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Empathy-Related Responses to Depicted People in Art Works
Existing theories of empathic response to visual art works postulate the primacy of automatic embodied reaction to images based on mirror neuron mechanisms. Arguing for a more inclusive concept of empathy-related response and integrating four distinct bodies of literature, we discuss contextual, and...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5323429/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28286487 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2017.00228 |
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author | Kesner, Ladislav Horáček, Jiří |
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description | Existing theories of empathic response to visual art works postulate the primacy of automatic embodied reaction to images based on mirror neuron mechanisms. Arguing for a more inclusive concept of empathy-related response and integrating four distinct bodies of literature, we discuss contextual, and personal factors which modulate empathic response to depicted people. We then present an integrative model of empathy-related responses to depicted people in art works. The model assumes that a response to empathy-eliciting figural artworks engages the dynamic interaction of two mutually interlinked sets of processes: socio-affective/cognitive processing, related to the person perception, and esthetic processing, primarily concerned with esthetic appreciation and judgment and attention to non-social aspects of the image. The model predicts that the specific pattern of interaction between empathy-related and esthetic processing is co-determined by several sets of factors: (i) the viewer's individual characteristics, (ii) the context variables (which include various modes of priming by narratives and other images), (iii) multidimensional features of the image, and (iv) aspects of a viewer's response. Finally we propose that the model is implemented by the interaction of functionally connected brain networks involved in socio-cognitive and esthetic processing. |
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spelling | pubmed-53234292017-03-10 Empathy-Related Responses to Depicted People in Art Works Kesner, Ladislav Horáček, Jiří Front Psychol Psychology Existing theories of empathic response to visual art works postulate the primacy of automatic embodied reaction to images based on mirror neuron mechanisms. Arguing for a more inclusive concept of empathy-related response and integrating four distinct bodies of literature, we discuss contextual, and personal factors which modulate empathic response to depicted people. We then present an integrative model of empathy-related responses to depicted people in art works. The model assumes that a response to empathy-eliciting figural artworks engages the dynamic interaction of two mutually interlinked sets of processes: socio-affective/cognitive processing, related to the person perception, and esthetic processing, primarily concerned with esthetic appreciation and judgment and attention to non-social aspects of the image. The model predicts that the specific pattern of interaction between empathy-related and esthetic processing is co-determined by several sets of factors: (i) the viewer's individual characteristics, (ii) the context variables (which include various modes of priming by narratives and other images), (iii) multidimensional features of the image, and (iv) aspects of a viewer's response. Finally we propose that the model is implemented by the interaction of functionally connected brain networks involved in socio-cognitive and esthetic processing. Frontiers Media S.A. 2017-02-24 /pmc/articles/PMC5323429/ /pubmed/28286487 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2017.00228 Text en Copyright © 2017 Kesner and Horáček. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms. |
spellingShingle | Psychology Kesner, Ladislav Horáček, Jiří Empathy-Related Responses to Depicted People in Art Works |
title | Empathy-Related Responses to Depicted People in Art Works |
title_full | Empathy-Related Responses to Depicted People in Art Works |
title_fullStr | Empathy-Related Responses to Depicted People in Art Works |
title_full_unstemmed | Empathy-Related Responses to Depicted People in Art Works |
title_short | Empathy-Related Responses to Depicted People in Art Works |
title_sort | empathy-related responses to depicted people in art works |
topic | Psychology |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5323429/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28286487 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2017.00228 |
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