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  • Aesthetics
  • Philosophy

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  • Philosophers and psychologists have proposed various characteristics of beauty experiences.
  • Previous theories often emphasize specific elements like surprise or intellectual understanding.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To empirically test philosophical and psychological claims about the subjective experience of beauty.
  • To identify the core dimensions characterizing intense beauty experiences across different modalities and cultures.

Main Methods:

  • Conducted ten experiments with 851 participants across the US, UK, and India.
  • Investigated feelings reported during visual art, music, and personal memory-based beauty experiences.

Main Results:

  • Top-rated beauty experiences consistently showed six key dimensions: intense pleasure, universality, continuation, exceeding expectation, harmony in variety, and meaningfulness.
  • Surprise, desire to understand, and mind wandering were uncorrelated with reported beauty.
  • Remembered beautiful experiences were often social and active, rarely involving art or explicit mention of beauty.

Conclusions:

  • The study supports philosophical and psychological theories emphasizing pleasure in beauty.
  • Findings challenge theories that prioritize information seeking or surprise in aesthetic experiences.
  • Real-world beauty experiences are frequently social and active, diverging from traditional aesthetic focus on solitary art contemplation.