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Imaginative Culture and the Enriched Nature of Positive Experience
To understand the evolution of imaginative culture, we need to understand its unique affective power. The purpose of this article is to explain our enjoyment of imaginative culture from the standpoint of a distinctive theoretical approach to understanding affect in terms of the dynamic and energetic...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8934385/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35317010 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.831118 |
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description | To understand the evolution of imaginative culture, we need to understand its unique affective power. The purpose of this article is to explain our enjoyment of imaginative culture from the standpoint of a distinctive theoretical approach to understanding affect in terms of the dynamic and energetic features of consciousness. This approach builds upon John Dewey’s view of enjoyment as the enrichment of experience, adding perspectives from studies of the dynamics of consciousness and from ecological psychology. Its main thesis is that positive affect is determined by the causal enrichment of experience, which is defined as the differentiated-ness of conscious states. This approach suggests that the affective power of imaginative culture lies in the way it affords experiences of enriched meaning, as exemplified by our enjoyment of highly nuanced emotion in music. |
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spelling | pubmed-89343852022-03-21 Imaginative Culture and the Enriched Nature of Positive Experience Barrett, Nathaniel F. Front Psychol Psychology To understand the evolution of imaginative culture, we need to understand its unique affective power. The purpose of this article is to explain our enjoyment of imaginative culture from the standpoint of a distinctive theoretical approach to understanding affect in terms of the dynamic and energetic features of consciousness. This approach builds upon John Dewey’s view of enjoyment as the enrichment of experience, adding perspectives from studies of the dynamics of consciousness and from ecological psychology. Its main thesis is that positive affect is determined by the causal enrichment of experience, which is defined as the differentiated-ness of conscious states. This approach suggests that the affective power of imaginative culture lies in the way it affords experiences of enriched meaning, as exemplified by our enjoyment of highly nuanced emotion in music. Frontiers Media S.A. 2022-02-28 /pmc/articles/PMC8934385/ /pubmed/35317010 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.831118 Text en Copyright © 2022 Barrett. https://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) and the copyright owner(s) 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 Barrett, Nathaniel F. Imaginative Culture and the Enriched Nature of Positive Experience |
title | Imaginative Culture and the Enriched Nature of Positive Experience |
title_full | Imaginative Culture and the Enriched Nature of Positive Experience |
title_fullStr | Imaginative Culture and the Enriched Nature of Positive Experience |
title_full_unstemmed | Imaginative Culture and the Enriched Nature of Positive Experience |
title_short | Imaginative Culture and the Enriched Nature of Positive Experience |
title_sort | imaginative culture and the enriched nature of positive experience |
topic | Psychology |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8934385/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35317010 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.831118 |
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