Human responses to live snakes and their photographs: Evaluation of beauty and fear of the king snakes

Kód výsledku v IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216208%3A11310%2F12%3A10100706" target="_blank" >RIV/00216208:11310/12:10100706 - isvavai.cz</a>

Výsledek na webu

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvp.2011.10.005" target="_blank" >http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvp.2011.10.005</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvp.2011.10.005" target="_blank" >10.1016/j.jenvp.2011.10.005</a>

Jazyk výsledku

angličtina

Název v původním jazyce

Human responses to live snakes and their photographs: Evaluation of beauty and fear of the king snakes

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

Animals are ancestrally important stimuli for us and thus, we pay disproportional attention to them over other objects. Some of them, like snakes, attract attention as well as elicit fear reactions. We assessed human aesthetic preferences and fear reaction aroused by 20 forms of king snakes, represented by live snakes and their photographs. There was no correlation between the beauty and fear response exuded by live snakes, which indicates that these are two independent processes. Evaluation of live snakes tightly correlated with the results obtained from photographs in both beauty and fear tasks. Respondents evaluated aposematic (black-and-white/yellow-red striped) and purely black species as the most fear-evoking, which is discussed in an evolutionary framework. Interestingly, irrespective of the actual task, i.e. evaluation of beauty or fear, respondents categorized the species within similar clusters (cognitive categories).

Název v anglickém jazyce

Human responses to live snakes and their photographs: Evaluation of beauty and fear of the king snakes

Popis výsledku anglicky

Animals are ancestrally important stimuli for us and thus, we pay disproportional attention to them over other objects. Some of them, like snakes, attract attention as well as elicit fear reactions. We assessed human aesthetic preferences and fear reaction aroused by 20 forms of king snakes, represented by live snakes and their photographs. There was no correlation between the beauty and fear response exuded by live snakes, which indicates that these are two independent processes. Evaluation of live snakes tightly correlated with the results obtained from photographs in both beauty and fear tasks. Respondents evaluated aposematic (black-and-white/yellow-red striped) and purely black species as the most fear-evoking, which is discussed in an evolutionary framework. Interestingly, irrespective of the actual task, i.e. evaluation of beauty or fear, respondents categorized the species within similar clusters (cognitive categories).

Druh

J_x - Nezařazeno - Článek v odborném periodiku (Jimp, Jsc a Jost)

CEP obor

EG - Zoologie

OECD FORD obor

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Projekt

Výsledek vznikl pri realizaci vícero projektů. Více informací v záložce Projekty.

Návaznosti

P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)<br>Z - Vyzkumny zamer (s odkazem do CEZ)

Rok uplatnění

2012

Kód důvěrnosti údajů

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

Název periodika

Journal of Environmental Psychology

ISSN

0272-4944

e-ISSN

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Svazek periodika

32

Číslo periodika v rámci svazku

1

Stát vydavatele periodika

US - Spojené státy americké

Počet stran výsledku

9

Strana od-do

69-77

Kód UT WoS článku

000300141500009

EID výsledku v databázi Scopus

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