Esthetic Fatigue in Ranking
- 1 June 1956
- journal article
- research article
- Published by University of Illinois Press in The American Journal of Psychology
- Vol. 69 (2) , 285-287
- https://doi.org/10.2307/1418161
Abstract
Guilford and Woodworth give as one disadvantage of paired comparison and ranking methods, the esthetic fatigue generated by S''s making a large number of judgments. This factor was studied by requiring Ss to rank and re-rank a series of 12 colored paintings. Between these two rankings, S ranked 0, 1, 2, 3, or 4 other series of 12 paintings. "The correlation between a judge''s first... and his second ranking... is a decreasing rectilinear function ..." of the number of interpolated rankings. The experiment does not reveal whether this is a result of esthetic fatigue, of retroactive inhibition, or of some other psychological phenomenon.Keywords
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