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| Id | 712 | |
| Author | Mastandrea S., Fagioli S., Biasi V. | |
| Title | Art and psychological well-being: Linking the brain to the aesthetic emotion | |
| Reference | Mastandrea S., Fagioli S., Biasi V.; Art and psychological well-being: Linking the brain to the aesthetic emotion ;Frontiers in Psychology vol:10 issue: page: |
Link to article | https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85064761687&doi=10.3389%2ffpsyg.2019.00739&partnerID=40&md5=697cb5b53cee6ae056c7465e0d141b6b |
| Abstract | Empirical studies suggest that art improves health and well-being among individuals. However, how aesthetic appreciation affects our cognitive and emotional states to promote physical and psychological well-being is still unclear. In this review, we consider the idea that the positive emotional output elicited from the aesthetic experience affects mood, and indirectly promotes health and well-being. First, we examine evidence that arts promoting well-being involve art museums, healthcare settings, and education. Second, we review some neuroimaging studies addressing aesthetic experience and emotional processing. In particular, we leveraged advances in neuroaesthetics to explore different hypotheses about the determinants of aesthetic pleasure during art reception, in the attempt to clarify how experiencing art promotes well-being. Finally, we propose research on aesthetic experience and psychophysiological measures of stress, with the goal of promoting a focused use of art as a tool for improving well-being and health. © 2019 Mastandrea, Fagioli and Biasi. |
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| Using psychophysiological measures, studies find visits to art museums decrease stress, which could promote health and well-being (Clow and Fredhoi, 2006; Mastandrea et al., 2018). . | In this review, we consider the idea that the positive emotional output elicited from the aesthetic experience affects mood, and indirectly promotes health and well-being. . | CONCLUSION Aesthetic experience, in many settings, may promote well-being. . | The self-rewarding nature of aesthetic experience may influence the beholders affective state, possibly improving wellbeing. . | Empirical studies suggest that art improves health and well-being among individuals. . | Linking the Brain to Aesthetic Experience The studies reviewed so far demonstrated that the aesthetic value of artwork and their use in educational programs may affect psychological and physiological states, thus promoting well-being and enhancing learning. . | Nevertheless, these different approaches to aesthetic evaluation may have different implications for a strategic use of art as tool for promoting well-being and health. . | Deeper understanding of the dynamic relationship between bottom-up stimulus properties and top-down cognitive appraisal on emotional experience during the aesthetic appreciation of an artwork might be useful to effective use of art-based tools for promoting individual health and well-being. . | These benefits include improvement of memory and lower stress levels, and amelioration of social inclusion. . | These studies suggest that embedding visual art in healthcare education may increase understanding of emotional experience of chronic pain and suffering of the patients, thereby improving nursing care practices. . | One might wonder how the emotional experience elicited by the appreciation of diverse forms of art enables individuals to feel better and learn quickly and effectively, and whether the boosting effect of art on these different domains forms a basis of a common cognitive or affective mechanism. . | From a psychological point of view, it has been suggested that the cognitive processing of art produces affective and often positive and pleasing aesthetic experiences. . | As such, this self-rewarding nature of aesthetic experience may account for aesthetic appreciations promotion of health and well-being. . | Aesthetic experience concerns the appreciation of aesthetic objects and the resulting pleasure. . | Alternatively, it may be that experiencing positive aesthetic emotions is not only the outcome of a special empathetic state provoked by the artwork but may depend on the level of perceived ambiguity in the artwork itself. . | In particular, we leveraged advances in neuroaesthetics to explore different hypotheses about the determinants of aesthetic pleasure during art reception, in the attempt to clarify how experiencing art promotes well-being. . | If aesthetically pleasing, such an experience can be defined rewarding. . | In this review, we refer to aesthetic experiences associated with the appreciation of artworks, particularly visual arts. . | Here, we review evidence showing that arts promote well-being across several domains, and discuss the neural underpinnings of aesthetic experience, emotional processing, pleasure, and reward. . |
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