TY  - JOUR
A1  - Isik, Ayse Ilkay
A1  - Vessel, Edward A.
T1  - Continuous ratings of movie watching reveal idiosyncratic dynamics of aesthetic enjoyment
T2  - PLoS one
N2  - Visual aesthetic experiences unfold over time, yet most of our understanding of such experiences comes from experiments using static visual stimuli and measuring static responses. Here, we investigated the temporal dynamics of subjective aesthetic experience using temporally extended stimuli (movie clips) in combination with continuous behavioral ratings. Two groups of participants, a rate group (n = 25) and a view group (n = 25), watched 30-second video clips of landscapes and dance performances in test and retest blocks. The rate group reported continuous ratings while watching the videos, with an overall aesthetic judgment at the end of each video, in both test and retest blocks. The view group, however, passively watched the videos in the test block, reporting only an overall aesthetic judgment at the end of each clip. In the retest block, the view group reported both continuous and overall judgments. When comparing the two groups, we found that the task of making continuous ratings did not influence overall ratings or agreement across participants. In addition, the degree of temporal variation in continuous ratings over time differed substantially by observer (from slower "integrators" to "fast responders"), but less so by video. Reliability of continuous ratings across repeated exposures was in general high, but also showed notable variance across participants. Together, these results show that temporally extended stimuli produce aesthetic experiences that are not the same from person to person, and that continuous behavioral ratings provide a reliable window into the temporal dynamics of such aesthetic experiences while not materially altering the experiences themselves.
KW  - Psychological attitudes
KW  - Behavior
KW  - Dynamical systems
KW  - Emotions
KW  - Regression analysis
KW  - Research validity
KW  - Happiness
KW  - Integrators
Y1  - 2019
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/51394
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-513948
SN  - 1932-6203
N1  - Copyright: © 2019 Isik, Vessel. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
VL  - 14
IS  - (10): e0223896
SP  - 1
EP  - 21
PB  - PLoS
CY  - Lawrence, Kan.
ER  -