Knowledge, curiosity, and aesthetic chills

Schoeller, Félix

doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2015.01546

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“…Aesthetic chills seem to be a universal emotion (McCrae, 2007 ). The phenomenon invokes a wide variety of issues of interest to psychologists, such as the function of music for the cognitive system (Blood and Zatorre, 2001 ; Harrison and Loui, 2014 ; Perlovsky, 2015b ), the relation between cognition, social recognition and empathy (Keltner and Haidt, 2003 ), intelligence and collective intelligence (Sully, 1892 ; Algoe and Haidt, 2009 ), fear and expectations (Maruskin et al, 2012 ; Schoeller and Perlovsky, 2015 ), aesthetic emotions and natural curiosity (Perlovsky, 2001 ; Schoeller, 2015a ), aesthetic emotions and the drive for knowledge and meaning (Perlovsky, 2006 ; Chater and Loewenstein, 2015 ) and, at a more general level, the function of artistic, scientific, and religious behaviors in human societies (Schoeller, 2015b ). In order to understand, describe, and predict aesthetic emotions, one needs not only to assess what can elicit them but also what can suppress them.…”

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Aesthetic Chills: Knowledge-Acquisition, Meaning-Making, and Aesthetic Emotions

Schoeller

Perlovsky

2016

Front. Psychol.

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This article addresses the relation between aesthetic emotions, knowledge-acquisition, and meaning-making. We briefly review theoretical foundations and present experimental data related to aesthetic chills. These results suggest that aesthetic chills are inhibited by exposing the subject to an incoherent prime prior to the chill-eliciting stimulation and that a meaningful prime makes the aesthetic experience more pleasurable than a neutral or an incoherent one. Aesthetic chills induced by narrative structures seem to be related to the pinnacle of the story, to have a significant calming effect and subjects describe a strong empathy for the characters. We discuss the relation between meaning-making and aesthetic emotions at the psychological, physiological, narratological, and mathematical levels and propose a series of hypotheses to be tested in future research.

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Aesthetic Chills: Knowledge-Acquisition, Meaning-Making, and Aesthetic Emotions

Schoeller

Perlovsky

2016

Front. Psychol.

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“…checking the effectiveness of the development of the perception of schoolchildren musical works of different genres and forms in the conditions of traditional and innovative approaches to musical learning (questioning, interviewing, written surveys); generalization of pedagogical experience (Miendlarzewska, & Trost, 2014;Corrigall, Schellenberg, & Misura, 2013;Sheau-Yuh, 2010;Pesek, Strle, Kavčič, Marolt, 2017;Schoeller, 2015;Rabinowitch, Cross, & Burnard, 2013;Perlovsky, 2016;Gavrilova, 2014;Aviram, 2010).…”

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Schoolchildren’s Musical Perception Development On The Basis Of Interactive Music-Making Technology

Krasilnikov¹

2018

The European Proceedings of Social and Behavioural Sciences

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The article deals with the problem of development of musical perception of schoolchildren. Its success is associated with the introduction of students to productive artistic activity on the basis of innovative technology of interactive music-making. The essence of the technology is to live music in the process of its execution on the basis of complementary interaction with an external source of sound. Access to this technology can significantly simplify the operational component of musical activity and make this activity available to all students. Theoretical basis of research are the concepts of B. V. Asafiev (intonational nature of music), D. B. Kabalevsky (meaningful and heartfelt perceptionthe basis of introducing a child to music), L. S. Vygotsky and P. Y. Galperin (unity of consciousness and activity) D. B. Elkonin and V. V.Davydov (the theory of developmental education). The article reveals the educational potential of musical activities that support the audience perception (graphic and plastic modeling of instrumental music, effective analysis of musical and stage images, etc.). The theoretical results of the research are supported by the practice of introducing the new pedagogical technology, which made it possible to implement major educational projects: "Children on the Opera stage", "Music for all" with the participation of large groups of students together with professional Opera companies and orchestras in Moscow, Yoshkar-Ola, Perm, Samara and Yakutsk.

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“…Solso used brain imaging experiments for the first time to study the brain activity of ordinary subjects and professional portrait painters. The results show that professional painters perform more advanced creative thinking activities than ordinary subjects (Schoeller, 2015). Leder, Belke, Oeberst et al (2004) believed that subjects' aesthetic emotions towards art works were influenced by their professional knowledge.…”

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Evolution of Popular Aesthetic Psychology Under the Influence of Painting Art

2020

RACP

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As a unique type of painting, Chinese painting is an emerging object of the research on aesthetic psychology. Based on the theories of aesthetics and aesthetic psychology, this paper explores the evolution of popular aesthetic psychology under the influence of painting art from three dimensions: aesthetic feeling, pleasure and fondness. Three kinds of Chinese painting were selected as the research objects, and applied to a contrastive experiment on undergraduates not trained in painting and undergraduates and postgraduates who have been trained in painting. The experimental results show that the length of professional training has a positive influence on the sharpness of aesthetic feeling, the pleasure in painting appreciation, and the fondness of painting art; the three dimensions interact with each other, and the appreciation of painting art is a progressive process of aesthetic psychology. The research results help to promote the aesthetic pleasure through the creation of painting artworks.

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Knowledge, curiosity, and aesthetic chills

Cited by 60 publications

References 20 publications

Aesthetic Chills: Knowledge-Acquisition, Meaning-Making, and Aesthetic Emotions

Aesthetic Chills: Knowledge-Acquisition, Meaning-Making, and Aesthetic Emotions

Schoolchildren’s Musical Perception Development On The Basis Of Interactive Music-Making Technology

Evolution of Popular Aesthetic Psychology Under the Influence of Painting Art

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