Theory of Mind Increases Aesthetic Appreciation in Visual Arts

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Art & Perception Pub Date : 2021-01-19 DOI:10.1163/22134913-BJA10011

M. Iosifyan

引用次数: 2

Abstract

Theory of mind is a cognitive ability that enables us to understand mental states of others, important in real-life communications as well as in aesthetic cognition. The present research investigated whether understanding intentions and emotions is related to aesthetic appreciation. Study 1 tested whether there is a link between aesthetic appreciation of cinematic films and attempts to understand the intentions and emotions of the artists and the film characters. It showed that a self-reported understanding of emotions and intentions is positively associated with aesthetic appreciation. Studies 2 and 4 investigated a causal relationship between the attempt to understand emotions and an aesthetic appreciation of artistic photos. Study 3 investigated an actual understanding of emotions and aesthetic appreciation of movie shots. The results show that when people evaluate the emotional state of the characters, they aesthetically appreciate artistic photos more, compared to when they evaluate non-mental characteristics of these photos (age of the characters, the colour of the photos). Moreover, better understanding of another’s emotions is related to greater aesthetic appreciation.

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心灵理论提高视觉艺术的审美能力

心理理论是一种使我们能够理解他人心理状态的认知能力，在现实生活中的交流和审美认知中都很重要。本研究调查了理解意图和情感是否与审美有关。研究1测试了电影的审美与理解艺术家和电影角色的意图和情感的尝试之间是否存在联系。研究表明，自我报告的对情绪和意图的理解与审美观呈正相关。研究2和4调查了试图理解情感和艺术照片审美之间的因果关系。研究3调查了对电影镜头情感和审美的实际理解。结果表明，当人们评估人物的情绪状态时，与评估这些照片的非心理特征（人物的年龄、照片的颜色）相比，他们更欣赏艺术照片。此外，更好地理解他人的情感与更大的审美能力有关。

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期刊介绍： The main objective of Art & Perception is to provide a high-quality platform to publish new artwork and research in the multi-disciplinary emerging bridge between art and perception. As such it aims to become the top venue to explore the links between the science of perception and the arts, and to bring together artists, researchers, scholars and students in a unified community that can cooperate, discuss and develop new scientific perspectives in this complex and intriguing new field. The purpose is not to minimize or erase the differences between the arts and sciences, which are grounded in venerable histories that are in many ways necessarily distinct. Rather, the ambition of the journal is to combine the differing methods and insights of artists and scientists in order to expand our knowledge of art and perceptual experience in a way that neither could do alone. Art & Perception will serve those across several areas of science studying the way works of art and design affect us perceptually, cognitively, or physiologically. The editors are also keen to receive submissions from practicing artists, and those in related fields of history and theory, which offer an artistic perspective on perception.