Stirring images: Fear, not happiness or arousal, makes art more sublime

Emotion

Volumn 12, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 1071-1074

  Eskine, Kendall J ^a   Kacinik, Natalie A ^b   Prinz, Jesse J ^b  

^a LOYOLA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

Abstract art; Aesthetics; Embodied cognition; Emotion; Fear

Indexed keywords

AROUSAL; ARTICLE; COGNITION; DECISION MAKING; EMOTION; FEAR; FEMALE; HAPPINESS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; PAINTING; PERSONAL EXPERIENCE;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; AROUSAL; ART; EMOTIONS; ESTHETICS; FEAR; FEMALE; HAPPINESS; HUMANS; JUDGMENT; MALE;

EID: 84874478859     PISSN: 15283542     EISSN: 19311516     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0027200     Document Type: Article

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