Individual Ratings of Vividness Predict Aesthetic Appeal in Poetry

被引：44
作者：
Belfi, Amy M. [1 ]
Vessel, Edward A. [2 ]
Starr, G. Gabrielle [3 ,4 ]
机构：
[1] NYU, Dept Psychol, New York, NY 10003 USA
[2] Max Planck Inst Empir Aesthet, Dept Neurosci, Frankfurt, Germany
[3] NYU, Dept English, New York, NY 10003 USA
[4] Pomona Coll, Dept English, Claremont, CA 91711 USA
来源：
PSYCHOLOGY OF AESTHETICS CREATIVITY AND THE ARTS | 2018年 / 12卷 / 03期
关键词：
aesthetics; imagery; emotion; poetry; MENTAL-IMAGERY; MUSIC; APPRECIATION; RESPONSES; JUDGMENTS; PLEASURE; FLUENCY; MODEL; ART;
D O I：
10.1037/aca0000153
中图分类号：
C [社会科学总论];
学科分类号：
03 ; 0303 ;
摘要：
Poems are highly complex aesthetic objects that vary across both objective stimulus features and subjectively experienced qualities. This study sought to determine which of a subset of subjective qualities-vividness of imagery experienced in reading, valence, and arousal of perceived emotion in a poem's content most-determine aesthetic appeal for two highly regularized genres: haiku and sonnet, Participants recruited online using Amazon's Mechanical Turk read and rated haiku and sonnets on four characteristics: valence, arousal, vividness, and aesthetic appeal. Our results indicate that individuals vary greatly in experiencing aesthetic pleasure, with high disagreement about which poems they found most appealing. However, across participants, vividness of imagery was the strongest contributor to aesthetic pleasure, followed by valence and arousal. While individual poems vary greatly in their appeal to individual readers, individuals generally agree about the perceived emotional valence of poems in both genres. "This study also characterized a stimulus set of haiku suitable for further experimentation in aesthetics or emotion research.
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页码：341 / 350
页数：10
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