Our Aesthetic Categories: Zany, Cute, Interesting

By Sianne Ngai. 2012

343 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Clinical Psychology, Visual Arts and Performing Arts

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/763872058b688dcc147630437879ba21e3eaa7c8

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In Clinical Psychology

1. Hiroshi Nittono

In Visual Arts and Performing Arts

1. Hiroshi Nittono

Citations in the corpus

• The two-layer model of ‘kawaii’: A behavioural science framework for understanding kawaii and cuteness (2016, background): “This concept attracts attention even outside Japan from various fields such as aesthetics (Ngai, 2012) and engineering (Cheok & Fernando, 2012).”