Ege Emek
Is beauty in the eye of the beholder? Examining the role of visual sensitivity in understanding individual differences in appreciation
Master’s thesis student in Psychology · 2025-2027
To what extent can differences in how we visually perceive images and patterns explain differences in how we appreciate them? In this thesis, we investigate how sensitivity for differences in visual stimulus features (e.g., color, shape, size, orientation) may relate to difference in appreciation of order and complexity on these feature dimensions. Stimuli will be created using the Order & Complexity Toolbox for Aesthetics (OCTA; Van Geert, Bossens, & Wagemans, 2023). We will conduct laboratory and/or online experiments including simple or more advanced psychophysical tasks, aesthetic preference tasks, and questionnaires to characterize individual’s perceptual and aesthetic processing abilities and experience.