#3219. The role of working memory capacity in evaluative judgments of liking and beauty

July 2026publication date
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Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous);
Developmental and Educational Psychology;
Experimental and Cognitive Psychology;
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Abstract:
Judgments of liking and beauty appear to be expressions of a common hedonic state, but they differ in how they engage cognitive processes. The research underlines that beauty judgments place greater demands on limited executive resources than judgments of liking. The scholars tested this hypothesis by asking two groups of participants to judge works of visual art for their beauty or liking. The results show that the greater participants’ working memory capacity, the faster they completed the working memory task when judging liking, but not when judging beauty. The research provides evidence that judging beauty draws more on working memory resources than judging liking.
Keywords:
Aesthetic judgment; beauty; liking; working memory; working memory capacity

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