Looking past pleasure: Anger, confusion, disgust, pride, surprise, and other unusual aesthetic emotions.

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Confusion and interest: The role of knowledge emotions in aesthetic experience. (2010, background): “The present research is part of my ongoing interest in unusual aesthetic states (Silvia, 2009).”
Dynamics of affective states during complex learning (2012, background): “…‘basic’ emotion (e.g., anger, disgust, sadness, fear) (Ekman, 1992), there is some debate about classifying confusion as either an emotion (Keltner & Shiota, 2003; Rozin & Cohen, 2003; Silvia, 2009), an epistemic affective state (Pekrun, 2010), or a mere cognitive state (Clore & Huntsinger, 2007).”
On personality and piloerection: Individual differences in aesthetic chills and other unusual aesthetic experiences. (2011, background): “The second strand, based in emotion psychology, studies discrete emotional states, such as enjoyment, interest, anger, and disgust ( Silvia, 2005, Silvia, 2009).”
Openness to experience and awe in response to nature and music: Personality and profound aesthetic experiences. (2015, background): “…with interest, surprise, and confusion—that share the core feature of involving appraisals of one’s own knowledge, such as whether something violates one’s mental model of the world and whether one has the ability to understand what is happening (Keltner & Shiota, 2003; Silvia, 2009, 2010).”