Feelings evoked by Art List
Aesthetic appreciation / beauty (sense of balance, elegance, harmony).
Liking / enjoyment (simple positive, “I like this”). Empathy / compassion (feeling with the depicted person or scene). Being moved / touched (tender, poignant uplift, often mixed joy–sadness). Joy / happiness. Interest / curiosity. Wonder / amazement. Inspiration / feeling empowered or uplifted. Calm / serenity / tranquility. Intrigue / mysticism (sense of mystery or the uncanny). Nostalgia / reminiscence (memories, past-oriented reflection). Melancholy / sadness / sorrow. Awe (overwhelmed by scale, power, or sublimity). Surprise (something unexpected in form or content). Fear / anxiety / unease. Anger / rage. Disgust / aversion. Tension / suspense / uncertainty. Confusion / puzzlement. Respect / admiration (for skill, subject, or message). Simple grouping Mostly positive: beauty, liking, joy, inspiration, calm, admiration. Social–empathic: empathy, compassion, being moved, nostalgia. Epistemic / cognitive: interest, curiosity, wonder, surprise, confusion, mysticism. Mainly negative: sadness, fear, anger, disgust, tension/unease. Related Which methodology should I use to identify emotions in artworks How to aggregate emotion labels from multiple studies into a top list What percentage threshold defines emergence across artworks Can you provide a code example to compute emotion frequency How to map similar emotion terms into unified categoriesEmotional responses to stimuli are typically studied using a set of physiological (biometric) signals that reflect arousal, valence, and expression, often recorded simultaneously during exposure to images, video, sound, or artworks.
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