Table 2 Linear mixed-effects analyses predicting beauty judgements from affective and cognitive judgements as well as cultural group.

From: On the universality of aesthetic preference and inference: a cross-cultural (Chinese–German) study

Fixed effects

Estimate (SE)

95% CI

Affective judgements

0.61*** (0.28)

[0.56, 0.66]

Cognitive judgements

0.12*** (0.03)

[0.07, 0.16]

Cultural group

−1.93 (1.52)

[−4.45, 0.60]

Cultural group x Affective judgements

−0.03 (0.04)

[−0.09, 0.04]

Cultural group x Cognitive judgements

0.12*** (0.03)

[0.07, 0.19]

Random effects

Variance (Std. Dev.)

95% CI

Participants

32.0 (5.66)

[4.63, 6.85]

Artworks

50.3 (7.10)

[5.54, 9.36]

  1. Number of observations = 1992, total IDs = 83, total Artworks = 24. CI confidence interval, SE standard error, Std. Dev. standard deviation; ***p < 0.001.