ArticleFrontiers in psychology2019
Intense Beauty Requires Intense Pleasure.
Article in Frontiers in psychology, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 21 papers.
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- Consensus and contention in beauty judgment.iScience · 2024Article
- Integrative processing in artificial and biological vision predicts the perceived beauty of natural images.Science advances · 2024Article
- Modelling individual aesthetic judgements over time.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2024Article
- Emotions of subject and object affect beauty differently for images and music.Journal of vision · 2023Article
- Beauty isn't special: Comparing the information capacity of beauty and other sensory judgments.Journal of vision · 2023Article
- The intrinsic variance of beauty judgment.Attention, perception & psychophysics · 2023Article
- Aesthetic experience models human learning.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2023Article
- Sensitivity to intrinsic rewards is domain general and related to mental health.Nature. Mental health · 2023Article
- Wearing mask hinders emotion recognition, but enhances perception of attractiveness.Personality and individual differences · 2022Article
- Beauty, the feeling.Acta psychologica · 2021Article
- The pleasure of multiple images.Attention, perception & psychophysics · 2021Article
- Plasma acetylcholine and nicotinic acid are correlated with focused preference for photographed females in depressed males: an economic game study.Scientific reports · 2021Article
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- Tracking two pleasures.Psychonomic bulletin & review · 2020Article
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Abstract
At the beginning of psychology, Fechner (1876) claimed that beauty is immediate pleasure, and that an object's pleasure determines its value. In our earlier work, we found that intense pleasure always results in intense beauty. Here, we focus on the inverse: Is intense pleasure
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