John P. McLaughlin

Associate Professor 
Ph.D., New York University, 1965
johnmcl@udel.edu

Department of Psychology
Phone: (302) 831-2752: Office

Office: Room 213 Wolf Hall: (302) 831-3645: Fax


Research Interests

I am interested in aesthetic experience.   You may wish to see the web page for the Psychology of Aesthetics.  My research is primarily focused on responses to visual art and explores the impact of variables such as compositional configuration on different subgroups of observers, e.g., novices vs. experts or right- vs. left-handers. Past results indicate, among other things, that patterns of differential lateral cerebral specialization contribute to aesthetic preferences. Memory for aesthetically-important qualities is also under examination at the present time.

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