The emotions that can be considered members of the set of Aesthetic Emotions (AEs) is
controversial. The present study investigated the terms used by researchers in peer …

A study of 132 audience members of three classical public concerts (all three staged the
same chamber music pieces by Ludwig van Beethoven, Brett Dean, and Johannes Brahms) …

While there is an increasing shift in cognitive science to study perception of naturalistic
stimuli, this study extends this goal to naturalistic contexts by assessing physiological …

People differ in how they respond to artworks. Measuring such individual differences is
helpful for explaining response variability and selecting particularly responsive subsamples …

Entrainment and synchronization play major roles in understanding the emotional effects of
music; thus, we were interested in synchronized responses of concert audiences listening to …

La psychologie existentielle est une discipline scientifique dont les théories et méthodes
visent à comprendre l'existence humaine et les choix de vie, à saisir notre rapport à tout ce …

It is unclear how music elicits chills (emotional experiences accompanied by goosebumps,
shivers, and tingling sensations), and what psychological mechanisms underlie the …

Music listening can lead to strong aesthetic experiences. However, to gain deeper insights
into such experiences, more empirical research outside of laboratory settings is required …

Compared to audio only (AO) conditions, audiovisual (AV) information can enhance the
aesthetic experience of a music performance. However, such beneficial multimodal effects …

A ubiquitous aspect of the human experience is the creation of and engagement with art.
While the field of empirical aesthetics has traditionally focused on visual stimuli, researchers …