Context in perceptions of the aesthetics of web pages over time 2 Word count of abstract: 223 Abstract An important aspect of the empirical study of user experience is the process by which users form aesthetic and other judgements of interactive products. The current study extends previous research by presenting test users with a context (mode of use) in which to make their judgements, using se...

Russell Epstein’s essay (2004) is original, ambitious, and usefully speculative; he brings neurocognitive psychology together with the usually remote disciplines of aesthetics and literature. The aestheticians will probably welcome the help, because ‘‘aesthetics’’ covers a very broad domain, and for millennia there has been no consensus on any aspect of it, not even on the most basic points. Th...

Aim: Self-esteem is one’s attitude towards oneself. It is one of the most important psychological aspects of rhinoplasty, a common aesthetic operation. Prior studies have indicated an improvement in patients’ self-esteem after this operation. The aim of current study was to preoperatively compare self-esteem in patients seeking aesthetic rhinoplasty with that of functional rhinoplasty patients....

a bstr act Mark Johnson’s work The Meaning of the Body presents John Dewey’s pragmatism and pragmatist aesthetics as the forerunners of the anti­ Cartesian embodied enactive approach to human experience and meaning. He rejects the Kantian noncognitive character of aesthetics and emphasizes that aesthetics is the study of the human capacity to experience the bodily conditions of meaning constitu...

Reflection on the nonmusical sounds that occur around us suggests a puzzle for aesthetic theory. Many of these sounds-particularly those associated with nature-are quite beautiful if we listen to them attentively. Many are interesting, singly or (especially) in combination. (Certainly there is as much richness and complexity in the sounds around us as occurs in music.) Some move us emotionally....

Exploitation of mega event, such as solar eclipse event, in tourism is not a new phenomenon. Many places have been exploited to attract tourists to look at natural events. By using 105 data with random sampling method, this study aims to prove that the total solar eclipse as a mega tourism event is able to provide a positive value to the value of consumer travel. The results show that there are...