抄録
Although previous studies have examined what kind of object arrangement could give observer beautiful impression, they have not achieved agreement. While some studies found observers' preference for the arrangements whose centroids were congruent with the center of the picture frame, the other studies found the observers' preference for the arrangement whose centroids were in the right side in the frame. The main purpose of this study is to solve this disagreement among previous studies. We conducted three experiments in which concreteness of the picture was manipulated, and observers rated their impression for the pictures with different centroid position. We used black circles (Experiment 1), concrete objects on white background (Experiment 2), and concrete objects on backgrounds of natural scenes (Experiment 3). Only in Experiment 3, we found that observers consistently preferred for the pictures whose centroid of the arrangement was in right side. Our results indicate that concreteness of the pictures caused the biased preferencefor the right side of the pictures.
