Looking Past Pleasure: Anger, Confusion, Disgust, Pride, Surprise, and Other Unusual Aesthetic Emotions

Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 48-51

  Silvia, Paul J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT GREENSBORO   (United States)

Author keywords

aesthetics; appraisal theories; emotion

Indexed keywords

EID: 71549155921     PISSN: 19313896     EISSN: 1931390X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0014632     Document Type: Article

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