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Three groups of artists, including dance and art students and art professors, did not differ from each other or from two groups of nonartists on physiognomic, imagery, aesthetic, and creativity measures. The 65 subjects’ physiognomic perception did differ as a function of their aesthetic scores: Aesthetic subjects had higher physiognomic scores than nonaesthetic subjects. These results suggest that people’s capacity to respond to the arts depends more on certain cognitive skills than on artistic training.
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Bilotta, J., Lindauer, M.S. Artistic and nonartistic backgrounds as determinants of the cognitive response to the arts. Bull. Psychon. Soc. 15, 354–356 (1980). https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03334556
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