scholarly journals Using Aesthetic Response - A Poetic Inquiry to Expand Knowing, Part I: The Rx6-Method

2017 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Anna Gerge ◽  
Margareta Wärja ◽  
Inge Nygaard Pedersen
Keyword(s):  
Heuristic Inquiry ◽  
Affective Neuroscience ◽  
Aesthetic Response ◽  
Implicit Processes ◽  
Arts Based Research ◽  
Aesthetic Responses ◽  
Theoretical Perspectives ◽  
Felt Sense ◽  
Research Procedure ◽  
Response Art

A step-wise research procedure of arts-based research (ABR) called the Rx6 method is presented. This ABR method is informed by expressive arts therapy, heuristic inquiry, attachment theory, and contemporary affective neuroscience, and is aimed at deepening the understanding of embodied felt sense. The Rx6 approach is based in aesthetics and a pragmatic pre-understanding inspired from an interpretive and a constructivist tradition. The method is a heuristic endeavour where art is applied towards the creation of meaning. For the purpose of exemplifying this method, artwork, produced within the context of a randomized control trial as part of a mixed methods study involving women treated for gynaecological cancer, was used. Response art consisting of short written aesthetic responses to pictorial artifacts was applied in a structured manner. The data provided a rich artistic material in which to dialogue with artifacts in search of a condensed response statement. The Rx6 method involves six steps: to relate, resonate, respond, reflect and react to results. Engaging in ABR can offer clinicians and researchers a deepened, expanded, and embodied understanding of the studied phenomena. The complexity of sharing implicit processes and tacit knowledge, its caveats and gains, along with theoretical perspectives of such undertakings, are presented and discussed.

scholarly journals Using Aesthetic Response - A Poetic Inquiry to Expand Knowing, Part II: Theoretical Perspectives on Arts-based Research

2017 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Anna Gerge ◽  
Margareta Wärja ◽  
Inge Nygaard Pedersen
Keyword(s):  
Attachment Theory ◽  
Psychotherapy Research ◽  
Building Blocks ◽  
Affective Neuroscience ◽  
Aesthetic Response ◽  
Implicit Processes ◽  
Arts Based Research ◽  
The Arts ◽  
Theoretical Perspectives ◽  
Felt Sense

Apart from being inspired from both an interpretive and a constructivist tradition, research methods based in aesthetics can thrive from a clear rationale concerning its perceptual building-blocks in both the intersubjective and intra-psychological domains. This article aims to address the complexity of sharing implicit processes and tacit knowledge in the arts-based inquiry. Layers of this inquiry is reflected along with theoretical perspectives of such undertakings. The article also offers a theoretical rationale for why to add and acknowledge important perceptual and affective building blocks in arts-based research (ABR). Through theories from expressive arts therapy, heuristic inquiry, attachment theory and contemporary affective neuroscience some thoughts on the embodied felt sense as a perceptual hub is shared. Based in contemporary attachment theory and psychotherapy research, a rationale is given for why engaging in ABR can offer clinicians and researchers a deepened understanding of the studied phenomena. Our undertakings are presented in part 1 of these two articles. From this embodied perspective, the described arts-based inquiry can be considered as a privileged way to nuance and enlarge understanding in both the intersubjective and intra-psychological domain, which could be particularly helpful to ABR researchers who are informed by a psychodynamic perspective.

scholarly journals Wisconsin Twin Project Overview: Temperament and Affective Neuroscience

2019 ◽  
Vol 22 (6) ◽  
pp. 794-799
Author(s):  
Nicole L. Schmidt ◽  
Kathryn Lemery-Chalfant ◽  
H. Hill Goldsmith
Keyword(s):  
Young Adult ◽  
Longitudinal Research ◽  
Early Adulthood ◽  
Adolescent And Young Adult ◽  
Affective Neuroscience ◽  
Birth Cohorts ◽  
Environmental Assessments ◽  
Theoretical Perspectives ◽  
Birth Records ◽  
Early Recruitment

AbstractThe Wisconsin Twin Project encompasses nearly 30 years of longitudinal research that spans infancy to early adulthood. The twin sample was recruited from statewide birth records for birth cohorts 1989–2004. We summarize early recruitment, assessment, retention and recently completed twin neuroimaging studies. In addition to the focal twins, longitudinal data were also collected from two parents and nontwin siblings. Our adolescent and young adult neuroimaging sample (N = 600) completed several previous behavioral and environmental assessments, beginning shortly after birth. The extensive phenotyping is meant to support a range of empirical investigations with potentially differing theoretical perspectives.

Aesthetic Responses to a Series of Paintings by Paul Klee

1989 ◽  
Vol 69 (1) ◽  
pp. 339-348 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. C. Parrott
Keyword(s):  
Emotional Expression ◽  
Empirical Data ◽  
Da Vinci ◽  
The Other ◽  
Control Group ◽  
Aesthetic Response ◽  
Paul Klee ◽  
Aesthetic Responses ◽  
The Aesthetic ◽  
Experimental Group

The effects of exposure to a series of colour slides of paintings by Paul Klee were assessed with 69 nonexpert subjects. All subjects viewed the same 2 paintings by Klee while the other 10 paintings were varied between groups. The control group viewed paintings by 10 different artists (da Vinci, Picasso, Rubens, Dali). The first experimental group viewed 10 different paintings by Klee while the second experimental group saw 3 Klees in close detail. Differences in response to the 2 Klees seen by every group comprised the empirical data. The experimental groups produced higher ratings on questions of painting style; it was judged significantly more ‘clear’ and ‘representational’ in comparison with control group scores. Emotional expression was also significantly affected, but ratings of liking the painting were not generally changed. The effects of familiarity depend upon the nature of the aesthetic response being evaluated. Familiarity breeds understanding and perhaps comfort, but not increased interest.

Dewey, School Violence, and Aesthetic Response

2021 ◽  
pp. 624-654
Author(s):  
Patricia Louise Maarhuis ◽  
A. G. Rud
Keyword(s):  
School Violence ◽  
School Shootings ◽  
Gun Violence ◽  
Aesthetic Response ◽  
Relational Identity ◽  
Aesthetic Responses ◽  
Art Works ◽  
Made In ◽  
Sandy Hook

Since the tragic shootings at Sandy Hook Elementary in 2012 there have been at least 159 school shootings in America (Everytown, n.d.). This chapter focuses on application of Deweyan thought to school shootings and aesthetic responses. Educational and aesthetic theories are used to understand the effects of school violence and inquiry includes analysis of artful works made in response to shootings. Common themes are noted across all 3 sites in various aesthetic responses and the steps toward reconstruction of associated living. Findings suggest engagement in responsive art works may ameliorate the disruption and trauma of school shootings. Within aesthetic response, there is potential for reclamation, restoration, and re-presentation of experience through the doubled reconstruction of communal spaces/places and of relational identity after shooting incidents. Considerations include the use of aesthetic response and associated living practices by activist and educators as a potential means to understand and work against gun violence.

Researcher Positionality

2019 ◽  
pp. 26-47
Keyword(s):  
Lived Experience ◽  
Creative Thinking ◽  
Ways Of Knowing ◽  
Heuristic Inquiry ◽  
Cultural Experience ◽  
Arts Based Research ◽  
Doctoral Level ◽  
Doctoral Research ◽  
Creative Research ◽  
The Individual

This chapter presents researcher positionality within the context of two systematic methods of inquiry for the examination of self-as-subject: autoethnography and heuristic inquiry for doctoral-level research. These ways of knowing and understanding the lived experience of the self are meant to further inform not only the individual experience, but the collective or cultural experience at large. The articulation of researcher positionality is an essential precursor to doctoral inquiry, the supervision of which often requires doctoral research supervisor agency to oversee the heuristic introspection. While the doctoral scholar may not initially choose the approach as creative research, outcomes of the research may result in enhanced creative thinking and arts-based research products as representations of findings.

The Role of Collative Variables in Aesthetic Experiences

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Manuela Marin
Keyword(s):  
Visual Arts ◽  
Theoretical Perspective ◽  
Aesthetic Response ◽  
Aesthetic Experiences ◽  
Aesthetic Responses ◽  
Experimental Aesthetics ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Music Literature ◽  
Stimulus Features

Daniel Berlyne and his New Experimental Aesthetics have largely shaped the field since the 1970s by putting the study of collative variables related to stimulus features in the foreground, embedded in the context of motivation, arousal, and reward. Researchers from various fields have extensively studied the role of novelty, surprise, complexity, and ambiguity in aesthetic responses since then, employing a wide range of behavioral, computational, and neuroscientific methods. These studies have been conducted in different sensory and artistic domains, such as in music, literature, and the visual arts. The insights gained from these efforts are very promising from a broader theoretical perspective, and have opened up new avenues of research going beyond Berlyne’s psychobiological model of aesthetic response, leading to manifold applications in several practical fields.

scholarly journals How can arts-based research in dramatic performance illuminate understanding of the therapeutic relationship?

2019 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 279-292
Author(s):  
Drew Bird
Keyword(s):  
Therapeutic Alliance ◽  
Therapeutic Relationship ◽  
Heuristic Inquiry ◽  
Solo Performance ◽  
Arts Based Research ◽  
Dramatic Performance

This article explores how Heuristic Inquiry (HI), harnessed for arts-based research using solo performance, deepened the author’s understanding of the therapeutic relationship. The research explores the rehearsal and devising process of nine performances to explore barriers to a playful encounter with the audience and client using the myth of Psyche and Cupid. Themes of seeking approval, technique and shame are considered as potential obstacles to forging a co-creative therapeutic alliance.

Dewey, School Violence, and Aesthetic Response

2017 ◽  
pp. 237-266
Author(s):  
Patricia Louise Maarhuis ◽  
A. G. Rud
Keyword(s):  
School Violence ◽  
School Shootings ◽  
Gun Violence ◽  
Aesthetic Response ◽  
Relational Identity ◽  
Aesthetic Responses ◽  
Art Works ◽  
Made In ◽  
Sandy Hook

Since the tragic shootings at Sandy Hook Elementary in 2012 there have been at least 159 school shootings in America (Everytown, n.d.). This chapter focuses on application of Deweyan thought to school shootings and aesthetic responses. Educational and aesthetic theories are used to understand the effects of school violence and inquiry includes analysis of artful works made in response to shootings. Common themes are noted across all 3 sites in various aesthetic responses and the steps toward reconstruction of associated living. Findings suggest engagement in responsive art works may ameliorate the disruption and trauma of school shootings. Within aesthetic response, there is potential for reclamation, restoration, and re-presentation of experience through the doubled reconstruction of communal spaces/places and of relational identity after shooting incidents. Considerations include the use of aesthetic response and associated living practices by activist and educators as a potential means to understand and work against gun violence.

Arts-Based Research

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Janinka Greenwood
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Ways Of Knowing ◽  
The Political ◽  
Ethical Awareness ◽  
Art Making ◽  
Arts Based Research ◽  
Aesthetic Responses ◽  
The Arts ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
The World

Arts-based research encompasses a range of research approaches and strategies that utilize one or more of the arts in investigation. Such approaches have evolved from understandings that life and experiences of the world are multifaceted, and that art offers ways of knowing the world that involve sensory perceptions and emotion as well as intellectual responses. Researchers have used arts for various stages of research. It may be to collect or create data, to interpret or analyze it, to present their findings, or some combination of these. Sometimes arts-based research is used to investigate art making or teaching in or through the arts. Sometimes it is used to explore issues in the wider social sciences. The field is a constantly evolving one, and researchers have evolved diverse ways of using the communicative and interpretative tools that processes with the arts allow. These include ways to initially bypass the need for verbal expression, to explore problems in physically embodied as well as discursive ways, to capture and express ambiguities, liminalities, and complexities, to collaborate in the refining of ideas, to transform audience perceptions, and to create surprise and engage audiences emotionally as well as critically. A common feature within the wide range of approaches is that they involve aesthetic responses. The richness of the opportunities created by the use of arts in conducting and/or reporting research brings accompanying challenges. Among these are the political as well as the epistemological expectations placed on research, the need for audiences of research, and perhaps participants in research, to evolve ways of critically assessing the affect of as well as the information in presentations, the need to develop relevant and useful strategies for peer review of the research as well as the art, and the need to evolve ethical awareness that is consistent with the intentions and power of the arts.

The Empirical Aesthetics of Music

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elvira Brattico
Keyword(s):  
Aesthetic Experience ◽  
Life Experience ◽  
Neural Mechanisms ◽  
Psychological Processes ◽  
Aesthetic Response ◽  
Evaluative Judgments ◽  
Aesthetic Responses ◽  
Stimulus Features ◽  
The Aesthetic ◽  
The Individual

This chapter provides a structured overview of studies accounting for the aesthetic responses to music. Bottom-up accounts linking preference with determined stimulus features are distinguished from other cognitivist, emotivist, or contextual accounts putting more weight on nonappearance properties related to the individual life experience. Additionally, models of the musical aesthetic experience that emphasize psychological processes are illustrated as distinct from models that account also for the neural mechanisms involved. While most findings concentrate on the aesthetic response of pleasure or preference, fresh efforts are projected toward understanding other aesthetically tinged dimensions such as evaluative judgments and attitudes. Naturalistic approaches are promising toward understanding from the daily drive to musical activities to the life-changing peak experiences of music.

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