13:30 - 15:00
Talk Session II
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13:30 - 15:00
Mon-HS1-Talk II-
Mon-Talk II-
Room: HS1
Chair/s:
Maria Manolika, Barbara E. Marschallek, Thomas Jacobsen
With the publication of Gustav Theodor Fechner’s Vorschule der Ästhetik, the year 1876 marks the beginning of Experimental Aesthetics, which is the second-oldest branch of Experimental Psychology. In his major work, Fechner suggested the study of aesthetics "from below", applying empirical knowledge. To date, the Experimental Aesthetics enjoys a growing number of researches from different fields of Psychology. The present symposia, therefore, comprise contributions investigating a variety of domains including, for example, live performances, materials, and tattoos, Furthermore, questions of the influence of several stimuli’s and individual’s characteristics, including but not
limited to complexity, memory resources, personality differences, and types of stimuli, are addressed.
The Big Five or the Dark Triad? Personality Correlates of Entertainment Preferences
Mon-HS1-Talk II-02
Presented by: Maria Manolika
Maria Manolika, Thomas Jacobsen
Experimental Psychology Unit of the Helmut Schmidt University/University of the Federal Armed Forces Hamburg
Can audience personality influence and probably shape their musical, movie, and reading preferences? Evidence suggests that the Big Five personality traits influence entertainment preferences, yet almost no attention has been devoted to understanding how personality traits beyond the Big Five relate to such preferences. Toward that end, this study aimed at examining how the Dark Triad of Machiavellianism, narcissism, and psychopathy may relate to entertainment preferences beyond the Big Five in a sample of young adults (N = 354). Hierarchical regression analyses revealed that although the Big Five personality traits contribute to understanding preferences for various genres of music, movies, and books, the dark traits of personality demonstrate incremental validity over the Big Five in the prediction of those preferences. These results suggest that while the Big Five personality traits are important in understanding entertainment preferences, the dark traits of personality matter as well. Such an interpretation clearly suggests the necessity to include a variety of personality traits beyond the Big Five in future entertainment research.
Keywords: Big Five, Dark Triad, entertainment preferences, personality