Beauty as an Emotion: The Exhilarating Prospect of Mastering a Challenging World

By Thomas Armstrong, B. Detweiler-Bedell. 2008

173 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Cognitive Neuroscience, Literature and Literary Theory, Social Psychology

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In Cognitive Neuroscience

1. Roger E. Beaty
2. Paul J Silvia
3. Emily C. Nusbaum
4. Kirill Fayn
5. Rico Pohling
6. R. Diessner
7. Yoed N. Kenett
8. Miriam Faust

In Literature and Literary Theory

1. Edward Bonner
2. Paul J Silvia
3. R. Diessner
4. H. Friedman
5. Emily C. Nusbaum
6. Rico Pohling

In Social Psychology

1. Emily C. Nusbaum
2. Roger E. Beaty
3. Kirill Fayn
4. Rico Pohling
5. Edward Bonner
6. Paul J Silvia
7. R. Diessner
8. H. Friedman

Citations in the corpus

• On personality and piloerection: Individual differences in aesthetic chills and other unusual aesthetic experiences. (2011, background): “The first strand, based in the Berlyne (1971) tradition of experimental aesthetics, studies feelings of liking, preference, pleasure, and beauty ( Armstrong & Detweiler-Bedell, 2008; Leder, Belke, Oeberst, & Augustin, 2004).”
• A Conceptual Clarification of the Experience of Awe: An Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis (2011, background): “This cognitive tension that awe may create appears to involve a sense of threat to the self, caught between the potentials for self-expansiveness (Friedman, 1983 ) and self-annihilation, that can be seen as an important aspect of awe (Armstrong & Detweiler-Bedell, 2008 ).”
• Openness to experience and awe in response to nature and music: Personality and profound aesthetic experiences. (2015, background): “None of these families, however, beauty (Armstrong & Detweiler-Bedell, 2008), and the sublime (Scruton, 2009), although they could probably be viewed as members of a family of knowledge emotions.”
• Confusion and interest: The role of knowledge emotions in aesthetic experience. (2010, background): “Other unusual states are complicated human experiences that are hard to pin down, such as aesthetic chills (McCrae, 2007), the experience of beauty (Armstrong & Detweiler-Bedell, 2008), and feelings of awe, thrills, and being moved (Konecni, 2005).”
• Moral Elevation and Moral Beauty: A Review of the Empirical Literature (2016, background): “An act may be cognitively experienced as moral goodness but it is only experienced as an act of moral beauty if the observer feels moved and uplifted (Diessner et al., 2008; Güsewell & Ruch, 2012; for a review and framework of beauty as an emotion, see Armstrong & Detweiler-Bedell, 2008).”