{"id":2199,"date":"2018-09-29T11:22:21","date_gmt":"2018-09-29T19:22:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/enfascination.com\/weblog\/?p=2199"},"modified":"2018-09-30T22:44:16","modified_gmt":"2018-10-01T06:44:16","slug":"it-was-found-that-pairing-abstract-art-pieces-with-randomly-generated-pseudoprofound-titles-enhanced-the-perception-of-profoundness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/enfascination.com\/weblog\/post\/2199","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;It was found that pairing abstract art pieces with randomly generated pseudoprofound titles enhanced the perception of profoundness&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/enfascination.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/fake.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/enfascination.com\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/fake.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"652\" height=\"814\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2204\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nI was following up on the lit around Bullshit Receptivity (or &#8220;BSR&#8221;; <a href=\"http:\/\/journal.sjdm.org\/vol10.6.html\">http:\/\/journal.sjdm.org\/vol10.6.html<\/a>) and stumbled on this master&#8217;s thesis using it to evaluate modern art perceptions. Title quote is from the abstract<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/uwspace.uwaterloo.ca\/handle\/10012\/13746\">https:\/\/uwspace.uwaterloo.ca\/handle\/10012\/13746<\/a><br \/>\n(Can&#8217;t vouch for the research though; didn&#8217;t actually read the thesis). <\/p>\n<p>As someone who always cringes reading artist statements, and whose English-degree-holding proud pedantic jerk wife failed critical theory twice out of spite, this was pretty gratifying.<\/p>\n<p>Just one comment from the pedantic jerk: &#8220;Did they mean profundity?&#8221;<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was following up on the lit around Bullshit Receptivity (or &#8220;BSR&#8221;; http:\/\/journal.sjdm.org\/vol10.6.html) and stumbled on this master&#8217;s thesis using it to evaluate modern art perceptions. Title quote is from the abstract https:\/\/uwspace.uwaterloo.ca\/handle\/10012\/13746 (Can&#8217;t vouch for the research though; didn&#8217;t actually read the thesis). As someone who always cringes reading artist statements, and whose English-degree-holding &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/enfascination.com\/weblog\/post\/2199\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;It was found that pairing abstract art pieces with randomly generated pseudoprofound titles enhanced the perception of profoundness&#8221;<\/span><\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2204,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wpupg_custom_link":[],"wpupg_custom_link_behaviour":["default"],"wpupg_custom_image":[],"wpupg_custom_image_id":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/enfascination.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2199"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/enfascination.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/enfascination.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/enfascination.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/enfascination.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2199"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/enfascination.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2199\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2206,"href":"https:\/\/enfascination.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2199\/revisions\/2206"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/enfascination.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2204"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/enfascination.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/enfascination.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/enfascination.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}