When Challenging Art Gets Liked: Evidences for a Dual Preference Formation Process for Fluent and Non-Fluent Portraits.

Although fluency theory predominates psychological research on human aesthetics, its most severe limitation may be to explain why art that challenges or even violates easy processing can nevertheless be aesthetically rewarding. We discuss long-standing notions on art's potential to offer mental...

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Published in:PLoS ONE
Main Authors: Benno Belke, Helmut Leder, Claus-Christian Carbon
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2015-01-01
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0131796