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Aptitude/physiology , Career Choice , Cognition/physiology , Gender Identity , Mathematics , Science , Adolescent , Adult , Educational Measurement/methods , Female , Humans , Male , Middle Aged , Personality/physiology , Personality Inventory , Problem Solving , Sex FactorsABSTRACT
59 art collectors (30 men, 29 women) were given the Gregorc Style Delineator to classify them by thinking styles and a questionnaire regarding their art preferences. Their ages ranged from 33 to 99 years (M=59.5 yr.). Abstract art was preferred by 34% of the sample. Representational art, such as Dutch Masters and Impressionism, was preferred by 66% of the sample. Of the collectors who preferred nonobjective abstract paintings, such as works by color field artists like Mark Rothko, and Abstract Expressionist paintings, such as works by Jackson Pollock, 62% had scores on the Gregorc Style Delineator by which they were classified as showing abstract thinking styles. Of the collectors who preferred representational painting, 86% were classified as showing concrete thinking styles.
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Art , Attitude , Choice Behavior , Cognition/physiology , Hobbies , Thinking , Adult , Aged , Aged, 80 and over , Female , Humans , Male , Middle Aged , Surveys and QuestionnairesABSTRACT
The Gregorc Style Delineator was administered to 26 full-time, professional engineers, all women. Participants preferred concrete thinking styles. This tendency is similar to scores on other measures in much larger samples of engineers for whom sex was not specified.
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Cognition , Engineering , Thinking , Adult , Female , Humans , Problem SolvingABSTRACT
It is speculated that certain listeners' misattribution of anger in the music of avant garde jazz saxophonists could be explained by the activity of mirror neurons. There is a neurological basis for the human tendency to imitate what is perceived in another person. This may lead to an inference that whatever comparable activity would be required to achieve a similar condition in the imitator is the condition being experienced by the person being imitated.
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Auditory Perception/physiology , Emotions/physiology , Motor Cortex/physiology , Music , Perceptual Distortion/physiology , Anger/physiology , Humans , Imagination/physiology , Neurons/physiology , Personal Construct Theory , Social PerceptionABSTRACT
27 art collectors (13 men, 14 women) completed the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator. Their age range was 37 to 86 years and the mean 59.5 yr. Seventy percent were classified as Intuition types instead of Sensation types (versus its 25% incidence in the general population). This corresponds to personality profiles of artists and the disproportionately high incidence of high scores on the related Openness to Experience factor in studies of creative personalities, thereby supporting the contention that persons creating art and appreciating art have personality traits in common.
