Aesthetic appeal of dance actions depends on expressivity, liveness and audience characteristics

IF 2.8 1区心理学 Q1 PSYCHOLOGY, EXPERIMENTAL

Cognition Pub Date : 2025-05-23 DOI:10.1016/j.cognition.2025.106152

Julia F. Christensen , Eva-Madeleine Schmidt , Klaus Frieler , Rebecca A. Smith-Chase , Luisa Sancho-Escanero , Georgios Michalareas , Fredrik Ullén , Emily S. Cross

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Abstract

Across two pre-registered experiments, one live and one online, we investigated how audiences' aesthetic experience during a contemporary dance performance was shaped by audience members' individual traits, as well as by the characteristics of the performance. In an ecologically valid live performance setting, we replicated results from previous laboratory-based research concerning stimulus characteristics and aesthetic enjoyment. Specifically, using the motion capture system XSENS®, we found that 1) objectively measured movement kinematics (acceleration and velocity) differed significantly between expressive and non-expressive dance pieces; and 2) observers preferred expressive dance pieces over non-expressive pieces. Multivariate analyses of variance were used to evaluate the extent to which location (home, theatre), liveness (recorded, live), type of dancer (avatar, human) and intended expressivity (expressive, non-expressive) influenced audience responses to a contemporary dance performance. Liveness and type of dancer, along with the interindividual differences age, education, sex and personality, were found to reliably modulate audience members' responses. Exploratory Structural Equation Modelling showed that among different aesthetic enjoyment variables including liking, beauty, wanting and boredom, ‘interest’ was the strongest predictor of individual audience members' wish to see a dance performance again. Evidence obtained with a single dance performance can clearly not be generalized to all dance performances, but these results highlight, at the very least, the importance of assessing interindividual differences when researching aesthetic preferences for contemporary dance.

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舞蹈动作的审美情趣取决于表现力、活跃性和观众特征

通过两个预先注册的实验，一个是现场的，一个是在线的，我们调查了观众在当代舞蹈表演中的审美体验是如何被观众的个人特征以及表演的特征所塑造的。在一个生态有效的现场表演环境中，我们复制了先前基于实验室的关于刺激特征和审美享受的研究结果。具体来说，使用动作捕捉系统XSENS®，我们发现1)客观测量的运动运动学（加速度和速度）在表达性和非表达性舞蹈片段之间存在显著差异；2)与非表达的舞蹈作品相比，观察者更喜欢表达的舞蹈作品。使用多变量方差分析来评估地点（家庭，剧院），活动性（记录，现场），舞者类型（化身，真人）和预期的表现力（表现力，非表现力）对观众对现代舞表演的反应的影响程度。舞者的活力和类型，以及年龄、教育程度、性别和个性的个体差异，被发现能可靠地调节观众的反应。探索性结构方程模型显示，在不同的审美享受变量中，包括喜欢、美丽、想要和无聊，“兴趣”是个人观众希望再次观看舞蹈表演的最强预测因素。从单一舞蹈表演中获得的证据显然不能推广到所有舞蹈表演，但这些结果至少突出了在研究当代舞蹈审美偏好时评估个体间差异的重要性。

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Cognition PSYCHOLOGY, EXPERIMENTAL-

CiteScore

6.40

自引率

5.90%

发文量

283

期刊介绍： Cognition is an international journal that publishes theoretical and experimental papers on the study of the mind. It covers a wide variety of subjects concerning all the different aspects of cognition, ranging from biological and experimental studies to formal analysis. Contributions from the fields of psychology, neuroscience, linguistics, computer science, mathematics, ethology and philosophy are welcome in this journal provided that they have some bearing on the functioning of the mind. In addition, the journal serves as a forum for discussion of social and political aspects of cognitive science.