Constituents of Music and Visual-Art Related Pleasure - A Critical Integrative Literature Review.

ABSTRACT: The present literature review investigated how pleasure induced by music and visual-art has been conceptually understood in empirical research over the past 20 years. After an initial selection of abstracts from seven databases (keywords: pleasure, reward, enjoyment, and hedonic), twenty music and eleven visual-art papers were systematically compared. The following questions were addressed: (1) What is the role of the keyword in the research question? (2) Is pleasure considered a result of variation in the perceiver's internal or external attributes? (3) What are the most commonly employed methods and main variables in empirical settings? Based on these questions, our critical integrative analysis aimed to identify which themes and processes emerged as key features for conceptualizing art-

SUBMITTER: Tiihonen M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5517436 | biostudies-literature | 2017

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature