Does Flower Preference Differ Across Cultures? A Study of Czech and Kenyan Populations

Result code in IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216208%3A11310%2F24%3A10480869" target="_blank" >RIV/00216208:11310/24:10480869 - isvavai.cz</a>

Result on the web

<a href="https://verso.is.cuni.cz/pub/verso.fpl?fname=obd_publikace_handle&handle=PrBqqu.I8n" target="_blank" >https://verso.is.cuni.cz/pub/verso.fpl?fname=obd_publikace_handle&handle=PrBqqu.I8n</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/aca0000645" target="_blank" >10.1037/aca0000645</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Does Flower Preference Differ Across Cultures? A Study of Czech and Kenyan Populations

Original language description

Despite the ubiquity of floral themes and motifs in art and culture, human esthetic responses to flowers remain a largely unexplored area of research. Our previous studies revealed that Czechs, irrespective of gender, age, education, or level of expertise, display very similar esthetic responses to flowers of diverse shapes and colors, that is, they like and dislike the same flowers. We wanted to explore further whether these findings are culturally or ecologically dependent. This study compares the flower preferences of the inhabitants of two culturally, geographically, and ecologically highly distinct countries-Czechia (n = 54 and n = 48) and Kenya (n = 54). We asked each subject to rank photographs of 40 species of Czech flowers from the most liked one to the least liked one. We then computed the mean ranking of each flower species in the Kenyan and Czech samples and compared them. We found a very strong positive correlation (r = .79 and r = .77) between the samples, suggesting that Czechs and Kenyans prefer the same flowers. This concordance was unexpected, especially given the small sample sizes and the large differences between them. Moreover, the Czech flower species used as stimuli were probably familiar to Czechs but unknown to Kenyans. Thus, our results suggest that cultural and individual factors might play only a minor role in flower preference, whereas more general inborn preferences may be more important.

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

10602 - Biology (theoretical, mathematical, thermal, cryobiology, biological rhythm), Evolutionary biology

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2024

Confidentiality

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

Name of the periodical

Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts

ISSN

1931-3896

e-ISSN

1931-390X

Volume of the periodical

18

Issue of the periodical within the volume

1

Country of publishing house

US - UNITED STATES

Number of pages

12

Pages from-to

31-42

UT code for WoS article

001109356900001

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85183426124