Do aesthetic preferences for images of neatly organized compositions (e.g., images collected on blogs like Things Organized Neatly©) generalize across cultures? In an earlier study, focusing on stimulus and personal properties related to order and complexity, Western participants indicated their preference for one of two simultaneously presented images (100 pairs). In the current study, we compared the data of the native Dutch-speaking participants from this earlier sample ( N = 356) to newly collected data from a native Chinese-speaking sample ( N = 220). Overall, aesthetic preferences were quite similar across cultures. When relating preferences for each sample to ratings of order, complexity, soothingness, and fascination collected from a Western, mainly Dutch-speaking sample, the results hint at a cross-culturally consistent preference for images that Western participants rate as more ordered, but a cross-culturally diverse relation between preferences and complexity.

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对排列整齐的作品的审美偏好的跨文化比较：母语汉语与母语荷兰语样本

对组织整齐的构图图像有审美偏好（例如，在“事物组织整齐”等博客上收集的图像）©）跨文化推广？在早期的一项研究中，重点关注与秩序和复杂性相关的刺激和个人属性，西方参与者表示他们更喜欢两个同时呈现的图像（100 对）中的一个。在当前的研究中，我们将早期样本中荷兰语母语参与者的数据 (N = 356) 与新收集的汉语母语样本 (N = 220) 中的数据进行了比较。总体而言，不同文化之间的审美偏好非常相似。当将每个样本的偏好与从西方（主要是荷兰语样本）收集的秩序、复杂性、舒缓性和魅力的评级联系起来时，结果暗示了跨文化上对图像的一致偏好，西方参与者认为这些图像更有序，但偏好和复杂性之间的跨文化多样化关系。