

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