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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.

Scientific Reports, 2024

What makes something beautiful to a particular person. This study separates two candidate drivers of aesthetic judgment — how self-relevant the work feels, and how strong an emotional reaction it produces — and reports both of them contributing.

• DOI: 10.1038/s41598-024-68331-9

Keywords: Aesthetics · Self-Reference

Cite

Salgues, S., Jacquot, A., Makowski, D., Tahar, C., Baekeland, J., Arcangeli, M., Dokic, J., Piolino, P., & Sperduti, M. (2024). Self-reference and emotional reaction drive aesthetic judgment. Scientific Reports. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-68331-9

See also

• The Beauty and the Self: A Common Mnemonic Advantage Between Aesthetic Judgment and Self-Reference — Lee, H., Jacquot, A., Makowski, D., Arcangeli, M., Dokic, J., Piolino, P., & Sperduti, M. (2024)
• 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)
• Disentangling the social from the aesthetic: neuropsychology for urban design — Mavros, P., Olszewska-Guizzo, A., & Makowski, D. (2023)