Why do some people like negative, or even disgusting and provocative artworks? Art
expertise, believed to influence the interplay among cognitive and emotional processing …

In the arts emotionally negative objects sometimes can be positively judged. Defining an
object as art possibly yields specific changes in how perceivers emotionally experience and …

Since the advent of the concept of empathy in the scientific literature, it has been
hypothesized, although not necessarily empirically verified, that empathic processes are …

Through applying an evolutionary approach, we examined affective consumer responses to
facial features in product designs. Previous studies have suggested that consumers might …

Studies on rhetorical features of language have reported both enhancing and adverse
effects on ease of processing. We hypothesized that two explanations may account for these …

Aesthetic experiences arise from the interaction among several cognitive and emotional
processes. By positing a number of distinctive processing stages, information-processing …

Esthetic experiences of artworks are influenced by contextualizing information such as titles.
However, how titles contribute to positive esthetic experiences is still an open issue …

For over a century we have attempted to understand human aesthetic experience using
scientific methods. A typical experiment could be described as reductive and quasi …

It is assumed that multimodal experiences of art (eg, listening to music while viewing a
painting) can improve aesthetic experience as the two modalities can complement each …

According to the processing fluency theory, higher ease of processing a stimulus leads to
higher feelings of fluency and more positive evaluations. However, it is unclear whether …