Ortmann, Helene Charlotte (2023) The Impact of Emotional Responses on Aesthetic Judgments of Artworks in Children and Teenagers: A pilot study. Bachelor thesis, Psychology.
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Abstract
The field of neuroaesthetics seeks to understand how aesthetic judgment is formed and what influences it. The present study aimed to investigate how emotional responses to artworks influence its aesthetic judgment in children and teenagers by using a mixed-method approach. It was hypothesized that a) the intensity of the emotions and b) the valence of the emotions felt during art appreciation would influence the final aesthetic judgment of the artwork. An experiment was conducted with dyads of children ages 6-17 (N=12) who completed questionnaires and discussed the artworks they had brought that were meaningful to them. The results were not significant for both hypotheses. Participants experienced negative emotions and still made positive aesthetic judgments, and the intensity of the emotion had no significant effect on the judgment. We conclude that the valence of the emotion felt during art experience does not influence the valence of the aesthetic judgment. The intensity of the emotion is not an indicator of the valence of the aesthetic judgment. Keywords: Aesthetic Judgment, Art, Emotional Response, Children
| Item Type: | Thesis (Bachelor) |
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| Supervisor name: | Schino, G. |
| Degree programme: | Psychology |
| Differentiation route: | None [Bachelor Psychology] |
| Date Deposited: | 24 Jul 2023 11:54 |
| Last Modified: | 24 Jul 2023 11:54 |
| URI: | http://gmwpublic.studenttheses.ub.rug.nl/id/eprint/2575 |
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