All is beautiful? Generality vs. specificity of word usage in visual aesthetics

Acta Psychologica

Volumn 139, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 187-201

  Augustin, M Dorothee ^a   Wagemans, Johan ^a   Carbon, Claus Christian ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BAMBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Concepts; Empirical aesthetics; Terminology; Word usage

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; ESTHETICS; HUMAN; LINGUISTICS; MALE; NOMENCLATURE; VISION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ESTHETICS; HUMANS; MALE; TERMINOLOGY AS TOPIC; VISUAL PERCEPTION; VOCABULARY;

EID: 84655160891     PISSN: 00016918     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.actpsy.2011.10.004     Document Type: Article

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