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Disentangling the social from the aesthetic: neuropsychology for urban design
Mavros, P., Olszewska-Guizzo, A., & Makowski, D.
Future Cities — City Futures: Emerging Urban Perspectives (TU Delft OPEN Books), 2023
A book chapter arguing that research on how people respond to urban space conflates two different things — a place's social content and its aesthetic properties — and setting out how neuropsychological methods can pull the two apart.
Keywords: Aesthetics · Urban Environment · Social Cognition
Cite
Mavros, P., Olszewska-Guizzo, A., & Makowski, D. (2023). Disentangling the social from the aesthetic: neuropsychology for urban design. Future Cities — City Futures: Emerging Urban Perspectives (TU Delft OPEN Books). https://doi.org/10.34641/mg.55
See also
- Attenuating subjective crowding through beauty: an online study on the interaction between environment aesthetics, typology and crowdedness — Mavros, P., Ngoi, Z. L., Kirk, S., Te, A., Grübel, J., Melgar, L. A., Guizzo, A. O., & Makowski, D. (2023)
- Beyond empathy: Cognitive capabilities increase or curb altruism in middle childhood — Rose, L., Kovarski, K., Caetta, F., Makowski, D., & Chokron, S. (2024)
- Self-reference and emotional reaction drive aesthetic judgment — Salgues, S., Jacquot, A., Makowski, D., Tahar, C., Baekeland, J., Arcangeli, M., Dokic, J., Piolino, P., & Sperduti, M. (2024)
