How to account for the power that art holds over us? Why do artworks touch us deeply,
consoling, transforming or invigorating us in the process? In this paper, we argue that an …

The current global pandemic situation due to the Covid-19 has implied several
consequences at all psychological levels. One of the main differences with respect to the pre …

Neuroaesthetics is a rapidly developing interdisciplinary field of research that aims to
understand the neural substrates of aesthetic experience: While understanding aesthetic …

At the beginning of psychology, claimed that beauty is immediate pleasure, and that an
object's pleasure determines its value. In our earlier work, we found that intense pleasure …

People invest precious time and resources on experiences such as watching movies or
listening to music. Yet, we still have a poor understanding of how such sensed experiences …

The experience often described as feeling moved, understood chiefly as a social-relational
emotion with social bonding functions, has gained significant research interest in recent …

An experiment was conducted to compare museum visitors' gaze patterns using mobile eye-
trackers, whilst they were engaging with a physical and a virtual reality (VR) installation of …

The pain-and stress-reducing effects of music are well-known, but the effects of visual art,
and the combination of these two, are much less investigated. We aim to (1) investigate the …

When studying architectural experience in the lab, it is of paramount importance to use a
proxy as close to real-world experience as possible. Whilst still images visually describe real …

In recent years, psychological models of perception have undergone reevaluation due to a
broadening of focus toward understanding not only how observers perceive stimuli but also …