The Aesthetic Emotion Lexicon: A Literature Review of Emotion Words Used by Researchers to Describe Aesthetic Experiences

Schubert, Emery

doi:10.1177/02762374221143728

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“…Whilst the distinction between aesthetic and utilitarian emotions is intuitive, it is hard to objectively separate them. Schubert (2024) found three aesthetic emotions to be reliably included in previous investigations without counterexamples, namely awe, (being) moved, and wonder. Even so these emotions may occur in non-aesthetic circumstances (Keltner & Haidt, 2003;Silvia, 2008).…”

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“…Representatives of ESCOM gave support and added value through their presence and keynotes, thus promoting the event. This included John Sloboda, Renee Timmers (then ESCOM president), Jane Ginsborg, and Richard Parncutt, at the first conference, and at the second conference Andrea Schiavio ( ESCOM president 2021-2024, David Dolan, Alexandra Lamont, and Heiner Gembris. The vivid response and rising interest in the Western Balkans region for the psychology of music and PAM-IE conferences resulted in the establishment of the Regional Network Psychology and Music ( RNPaM, n.d.) foundation in 2020, which now gathers colleagues and students from the countries of former Yugoslavia, with a broad interdisciplinary background.…”

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Psychological Perspectives on Musical Experiences and Skills

2024

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Psychology of Music is a flourishing area of research in the Western Balkans. However, much of its findings and insights have remained relatively unknown outside the region. Psychological Perspectives on Musical Experiences and Skills features recent research from the Western Balkans, foregrounding its specific topics, methods, and influences, and bringing it into productive conversation with complementary research from Western Europe and further afield. The essays in this collection investigate the psychology of listening and performance and their relevance to music practice. Employing a range of research methodologies, they address divergent themes, from a cross-cultural understanding of aesthetic experiences and innovations to attract new audiences, to developmental perspectives on musical growth and the challenges of mastering performance skills. Authors reflect independently and collaboratively on how these psychological processes are shaped by the different traditions and geopolitical conditions inside and outside the Western Balkans. The result is a volume that emphasizes how musical experiences and practices happen not in isolation but in socio-cultural environments that contribute to their definition. This work will appeal to musicians, music educators, students, researchers, and psychologists with an interest in the psychology of music and exemplify ways forward in decolonizing academia.

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Psychological Perspectives on Musical Experiences and Skills

2024

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“…Thereafter, they present a detailed description of three different positive aesthetic emotions within each family, which includes information on their main somatic profiles, bodily reactions, appraisals, and the most relevant triggers attributed to each aesthetic emotion by various authors. Based on Fingerhut and Prinz (2020) and Díaz-Vera (2021), Table 1 presents some of the most relevant aspects of 2 In a recent study on the aesthetic emotion lexicon, Schubert (2023) identifies 131 terms for aesthetic emotions used in scholarly sources. However, as the author admits, these results "are not in accordance with a more general population's usage of this poorly defined concept" (pp.…”

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Aesthetic emotional reactions and their verbal expression in a corpus of Japanese travellers’ online reviews

Díaz-Vera

2023

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Using Conceptual Metaphor Theory, I propose a study of aesthetic emotional expressions in Japanese. With this aim, I have created a medium-sized corpus (c100,000 running words) of travellers’ reviews in Japanese published on TripAdvisor between 2012 and 2022. The corpus consists of 1,100 reviews, grouped into three subsections, corresponding to three of the most visited landmarks in Japan (namely, Mount Fuji, Fushimi Inari-Taisha Shrine, and the Hiroshima Atomic Bomb Dome). The reviews chosen for this research include at least one reference, either literal or figurative, to the users’ aesthetic evaluation of their visit. My list of aesthetic emotions consists of four large categories: emotions of pleasure (e.g., attraction, fluency), emotions of contemplation (e.g., interest, intrigue), emotions of amazement (e.g., awe, wonder), and emotions of respect (e.g., admiration, adoration). For each aesthetic emotion, I have identified a series of source domains, which I analyse in detail in my discussion. As my data shows, many of our aesthetic expressions are rooted in the psychological and behavioural changes triggered by these emotions and, therefore, should be considered embodied. More importantly, through the analysis of the conceptual mappings involved in these linguistic expressions, it can be affirmed that aesthetic reactions are sensitive to cultural influences and, thus, they are not necessarily universal.

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“…To date, the academic community has not reached a consensus on the specific categories of aesthetic emotions. However, a recent study has suggested that awe, being moved, and wonder are three typical and uncontroversial aesthetic emotions [ 15 ]. Arts engagement is a crucial pathway for inducing aesthetic emotions.…”

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Psychological Benefits of Arts Participation for Emerging Adulthood: A Pathway to Flourishing

Fan,

Ni,

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Behavioral Sciences

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This study examined 430 Chinese college students’ engagement in arts activities and the psychological benefits derived from such activities. The research differentiated between various types of arts participation and ways of involvement and examined four potential positive psychological outcomes. The findings revealed correlations between (1) creative participation in the performing arts, ‘flow’, and aesthetic emotions; (2) consumptive participation in the visual arts and aesthetic emotions; and (3) creative participation in the literary arts and ego identity. Holistic arts participation demonstrated a significantly positive relationship with flourishing. A path analysis showed that flow experience and aesthetic emotions served as mediators in the mechanism through which holistic arts participation affected flourishing, with a chained mediation effect from flow experience to ego identity. This study confirms that arts participation is an effective pathway for individual flourishing and that more diverse and profound engagement in the arts can lead to sustained and widespread happiness.

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The Aesthetic Emotion Lexicon: A Literature Review of Emotion Words Used by Researchers to Describe Aesthetic Experiences

Cited by 6 publications

References 131 publications

Psychological Perspectives on Musical Experiences and Skills

Psychological Perspectives on Musical Experiences and Skills

Aesthetic emotional reactions and their verbal expression in a corpus of Japanese travellers’ online reviews

Psychological Benefits of Arts Participation for Emerging Adulthood: A Pathway to Flourishing

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