Response: Commentary: Aesthetic Pleasure versus Aesthetic Interest: The Two Routes to Aesthetic Liking

Commentary: Aesthetic Pleasure versus Aesthetic Interest: The Two Routes to Aesthetic Liking

Aesthetic Pleasure versus Aesthetic Interest: The Two Routes to Aesthetic Liking

Although existing research has established that aesthetic pleasure and aesthetic interest are two distinct positive aesthetic responses, empirical research on aesthetic preferences usually considers only aesthetic liking to capture participants' aesthetic response. This causes some fundamental contradictions in the literature; some studies find a positive relationship between easy-to-process st...

Aesthetic Emotions and Aesthetic People: Openness Predicts Sensitivity to Novelty in the Experiences of Interest and Pleasure

There is a stable relationship between the Openness/Intellect domain of personality and aesthetic engagement. However, neither of these are simple constructs and while the relationship exists, process based evidence explaining the relationship is still lacking. This research sought to clarify the relationship by evaluating the influence of the Openness and Intellect aspects on several different...

Components of aesthetic experience: aesthetic fascination, aesthetic appraisal, and aesthetic emotion

In this paper aesthetic experience is defined as an experience qualitatively different from everyday experience and similar to other exceptional states of mind. Three crucial characteristics of aesthetic experience are discussed: fascination with an aesthetic object (high arousal and attention), appraisal of the symbolic reality of an object (high cognitive engagement), and a strong feeling of ...

Creativity and aesthetic evaluation. Two proposals to improve the model of aesthetic dis/fluency

In recent years an innovative frame concerning the link between perception and appreciation of art has been proposed. This frame has been clearly articulated by Van de Cruys and Wagerman (2011). An increasing experimental evidence significantly corroborates it. Here we can refer to the data collected by Muth et al. (2012), Muth and Carbon (2013) and Carbon and Hesslinger (2014). According to Va...