"The effect of expertise on the creation and evaluation of visual compositions in terms of creativity and beauty" by Yejeong Mutter & Ronald Hübner

Summary

This study investigates how expertise influences the creation and evaluation of visual compositions, focusing on creativity and beauty. Two experiments, each with production and evaluation phases, compared expert and non-expert participants' abilities to create and judge aesthetically pleasing and creative pictures. The findings reveal that expertise significantly impacts creativity assessments, with experts demonstrating superior predictive ability regarding the creativity of others' work. However, judgments of beauty showed broad agreement between experts and non-experts, highlighting a distinction between these aesthetic dimensions. The research utilises a modified Consensual Assessment Technique (CAT) and explores concepts of prototypicality and novelty within dual-process models of aesthetic experience.