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| Title |
Affinity for Poetry and Aesthetic Appreciation of Joyful and Sad Poems
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|---|---|
| Published in |
Frontiers in Psychology, January 2017
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| DOI | 10.3389/fpsyg.2016.02051 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Maria Kraxenberger, Winfried Menninghaus |
| Abstract |
Artworks with sad and affectively negative content have repeatedly been reported to elicit positive aesthetic appreciation. This topic has received much attention both in the history of poetics and aesthetics as well as in recent studies on sad films and sad music. However, poetry and aesthetic evaluations of joyful and sad poetry have received only little attention in empirical studies to date. We collected beauty and liking ratings for 24 sad and 24 joyful poems from 128 participants. Following previous studies, we computed an integrated measure for overall aesthetic appreciation based on the beauty and liking ratings to test for differences in appreciation between joyful and sad poems. Further, we tested whether readers' judgments are related to their affinity for poetry. Results show that sad poems are rated significantly higher for aesthetic appreciation than joyful poems, and that aesthetic appreciation is influenced by the participants' affinity for poetry. |
X Demographics
The data shown below were collected from the profiles of 9 X users who shared this research output. Click here to find out more about how the information was compiled.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United Kingdom | 2 | 22% |
| United States | 2 | 22% |
| Comoros | 1 | 11% |
| Spain | 1 | 11% |
| Unknown | 3 | 33% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 6 | 67% |
| Scientists | 3 | 33% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 39 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Unknown | 39 | 100% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Researcher | 5 | 13% |
| Student > Master | 4 | 10% |
| Student > Doctoral Student | 3 | 8% |
| Professor | 3 | 8% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 3 | 8% |
| Other | 9 | 23% |
| Unknown | 12 | 31% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Psychology | 13 | 33% |
| Neuroscience | 6 | 15% |
| Arts and Humanities | 3 | 8% |
| Social Sciences | 2 | 5% |
| Linguistics | 1 | 3% |
| Other | 3 | 8% |
| Unknown | 11 | 28% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 6. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 09 January 2024.
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#6,302,877
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Outputs from Frontiers in Psychology
#8,971
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#106,090
of 424,646 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Frontiers in Psychology
#163
of 411 outputs
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