Aesthetic Emotion

Aesthetic Emotion is a type of emotional response distinguished by its directedness toward the perceived formal qualities, expressive character, or artistic significance of an object or experience, rather than toward its practical consequences or personal utility.

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Citations

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Authors

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Publications per year

2017–2026

404

Variants

Aesthetic Emotions

Parents

Aesthetics

Children

Aesthetic AppraisalAesthetic ImmersionAesthetic InterestArt-related EmotionsBeauty ExperienceEmotion In FilmEmotion In LiteratureEmotion In Visual ArtEmotional Response To ArtEmpathy In Aesthetic Experience

Publications

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Processing Fluency and Aesthetic Pleasure: Is Beauty in the Perceiver's Processing Experience?

Rolf Reber, Norbert Schwarz, Piotr Winkielman · Personality and Social Psychology Review · 2004 · 2.8K citations

Humanities, Psychology, Social Psychology +17

Approaching awe, a moral, spiritual, and aesthetic emotion

Dacher Keltner, Jonathan Haidt · Cognition & Emotion · 2003 · 2K citations

Humanities, Philosophy, Psychology +16

A model of aesthetic appreciation and aesthetic judgments

Helmut Leder, Benno Belke, Andries Oeberst et al. · British Journal of Psychology · 2004 · 1.9K citations

Humanities, Fine Arts, Aesthetics +13

Individual differences in sensitivity to disgust: A scale sampling seven domains of disgust elicitors

Jonathan Haidt, Clark McCauley, Paul Rozin · Personality and Individual Differences · 1994 · 1.6K citations

Social Sciences, Psychology, Social Psychology +8

Effects of color on emotions.

Patricia Valdez · Journal of Experimental Psychology General · 1994 · 1K citations

Social Sciences, Behavioral Sciences, Psychology +10

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Authors

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HL
Helmut Leder
University of Vienna, Austria
31 publications · 4.4K citations
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PJ
Paul J. Silvia
University of North Carolina at Greensboro, United States
17 publications · 2.3K citations
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CC
Claus‐Christian Carbon
University of Bamberg, Germany
15 publications · 904 citations
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TJ
Thomas Jacobsen
Leipzig University, Germany
14 publications · 2.5K citations
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GC
Gerald C. Cupchik
University of Toronto, Canada
12 publications · 505 citations
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Institutions

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Venues

Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism
62 publications · 2.8K citations
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Psychology of Aesthetics Creativity and the Arts
44 publications · 3K citations
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Frontiers in Psychology
35 publications · 1.8K citations
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The British Journal of Aesthetics
44 publications · 1.5K citations
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Empirical Studies of the Arts
39 publications · 1.7K citations
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