Children's responses to meaningful pictures varying in diversity: Exploration time vs. preference

Conflict, arousal, and curiosity.

1960 • 5,766 citations

Aesthetics and Psychobiology

1973 • 1,991 citations

Curiosity and Exploration

1966 • 1,049 citations

Aesthetics and Psychobiology

1978 • 689 citations

Analysis of exploratory, manipulatory, and curiosity behaviors.

1957 • 453 citations

Complexity and incongruity variables as determinants of exploratory choice and evaluative ratings.

1963 • 232 citations

Affect as a function of stimulus variation.

1966 • 171 citations

Specific and Diversive Exploration

1970 • 155 citations

Evaluations of subjective complexity, pleasingness and interestingness for a series of random polygons varying in complexity

1967 • 153 citations

Preference for different amounts of visual complexity

1966 • 144 citations

Amount of stimulus exploration and preference as differential functions of stimulus complexity

1968 • 134 citations

The dimensionality of visual complexity, interestingness, and pleasingness.

1968 • 115 citations

Exploratory Behavior and Human Development

1974 • 99 citations

Age and uncertainty: Developmental variation in preference for variability

1964 • 78 citations

Effects of Complexity and Incongruity Variables on Gsr, Investigatory Behavior, and Verbally Expressed Preference

1964 • 76 citations

Response by rats to differential stimulus complexity.

1957 • 76 citations

The semantic differential and other measures of reaction to visual complexity.

1966 • 53 citations

The Complexity of Complexity

1974 • 43 citations

PREFERENCES FOR RANDOM SHAPES: AGES SIX THROUGH NINETEEN YEARS

1966 • 38 citations

Preferences for Random Shapes: Ages Six Through Nineteen Years

1966 • 37 citations

Do Children Find Complex Patterns Interesting or Pleasing?

1974 • 21 citations

COMPLEXITY AND PREFERENCE IN ANIMALS AND MEN*

1970 • 20 citations

Unidirectional changes in preference for increasing visual complexity in the cat.

1969 • 13 citations

Looking time: a bibliography.

1968 • 11 citations

Preference for high variability in young children

1971 • 11 citations

Response technique as a factor in determining children’s preference for complexity

1968 • 11 citations

AGE DIFFERENCES IN PLEASANTNESS OF VISUAL PATTERNS OF DIFFERENT VARIABILITY IN LATE CHILDHOOD AND ADOLESCENCE

1971 • 5 citations

Age Differences in Pleasantness of Visual Patterns of Different Variability in Late Childhood and Adolescence

1971 • 4 citations