Henrik Høgh-Olesen
Biographic Data
| ID | 184776 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Henrik Høgh-Olesen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Henrik |
| FAMILY NAME | Høgh-Olesen |
| SIGNATURE | HØGH-OLESEN H |
| AFFILIATIONS | Professor, Social & Personality Psychology, Aarhus University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 12 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Walking for well-being. Exploring the phenomenology of modern pilgrimage
Modern pilgrimages are gaining popularity in Western culture despite increased secularization. Historically, pilgrimages were a religious ritual with the goal of personal transformation. This study explores the phenomenology of modern pilgrimage: the motivations to go on a pilgrimage, the experience and the subsequent changes. An explorative study was conducted on 142 pilgrims. The results indicate that 74% of the participants were motivated by p…
Appetence, Key Stimuli, and Core Affects
Article Appetence, Key Stimuli, and Core Affects: Foundational Elements of Human Behavior and Mind was published on December 1, 2021 in the journal Evolutionary Studies in Imaginative Culture (volume 5, issue 2)
Do dark personalities prefer dark characters? A personality psychological approach to positive engagement with fictional villainy
Paradoxically, villainous characters in film, literature, and video games can be very popular. Previous research in the traditions of cognitive media theory and affective disposition theory has assumed that villainous characters can inspire positive engagement only when audiences discount the villains’ immorality by focusing on positive traits or mitigating circumstances. Challenging this assumption, we argue that audiences with a conventionally …
Winfried Menninghaus. Aesthetics After Darwin
Article Winfried Menninghaus. Aesthetics After Darwin: The Multiple Origins and Functions of the Arts was published on December 1, 2020 in the journal Evolutionary Studies in Imaginative Culture (volume 4, issue 1)
The Roots of Human Creativity
Humans are neophile, curious, and explorative animals with impressive capabilities for creative problem-solving. I discuss some of the ultimate roots behind human creativity while reviewing two books on creativity and problem-solving. To E. O. Wilson, the driving force behind creativity is our instinctive love of novelty, and creativity’s ultimate goal is “self-understanding.” I elaborate on and question this assumption. The theories of inclusi…
The Implicit Narrativity of Objects and Ornaments—Widening the View
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The Aesthetic Animal
The Aesthetic Animal answers the ultimate questions of why we adorn ourselves; embellish our things and surroundings; and produce art, music, song, dance, and fiction. Humans are aesthetic animals that spend vast amounts of time and resources on seemingly useless aesthetic activities. However, nature would not allow a species to waste precious time and effort on activities completely unrelated to the survival, reproduction, and well-being of that…
Aesthetics and Fetishism
A fetish is a specific emotionally loaded object, body part, or situation that draws our attention and desire, and sexual fetishism is the sexual arousal that a person experiences when in contact with such a loaded object. Until now, psychology has had trouble understanding the distinctive lust objects and the orchestration of urges in the world of fetishism, so fetishism has therefore fallen into the category of perversions and abnormal behavior…
Aesthetic Animal
Testing Theories about Ethnic Markers
In recent years, evolutionary psychologists and anthropologists have debated whether ethnic markers have evolved to solve adaptive problems related to interpersonal coordination or to interpersonal cooperation. In the present study, we add to this debate by exploring how individuals living in a modern society utilize the accents of unfamiliar individuals to make social decisions in hypothetical economic games that measure interpersonal trust, gen…
Receptivity to sexual invitations from strangers of the opposite gender
Human Morality and Sociality
Human Morality and Sociality
Do dark personalities prefer dark characters? A personality psychological approach to positive engagement with fictional villainy
Paradoxically, villainous characters in film, literature, and video games can be very popular. Previous research in the traditions of cognitive media theory and affective disposition theory has assumed that villainous characters can inspire positive engagement only when audiences discount the villains’ immorality by focusing on positive traits or mitigating circumstances. Challenging this assumption, we argue that audiences with a conventionally …
Testing Theories about Ethnic Markers
In recent years, evolutionary psychologists and anthropologists have debated whether ethnic markers have evolved to solve adaptive problems related to interpersonal coordination or to interpersonal cooperation. In the present study, we add to this debate by exploring how individuals living in a modern society utilize the accents of unfamiliar individuals to make social decisions in hypothetical economic games that measure interpersonal trust, gen…
Receptivity to sexual invitations from strangers of the opposite gender
Human Morality and Sociality
Human Morality and Sociality
Testing Theories about Ethnic Markers
In recent years, evolutionary psychologists and anthropologists have debated whether ethnic markers have evolved to solve adaptive problems related to interpersonal coordination or to interpersonal cooperation. In the present study, we add to this debate by exploring how individuals living in a modern society utilize the accents of unfamiliar individuals to make social decisions in hypothetical economic games that measure interpersonal trust, gen…
The Aesthetic Animal
The Aesthetic Animal answers the ultimate questions of why we adorn ourselves; embellish our things and surroundings; and produce art, music, song, dance, and fiction. Humans are aesthetic animals that spend vast amounts of time and resources on seemingly useless aesthetic activities. However, nature would not allow a species to waste precious time and effort on activities completely unrelated to the survival, reproduction, and well-being of that…
Aesthetics and Fetishism
A fetish is a specific emotionally loaded object, body part, or situation that draws our attention and desire, and sexual fetishism is the sexual arousal that a person experiences when in contact with such a loaded object. Until now, psychology has had trouble understanding the distinctive lust objects and the orchestration of urges in the world of fetishism, so fetishism has therefore fallen into the category of perversions and abnormal behavior…
Aesthetic Animal
The Roots of Human Creativity
Humans are neophile, curious, and explorative animals with impressive capabilities for creative problem-solving. I discuss some of the ultimate roots behind human creativity while reviewing two books on creativity and problem-solving. To E. O. Wilson, the driving force behind creativity is our instinctive love of novelty, and creativity’s ultimate goal is “self-understanding.” I elaborate on and question this assumption. The theories of inclusi…
The Implicit Narrativity of Objects and Ornaments—Widening the View
TEST 02 - Elsevier's Scopus, the largest abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature. Search and access research from the science, technology, medicine, social sciences and arts and humanities fields
Winfried Menninghaus. Aesthetics After Darwin
Article Winfried Menninghaus. Aesthetics After Darwin: The Multiple Origins and Functions of the Arts was published on December 1, 2020 in the journal Evolutionary Studies in Imaginative Culture (volume 4, issue 1)
Appetence, Key Stimuli, and Core Affects
Article Appetence, Key Stimuli, and Core Affects: Foundational Elements of Human Behavior and Mind was published on December 1, 2021 in the journal Evolutionary Studies in Imaginative Culture (volume 5, issue 2)
Do dark personalities prefer dark characters? A personality psychological approach to positive engagement with fictional villainy
Paradoxically, villainous characters in film, literature, and video games can be very popular. Previous research in the traditions of cognitive media theory and affective disposition theory has assumed that villainous characters can inspire positive engagement only when audiences discount the villains’ immorality by focusing on positive traits or mitigating circumstances. Challenging this assumption, we argue that audiences with a conventionally …
Walking for well-being. Exploring the phenomenology of modern pilgrimage
Modern pilgrimages are gaining popularity in Western culture despite increased secularization. Historically, pilgrimages were a religious ritual with the goal of personal transformation. This study explores the phenomenology of modern pilgrimage: the motivations to go on a pilgrimage, the experience and the subsequent changes. An explorative study was conducted on 142 pilgrims. The results indicate that 74% of the participants were motivated by p…
Psychology (8 works) · Aesthetics (7 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Art (5 works) · Philosophy (5 works) · Social Psychology (5 works) · Computer Science (4 works) · Epistemology (4 works) · Aesthetic Perception and Analysis (2 works) · Biology (2 works)