Art as emotional exploration
- PMID: 29342798
- DOI: 10.1017/S0140525X17001807
Art as emotional exploration
Abstract
The Roman poet Horace said poetry gives pleasure and instructs. A more informative theory is that poetry and art, in general, are less about pleasure than about exploration of emotions. Literary authors concentrate on negative emotions, seemingly to try and understand them. In two studies, reading literary art enabled the transformation of selfhood, not by being instructed but by people changing in their own ways.
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Negative emotions in art reception: Refining theoretical assumptions and adding variables to the Distancing-Embracing model.Behav Brain Sci. 2017 Jan;40:e380. doi: 10.1017/S0140525X17001947. Behav Brain Sci. 2017. PMID: 29342806
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The Distancing-Embracing model of the enjoyment of negative emotions in art reception.Behav Brain Sci. 2017 Jan;40:e347. doi: 10.1017/S0140525X17000309. Epub 2017 Feb 20. Behav Brain Sci. 2017. PMID: 28215214
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