Processing Fluency and Aesthetic Pleasure: Is Beauty in the Perceiver's Processing Experience?

@article{Reber2004ProcessingFA,  title={Processing Fluency and Aesthetic Pleasure: Is Beauty in the Perceiver's Processing Experience?},  author={Rolf Reber and Norbert Schwarz and Piotr Winkielman},  journal={Personality and Social Psychology Review},  year={2004},  volume={8},  pages={364 - 382},  url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:1868463}}
This work proposes that aesthetic pleasure is a funnction of the perceiver's processing dynamics: the more fluently perceivers can process an object, the more positive their aesthetic response, and reviews variables known to influence aesthetic judgments, and traces their effects to changes in processing fluency.

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