Munar and colleagues share that “Many studies have shown that humans and other species usually prefer curved to sharp-angled contours. . . . Our objective in this study was to test whether the effect of preference for curvature can be extended to the art domain in an ecologically valid setting. We conducted two studies using original artworks exhibited in a museum context. Stimuli consisted of a series of 48 paintings divided into 16 sets with three versions in each set:…

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