Hakenberg, Kim (2024) Mind-wandering in Aesthetic Experiences. Bachelor thesis, Psychology.
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Abstract
Aesthetic Experiences are pleasurable phenomena of deep engagement with the sensory world, where one becomes highly captivated with an external object or event, often loosing awareness of self, time and environment in it. Mind-wandering means a detachment from the sensory world, where attention gets redirected onto the inside and moves across self-relevant thoughts and images. These phenomena are therefore highly polarized, suggestibly incompatible. This study primarily aimed to assess whether Mind-wandering occurs inside Aesthetic Experiences and to make a phenomenological account for it. By means of a diary study, participants self-reported upon their naturally occurring Aesthetic Experiences. Reports depicted Mind-wandering to be a common constituent of Aesthetic Experiences, to co-occur with decrements in absorption, and to display a distinct profile. Mind-wandering was reported as mostly positive, future-oriented, spontaneously generated and accompanied by higher meta-awareness. Participants also described their wandering thoughts and images to be connected to the themes of their Aesthetic Experience. These findings together depict Aesthetic Experiences to be constituted by brief periods of internal orientation onto the self, and Mind-wandering to not be fully stimulus-independent, suggesting both phenomena to be better modelled more expansively. The adaption of an allocentric-egocentric framing spectrum might also be helpful in understanding the relation between Aesthetic Experience and Mind-wandering.
| Item Type: | Thesis (Bachelor) |
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| Supervisor name: | Schino, G. |
| Degree programme: | Psychology |
| Differentiation route: | None [Bachelor Psychology] |
| Date Deposited: | 05 Mar 2024 12:55 |
| Last Modified: | 05 Mar 2024 12:55 |
| URI: | http://gmwpublic.studenttheses.ub.rug.nl/id/eprint/3193 |
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