There is a stable
relationship between the Openness/Intellect domain of personality and aesthetic
engagement. However, neither of these are simple constructs and while the
relationship exists, process based evidence explaining the relationship is
still lacking. This research sought to clarify the relationship by evaluating
the influence of the Openness and Intellect aspects on several different
aesthetic emotions. Two studies looked at the between- and within-person
differences in arousal and the emotions of interest, pleasure and confusion in
response to visual art.
The results suggest that Openness, as opposed to
Intellect, was predictive of greater arousal, interest and pleasure, while both
aspects explained less confusion. Differences in Openness were associated with
within-person emotion appraisal contingencies, particularly greater
novelty-interest and novelty-pleasure relationships. Those higher in Openness
were particularly influenced by novelty in artworks.
For pleasure this
relationship suggested a different qualitative structure of appraisals. The
appraisal of novelty is part of the experience of pleasure for those high in
Openness, but not those low in Openness. This research supports the utility of
studying Openness and Intellect as separate aspects of the broad domain and clarifies
the relationship between Openness and aesthetic states in terms of
within-person appraisal processes.
Below: A depiction of the multilevel models
Full article at: http://goo.gl/zRdkM7
By: Kirill Fayn,1,* Carolyn MacCann,1 Niko Tiliopoulos,1 and Paul J. Silvia2
1School of Psychology, University of
Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia
2Department of Psychology, University of
North Carolina at Greensboro, Greensboro, NC, USA
Edited by: Nadin Beckmann, Durham University, UK
Reviewed by: Cornelia Wrzus, Johannes Gutenberg
University of Mainz, Germany; Matthias Ziegler, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin,
Germany
*Correspondence: Kirill Fayn, ua.ude.yendys.inu@nyafk
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