Commentary: Aesthetic Pleasure versus Aesthetic Interest: The Two Routes to Aesthetic Liking

Frontiers in Psychology

Gianluca Consoli¹ 

关键词: pleasure;    interest;    aesthetic liking;    processing style;    elaboration;   

DOI  :  10.3389/fpsyg.2017.01197

学科分类：心理学（综合）

来源: Frontiers

【 摘 要 】

In this commentary, I draw attention to two limitations of Graf and Landwehr (2017). The article addresses one of the main questions investigated by current research on aesthetic preferences in art and product design literature: the relationship between pleasure and interest with respect to aesthetic liking (Muth and Carbon, 2016). In line with recent research (Consoli, 2016), the article stresses the multidimensional nature of aesthetic liking. In particular, according to the core premise of the Pleasure-Interest Model (Graf and Landwehr, 2015), the basic thesis is that aesthetic liking has a dual character: it can be triggered by two distinct and separate processing components, precisely a pleasure-based response and an interest-based response. In line with this thesis two studies are proposed in order to investigate if the pleasure component of aesthetic liking is triggered by a gut-level fluency experience during automatic processing, while the interest component is driven by an experience of disfluency reduction in virtue of controlled processing.

【 授权许可】

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