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    "pk": 25755,
    "title": "Reading and writing direction effects on the aesthetic perception of photographs",
    "subtitle": null,
    "abstract": "Does the habitual reading and writing direction (RWD) affect\nthe aesthetic appreciation of visual art? Pérez González\n(2012) showed that 19th century Iranian and Spanish\nprofessional photographers manifest lateral biases linked to\nRWD in their compositions. The present study aimed to test\nwhether the general public shows similar biases, and under\nwhat conditions. Photographies with left-to-right (L-R) and\nright-to-left (R-L) directionality were selected from Pérez\nGonzález's collections and presented in both the original and\nmirror reversed forms to Spanish (L-R readers) and Moroccan\n(R-L readers) participants. In Experiment 1, participants rated\neach picture as to how aesthetically pleasing it was. The\nresults showed no interactions with RWD. In Experiment 2,\nwe presented each picture and its mirror version and asked the\nparticipants to choose which one they liked better. Now, clear\nbiases linked to RWD arose. RWD does affect aesthetic\nimpressions of photography in the general public, but only\nwhen people are paying attention to the lateral spatial\ndimension of the pictures.",
    "language": "eng",
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        "url": ""
    },
    "keywords": [
        {
            "word": "aesthetics"
        },
        {
            "word": "reading and writing direction"
        },
        {
            "word": "spatial\nbiases"
        },
        {
            "word": "left-right"
        },
        {
            "word": "Photography"
        },
        {
            "word": "fluency"
        }
    ],
    "section": "Papers",
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    "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/8zh8t8jk",
    "frozenauthors": [
        {
            "first_name": "Sobh",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Chahboun",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "Norwegian University of Science and Technology",
            "department": ""
        },
        {
            "first_name": "Andrea",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Flumini",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "University of Granada",
            "department": ""
        },
        {
            "first_name": "Carmen",
            "middle_name": "Perez",
            "last_name": "Gonzalez",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "Bergische Universität Wuppertal",
            "department": ""
        },
        {
            "first_name": "I",
            "middle_name": "Chris",
            "last_name": "McManus",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "University College London",
            "department": ""
        },
        {
            "first_name": "Julio",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Santiago",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "University of Granada",
            "department": ""
        }
    ],
    "date_submitted": null,
    "date_accepted": null,
    "date_published": "2015-01-01T18:00:00Z",
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}