Affiliation:
1. University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK
2. University of Menoufia, Menoufia, Egypt
Abstract
The aesthetic appeal of symmetry has been noted and discussed by artists,
historians and scientists. To what extent this appeal is universal is a
difficult question to answer. From a theoretical perspective, cross-cultural
comparisons are important, because similarities would support the
universality of the response to symmetry. Some pioneering work has focussed
on comparisons between Britain and Egypt (Soueif & Eysenck, 1971, 1972),
including both experts and naive subjects. These studies confirmed some
degree of universal agreement in preferences for simple abstract symmetry. We
revisited this comparison after almost half a century. We compared
preferences of na?ve students in Egypt (n = 200) and Britain (n= 200) for 6
different classes of symmetry in novel, abstract stimuli. We used three
different measurements of complexity: Gif ratio, Edge length and the average
cell size (average blob size, ABS). The results support Soueif & Eysenck?s
findings regarding preferences for reflectional and rotational symmetry,
however they also throw new light on a greater preference for simplicity in
Egyptian participants already noted by Soueif & Eysenck (1971).
Publisher
National Library of Serbia
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