Aesthetic emotions, what are their cognitive functions?

Aesthetic emotions, what are their cognitive functions?

DIFFICULTIES OF DEFINING “AESTHETIC” A huge number of publications are devoted to aesthetic emotions; Google Scholar gives 319,000 references. Nevertheless, finding a definition of what is aesthetic is not easy. Most authors use no definitions. Wikipedia (2013) gives a circular definition: “aesthetic emotions. . . are felt during aesthetic activity.” This is similar to the “institutional theory...

On the Cognitive Functioning of Aesthetic Emotions

This article seeks to show that we cannot accept an oppositlon between aesthetics and logtc on the basis of the distinctton between aesthetic emotion and cognitton. This false distinction is that is specific to a linguistic founded on another ill-founded one between prlvate states of mtnd and munity. In this sense, the inner ~ ~ b l i c languages, ~ ~ h ~ i ~ works character of my pains or emoI...

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What Are Shared Emotions (for)?

In recent years, a burgeoning literature has been developing around the topic of shared emotions, addressing such questions as whether there is any such thing as a shared emotion, and what functions shared emotions may have. A quick survey of that literature reveals that different researchers have proposed to conceptualize shared emotions in different ways—and that at least some participants to...

What Good Are Positive Emotions?

This article opens by noting that positive emotions do not fit existing models of emotions. Consequently, a new model is advanced to describe the form and function of a subset of positive emotions, including joy, interest, contentment, and love. This new model posits that these positive emotions serve to broaden an individual's momentary thought-action repertoire, which in turn has the effect o...