A Behavioral and Biological Analysis of Aesthetics: Implications for Research and Applications.
Seeking to identify the common and distinguishing attributes of effects one might call “aesthetic,” I examined hundreds of examples in music, visual arts, poetry, literature, humor, performance arts, architecture, science, mathematics, games, and other disciplines. I observed that all involve quasi-...
| Publicado en: | Psychological Record Vol. 68; no. 3; pp. 287 - 322 |
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Sep2018
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