Publikation: Aesthetic Response and Aesthetic Inference : The Influence of Affective and Cognitive Appraisal on the Judgment of Beauty
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The evaluation of beauty is a crucial aspect of human judgment. However, despite its significance in everyday life, there are still unresolved questions regarding the underlying appraisal processes that lead to a beauty judgment. On one hand, affective appraisal accompanies all stages of an aesthetic experience and has thus been considered as the primary influence of a beauty judgment by numerous scholars and researchers throughout the history of aesthetics. On the other hand, cognitive appraisal processes can override initial affective evaluations and therefore, have been considered to play the ultimate role in the judgment of beauty. Importantly, although affective and cognitive appraisal are two distinct factors in beauty judgment, they may be closely connected during the aesthetic experience. Therefore, the fundamental question remains: What evaluative nature accompanies the aesthetic experience that consistently and universally results in a judgment of beauty? This dissertation explores the aesthetic response of non-experts to visual artworks, specifically examining the impact of affective and cognitive appraisal on their final judgment of beauty. Moreover, this research investigates the ability to accurately infer the aesthetic responses of others, which can be seen as a measure for the universal understanding or agreement of beauty. Three consecutive studies were conducted to assess the affective, cognitive, and beauty judgments of laypeople regarding a wide range of visual artworks. To ensure the generalizability of the findings, two studies explored the impact of gender and culture on these judgements. All three studies primarily addressed the distinct influences of affective and cognitive appraisal processes on beauty judgments. Research Paper 1 also investigated the feasibility of aesthetic inference, in general, as well as the underlying appraisal processes of aesthetic inference. Research Paper 2 focused on the relationship between aesthetic response, empathy, and Theory of Mind capacities that has been emphasized in the literature on empirical aesthetics, while considering the factor gender. Finally, Research Paper 3 examined the influence of culture on aesthetic response and explored both intra- and inter-cultural aesthetic inference abilities. Overall, the results from these three studies highlight the influence of affective appraisal on the judgment of beauty, while the cognitive appraisal was found to be less influential and more specific to certain groups. Therefore, the results emphasize the need to consider group-specific effects when studying the appraisal processes related to beauty judgments. The results further support the concept of aesthetic inference as a universal human ability. Importantly, beauty inference is primarily related to affective inference. Taken together, this dissertation contributes to the understanding of debates about the formation of beauty judgments and also updates recent theories of empirical aesthetics. Furthermore, it enhances theories of general human inference abilities, thereby also making contributions to the fields of cognitive psychology and social cognition.
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MILLER, Chantal A., 2024. Aesthetic Response and Aesthetic Inference : The Influence of Affective and Cognitive Appraisal on the Judgment of Beauty [Dissertation]. Konstanz: Universität KonstanzBibTex
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