Valentin Wagner
Biographic Data
| ID | 3594182 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Valentin Wagner |
| GIVEN NAMES | Valentin |
| FAMILY NAME | Wagner |
| SIGNATURE | WAGNER V |
| AFFILIATIONS | Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9510-351X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 19 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Who Attends the Arts and why? Examining the Role of Personality Across Two Distinct Samples
Previous research in psychological aesthetics has already highlighted the influence of personality on the experience and appreciation of art. And yet, the question of whether personality can manifest itself in arts attendance behavior remains far from settled. We therefore aimed at examining whether personality-measured with the Mini International Personality Item Pool-is linked to arts attendance motivations as well as to the art forms people ch…
Feeling blue? Arts attendance as a moderator of the effect of neuroticism on subjective well-being: Evidence from two national panel studies
Neuroticism has long been known as a risk factor for reduced happiness and impaired health. And yet, despite the growing evidence linking arts engagement to happiness, the question remains: Do people high in neuroticism benefit from arts engagement? Using data from two nationally representative panel studies from Germany ( N = 874) and Switzerland ( N = 6,336) we examined whether arts attendance moderates the relation between neuroticism and subj…
Melody in poems and songs: Fundamental statistical properties predict aesthetic evaluation
Smooth as glass and hard as stone? On the conceptual structure of the aesthetics of materials
Do timing and reference frame of feedback influence high-stakes educational outcomes
Reading Poetry and Prose: Eye Movements and Acoustic Evidence
We examined genre-specific reading strategies for literary texts and hypothesized that text categorization (literary prose vs. poetry) modulates both how readers gather information from a text (eye movements) and how they realize its phonetic surface form (speech production). We recorded eye movements and speech while college students (N = 32) orally read identical texts that we categorized and formatted as either literary prose or poetry. We fur…
Effects of continuous self-reporting on aesthetic evaluation and emotional responses
A good, a bad, and an evil character: Who renders a novel most enjoyable?✰
The choice, or invention, of protagonists is an important part of the poetics and aesthetics of narratives and dramas. Aristotle stipulated that, for the purposes of engaging the readers or onlookers, protagonists should neither be excessively good nor excessively bad, leaving room for much variation in the middle-ground ( Aristotle, 1961 ). A theoretical model of the enjoyment of negative emotions in art reception (Menninghaus et al., 2017) supp…
What are aesthetic emotions?
This is the first comprehensive theoretical article on aesthetic emotions. Following Kant's definition, we propose that it is the first and foremost characteristic of aesthetic emotions to make a direct contribution to aesthetic evaluation/appreciation. Each aesthetic emotion is tuned to a special type of perceived aesthetic appeal and is predictive of the subjectively felt pleasure or displeasure and the liking or disliking associated with this …
Sentence judgments and the grammar of poetry: Linking linguistic structure and poetic effect
The Distancing-Embracing model of the enjoyment of negative emotions in art reception
Why are negative emotions so central in art reception far beyond tragedy? Revisiting classical aesthetics in the light of recent psychological research, we present a novel model to explain this much discussed (apparent) paradox. We argue that negative emotions are an important resource for the arts in general, rather than a special license for exceptional art forms only. The underlying rationale is that negative emotions have been shown to be par…
Measuring aesthetic emotions: A review of the literature and a new assessment tool
Aesthetic perception and judgement are not merely cognitive processes, but also involve feelings. Therefore, the empirical study of these experiences requires conceptualization and measurement of aesthetic emotions. Despite the long-standing interest in such emotions, we still lack an assessment tool to capture the broad range of emotions that occur in response to the perceived aesthetic appeal of stimuli. Elicitors of aesthetic emotions are not …
The emotional and aesthetic powers of parallelistic diction
"Mapping the aesthetic space of literature "from below
The present paper aims to elucidate the conceptual structure of the aesthetics of literature.Following Fechner's "aesthetics from below" (1876) and adopting a method introduced by Jacobsen, Buchta, Kohler, and Schroeger (2004), we asked 1544 German-speaking research participants to list adjectives that they use to label aesthetic dimensions of literature in general and of individual literary forms and genres in particular (novels, short stories, …
Towards a Psychological Construct of Being Moved
The emotional state of being moved, though frequently referred to in both classical rhetoric and current language use, is far from established as a well-defined psychological construct. In a series of three studies, we investigated eliciting scenarios, emotional ingredients, appraisal patterns, feeling qualities, and the affective signature of being moved and related emotional states. The great majority of the eliciting scenarios can be assigned …
"Mapping the aesthetic space of literature "from below
The present paper aims to elucidate the conceptual structure of the aesthetics of literature.Following Fechner's "aesthetics from below" (1876) and adopting a method introduced by Jacobsen, Buchta, Kohler, and Schroeger (2004), we asked 1544 German-speaking research participants to list adjectives that they use to label aesthetic dimensions of literature in general and of individual literary forms and genres in particular (novels, short stories, …
The emotional and aesthetic powers of parallelistic diction
Sentence judgments and the grammar of poetry: Linking linguistic structure and poetic effect
A good, a bad, and an evil character: Who renders a novel most enjoyable?✰
The choice, or invention, of protagonists is an important part of the poetics and aesthetics of narratives and dramas. Aristotle stipulated that, for the purposes of engaging the readers or onlookers, protagonists should neither be excessively good nor excessively bad, leaving room for much variation in the middle-ground ( Aristotle, 1961 ). A theoretical model of the enjoyment of negative emotions in art reception (Menninghaus et al., 2017) supp…
Reading Poetry and Prose: Eye Movements and Acoustic Evidence
We examined genre-specific reading strategies for literary texts and hypothesized that text categorization (literary prose vs. poetry) modulates both how readers gather information from a text (eye movements) and how they realize its phonetic surface form (speech production). We recorded eye movements and speech while college students (N = 32) orally read identical texts that we categorized and formatted as either literary prose or poetry. We fur…
Towards a Psychological Construct of Being Moved
The emotional state of being moved, though frequently referred to in both classical rhetoric and current language use, is far from established as a well-defined psychological construct. In a series of three studies, we investigated eliciting scenarios, emotional ingredients, appraisal patterns, feeling qualities, and the affective signature of being moved and related emotional states. The great majority of the eliciting scenarios can be assigned …
"Mapping the aesthetic space of literature "from below
The present paper aims to elucidate the conceptual structure of the aesthetics of literature.Following Fechner's "aesthetics from below" (1876) and adopting a method introduced by Jacobsen, Buchta, Kohler, and Schroeger (2004), we asked 1544 German-speaking research participants to list adjectives that they use to label aesthetic dimensions of literature in general and of individual literary forms and genres in particular (novels, short stories, …
The Distancing-Embracing model of the enjoyment of negative emotions in art reception
Why are negative emotions so central in art reception far beyond tragedy? Revisiting classical aesthetics in the light of recent psychological research, we present a novel model to explain this much discussed (apparent) paradox. We argue that negative emotions are an important resource for the arts in general, rather than a special license for exceptional art forms only. The underlying rationale is that negative emotions have been shown to be par…
Measuring aesthetic emotions: A review of the literature and a new assessment tool
Aesthetic perception and judgement are not merely cognitive processes, but also involve feelings. Therefore, the empirical study of these experiences requires conceptualization and measurement of aesthetic emotions. Despite the long-standing interest in such emotions, we still lack an assessment tool to capture the broad range of emotions that occur in response to the perceived aesthetic appeal of stimuli. Elicitors of aesthetic emotions are not …
The emotional and aesthetic powers of parallelistic diction
Sentence judgments and the grammar of poetry: Linking linguistic structure and poetic effect
What are aesthetic emotions?
This is the first comprehensive theoretical article on aesthetic emotions. Following Kant's definition, we propose that it is the first and foremost characteristic of aesthetic emotions to make a direct contribution to aesthetic evaluation/appreciation. Each aesthetic emotion is tuned to a special type of perceived aesthetic appeal and is predictive of the subjectively felt pleasure or displeasure and the liking or disliking associated with this …
Effects of continuous self-reporting on aesthetic evaluation and emotional responses
A good, a bad, and an evil character: Who renders a novel most enjoyable?✰
The choice, or invention, of protagonists is an important part of the poetics and aesthetics of narratives and dramas. Aristotle stipulated that, for the purposes of engaging the readers or onlookers, protagonists should neither be excessively good nor excessively bad, leaving room for much variation in the middle-ground ( Aristotle, 1961 ). A theoretical model of the enjoyment of negative emotions in art reception (Menninghaus et al., 2017) supp…
Reading Poetry and Prose: Eye Movements and Acoustic Evidence
We examined genre-specific reading strategies for literary texts and hypothesized that text categorization (literary prose vs. poetry) modulates both how readers gather information from a text (eye movements) and how they realize its phonetic surface form (speech production). We recorded eye movements and speech while college students (N = 32) orally read identical texts that we categorized and formatted as either literary prose or poetry. We fur…
Melody in poems and songs: Fundamental statistical properties predict aesthetic evaluation
Smooth as glass and hard as stone? On the conceptual structure of the aesthetics of materials
Do timing and reference frame of feedback influence high-stakes educational outcomes
Feeling blue? Arts attendance as a moderator of the effect of neuroticism on subjective well-being: Evidence from two national panel studies
Neuroticism has long been known as a risk factor for reduced happiness and impaired health. And yet, despite the growing evidence linking arts engagement to happiness, the question remains: Do people high in neuroticism benefit from arts engagement? Using data from two nationally representative panel studies from Germany ( N = 874) and Switzerland ( N = 6,336) we examined whether arts attendance moderates the relation between neuroticism and subj…
Who Attends the Arts and why? Examining the Role of Personality Across Two Distinct Samples
Previous research in psychological aesthetics has already highlighted the influence of personality on the experience and appreciation of art. And yet, the question of whether personality can manifest itself in arts attendance behavior remains far from settled. We therefore aimed at examining whether personality-measured with the Mini International Personality Item Pool-is linked to arts attendance motivations as well as to the art forms people ch…
Psychology (12 works) · Aesthetic Perception and Analysis (11 works) · Art (8 works) · Social Psychology (8 works) · Aesthetics (7 works) · Computer Science (6 works) · Multisensory perception and integration (6 works) · Philosophy (5 works) · Poetry (5 works) · Cognitive psychology (4 works)