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PSY 365- Lecture 6

Aesthetic Emotions to Art

TermDefinition
Perceptual -sometimes small effects -based on low-level aspect of art -balance, perspective, color, typicality
Conceptual arising from the subject matter, your reactions, etc.
Aesthetic Emotions emotional responses to art -consciously experienced -fairly intense -like emotions to anything else -more complicated than simple positive feelings
What Makes People Emotional? Nativist Fallacy emotions caused by things in the world -fear comes from scary things -happiness comes from cheery, good things
Problems with Nativist things that were shocking in the past aren't shocking now -reactions different a lot
Two Factor (Circomplex) Theory emotions have both a cognitive component (appraisal) and a psychological component (arousal) -Cognitive= having to do with thoughts -Psychological= having to do with the body
What's Arousal? the "peripheral" nervous system heavily involved (spine and nerves) -events in world affect our arousal -being startled=much higher arousal -talking to people, higher arousal
Emotion= Cognition + Arousal: Arousal determines intensity of the emotion -amusement vs. joy= more intense arousal -anger vs. attraction= both high arousal, but the interpretation changes
Emotion= Cognition + Arousal: Cognition determines what emotion we are feeling -cognition determines the emotion -early theories like circumplex provided one dimension for the cognitive part- its good or bad -newer theories assume many more cognitive dimensions to emotion-appraisals
What are Appraisals? an evaluation of an event -these are typically tactic, implicit, and automatic
Interest as an emotion 2 appraisals 1. Novelty-complexity 2. Comprehensibility -more interesting when you feel you can understand it -can also co-occur with negative emotions
Enjoyment/Happiness: Positive Emotion appraisals of goal congruence: something furthers your goals, needs, and values -enjoyable art is typical, familiar
Results from Turner and Siliva -interesting pictures were new and complex and comprehensible -enjoyable pictures were familiar and simple -disturbing pictures were interesting, but not enjoyable
Studies of Negative Aesthetic Emotions aesthetic emotions come from appraisals of art-that is, what art means in relation to our goals and values -Herms dislike Mapplethrope (male bondage imagery)
Anger and Disgust (Silvia and Brown, 2007) Anger: trespass, goal incongruent, intentional Disgust: contamination, goal incongruent, yucky/unpleasant
Anger came from appraising a picture as contrary to one's values, seemed intentionally offensive
Disgust came from appraising a picture as contrary to one's values; unpleasant/ yucky
Awe wonder, amazement, fascination, being moved, touched
Music awe and picture awe are correlated, both were predicted by openness to experience, but even after controlling for that, awe remained correlated
Musical Chills are often induced by suddenly rising volume, adding an instrument or voice, or expanding frequency range -violations of musical expectations
Kazumi and Makoto (2014): People with high physiological arousal get more chills
Colver and El-Arayli (2016): high openness to experience predicts chills and also attentive listening to music
Nusbaum and Silvia (2011): openness causes people to play instruments more, value music, and spend more time listening to music, and that fully explains its effect on chills
Cognitive Reappraisal a mental process by which initial responses to negative experiences are reevaluated to reduce their emotional impact
Anic and Dahlenberg (2025): showed anger-including vignettes and found people high on creativity and openness to experience got less mad -they thought of alternative ways to think about the situation
Openness and Emotional Appraisals: High like novelty, imagination, being different
Openness and Emotional Appraisals: Low like familiar, value practical, more traditional
Values associated with tradition and convention will always be trampled by artists who try to portray controversial themes
Reappraisal is associated with openness
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