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Nature versus art as elicitors of the sublime: A virtual reality study
The sublime–the mixed aesthetic experience of uplift and elevation in response to a powerful or vast object that otherwise is experienced as menacing–has nurtured philosophical discourse for centuries. One of the major philosophical issues concerns whether the sublime is best thought of as a subject...
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2021
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7984734/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33750982 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0233628 |
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author | Chirico, Alice Clewis, Robert R. Yaden, David B. Gaggioli, Andrea |
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description | The sublime–the mixed aesthetic experience of uplift and elevation in response to a powerful or vast object that otherwise is experienced as menacing–has nurtured philosophical discourse for centuries. One of the major philosophical issues concerns whether the sublime is best thought of as a subjective response or as a stimulus. Recently, psychology has conceived of the sublime as an emotion, often referred to as awe, arising from natural or artistic stimuli that are great, rare, and/or vast. However, it has not yet been empirically demonstrated whether two major elicitors of the sublime–nature and art–differ in inducing this state. In order to experimentally compare nature and art, we exposed 50 participants to sublimity-inducing content in two different formats (nature-based and art-based) using 360° videos. We compared Vincent Van Gogh’s The Starry Night with a photorealistic version of the actual place depicted in the painting, Saint-Rémy-de-Provence. We measured participants’ emotional responses before and after each exposure, as well as the sense of presence. The nature-based format induced higher intensity emotional responses than the art-based format. This study compares different sublime stimuli (nature vs. art) for eliciting the sublime. |
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spelling | pubmed-79847342021-04-01 Nature versus art as elicitors of the sublime: A virtual reality study Chirico, Alice Clewis, Robert R. Yaden, David B. Gaggioli, Andrea PLoS One Research Article The sublime–the mixed aesthetic experience of uplift and elevation in response to a powerful or vast object that otherwise is experienced as menacing–has nurtured philosophical discourse for centuries. One of the major philosophical issues concerns whether the sublime is best thought of as a subjective response or as a stimulus. Recently, psychology has conceived of the sublime as an emotion, often referred to as awe, arising from natural or artistic stimuli that are great, rare, and/or vast. However, it has not yet been empirically demonstrated whether two major elicitors of the sublime–nature and art–differ in inducing this state. In order to experimentally compare nature and art, we exposed 50 participants to sublimity-inducing content in two different formats (nature-based and art-based) using 360° videos. We compared Vincent Van Gogh’s The Starry Night with a photorealistic version of the actual place depicted in the painting, Saint-Rémy-de-Provence. We measured participants’ emotional responses before and after each exposure, as well as the sense of presence. The nature-based format induced higher intensity emotional responses than the art-based format. This study compares different sublime stimuli (nature vs. art) for eliciting the sublime. Public Library of Science 2021-03-22 /pmc/articles/PMC7984734/ /pubmed/33750982 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0233628 Text en © 2021 Chirico et al http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) , which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. |
spellingShingle | Research Article Chirico, Alice Clewis, Robert R. Yaden, David B. Gaggioli, Andrea Nature versus art as elicitors of the sublime: A virtual reality study |
title | Nature versus art as elicitors of the sublime: A virtual reality study |
title_full | Nature versus art as elicitors of the sublime: A virtual reality study |
title_fullStr | Nature versus art as elicitors of the sublime: A virtual reality study |
title_full_unstemmed | Nature versus art as elicitors of the sublime: A virtual reality study |
title_short | Nature versus art as elicitors of the sublime: A virtual reality study |
title_sort | nature versus art as elicitors of the sublime: a virtual reality study |
topic | Research Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7984734/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33750982 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0233628 |
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