Aesthetic and emotional effects of meter and rhyme in poetry

Frontiers in Psychology

Volumn 4, Issue JAN, 2013, Pages

  Obermeier, Christian ^a   Menninghaus, Winfried ^b   Koppenfels, Martin von ^c   Raettig, Tim ^a   Schmidt Kassow, Maren ^d   Otterbein, Sascha ^d   Kotz, Sonja A ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN COGNITIVE AND BRAIN SCIENCES   (Germany)

^b FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^d GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Aesthetics; Cognitive fluency; Emotion; Meter; Poetry; Rhyme

Indexed keywords

EID: 84874677715     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16641078     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2013.00010     Document Type: Article

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