A Dual-Process Perspective on Fluency-Based Aesthetics The Pleasure-Interest Model of Aesthetic Liking

• Published in: Personality and social psychology review Vol. 19; no. 4; pp. 395 - 410
• Main Authors: Graf, Laura K. M., Landwehr, Jan R.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Los Angeles, CA SAGE Publications 01.11.2015; SAGE PUBLICATIONS, INC
• Subjects: Aesthetics; Cognition; Cognitive psychology; Emotions; Esthetics - psychology; Humans; Mental health; Models, Psychological; Motivation; Pleasure; boredom; empirical aesthetics; interest; dual-process theories; pleasure; need for cognitive enrichment; epistemic motivation; processing fluency; confusion

In this article, we develop an account of how aesthetic preferences can be formed as a result of two hierarchical, fluency-based processes. Our model suggests that processing performed immediately upon encountering an aesthetic object is stimulus driven, and aesthetic preferences that accrue from th...