Engagement with beauty: Appreciating natural, artistic, and moral beauty

Journal of Psychology: Interdisciplinary and Applied

Volumn 142, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 303-332

  Diessner, Rhett ^a,c   Solom, Rebecca C ^a   Frost, Nellie K ^a   Parsons, Lucas ^b   Davidson, John ^b  

^a Lewis Clark State College

^b UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

^c LEWIS CLARK STATE COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Appreciation; Artistic beauty; Engagement; Moral beauty; Natural beauty

Indexed keywords

EID: 45749135548     PISSN: 00223980     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3200/JRLP.142.3.303-332     Document Type: Article

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