Are the aesthetic preferences towards snake species already formed in pre-school aged children?

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Alternative codes found

RIV/00216208:11310/17:10359775

Result on the web

<a href="http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/17405629.2016.1144507" target="_blank" >http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/17405629.2016.1144507</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17405629.2016.1144507" target="_blank" >10.1080/17405629.2016.1144507</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Are the aesthetic preferences towards snake species already formed in pre-school aged children?

Original language description

This study explores aesthetic preferences towards boa and python species among pre-school children and adults, and compares the ratings between the two groups. A set of snake photographs was presented (56 species) to children and adult respondents. The respondents were asked to select the five most preferred and five least preferred species. The children’s agreement on which species were ‘beautiful’ and which were ‘ugly’ was statistically significant and a positive relationship between the mean ranks provided by children and adults was also found (r = .54, P &lt; .001). Children preferred species with thick necks and inconspicuous heads, usually small species, harmless to children. Large pythons probably posed more danger to children than they did to adults during human evolution in African savannas and therefore we hypothesize that young children’s aesthetic preferences were shaped by natural selection through interactions with dangerous snakes.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

50103 - Cognitive sciences

Project

<a href="/en/project/ED2.1.00%2F03.0078" target="_blank" >ED2.1.00/03.0078: National institute of Mental Health</a><br>

Continuities

P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Publication year

2017

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

European Journal of Developmental Psychology

ISSN

1740-5629

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

14

Issue of the periodical within the volume

1

Country of publishing house

GB - UNITED KINGDOM

Number of pages

16

Pages from-to

16-31

UT code for WoS article

000393805500002

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-84958063040