There is growing evidence that appreciation for and engagement with art, nature, and
beauty are associated with positive mental and physical health outcomes, yet the emotional …

Profound aesthetic experiences associated with awe—often described as a sense of
wonder, amazement, fascination, or being moved and touched—have received less …

Psychological research on awe has largely focused on its positive dimensions, both in terms
of the experiential state of awe and individual trait-based predispositions to awe experience …

There is a stable relationship between the Openness/Intellect domain of personality and
aesthetic engagement. However, neither of these are simple constructs and while the …

Aesthetic evaluations are often couched in terms of emotional impact; for example, an
artwork may be deemed fascinating, moving, or surprising. Such emotional responses have …

Prior research suggests that individual differences in aesthetic engagement—the propensity
to be moved by art, nature, and beauty and a facet of the personality factor Openness to …

The ability to distinguish between emotions is considered indicative of well-being, but does
emotion differentiation (ED) in an aesthetic context also reflect deeper and more …

Aesthetic chills are transient emotional responses to music or other experiences of beauty.
Item 188 of the Revised NEO Personality Inventory (NEO-PI-R) asks respondents if they …

Psychological aesthetics, for the most part, is concerned with people's feelings of pleasure in
response to art. The study of mild positive feelings will always be important to psychological …

This is the first comprehensive theoretical article on aesthetic emotions. Following Kant's
definition, we propose that it is the first and foremost characteristic of aesthetic emotions to …