Understanding the Beauty Appreciation Trait Empirical Research on Seeking Beauty in All Things /

• Main Author: Diessner, Rhett (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Subjects: Positive psychology.; Arts.; Personality.; Social psychology.; Positive Psychology.; Personality and Social Psychology.

"Brilliant, insightful, enjoyable, and inspirational. Rhett provides a remarkable analysis of appreciation of beauty that is both accurate and approachable. A pleasure to read!" -María Luisa Martínez-Martí, Universidad Camilo José Cela, Spain "In his book, Rhett Diessner presents...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Introduction: Why Beauty?
• Part I: Foundations
• 2. Brainiac Beauty: Philosophers and Beauty-What Some Philosophers Have to Say About Beauty That Is Relevant to Empirical Aesthetics (Or Possibly Just Interesting)
• 3. Beauty Becomes: Evolving Beauty
• 4. The Brain on Beauty: Neuroaesthetics
• Part II: Domains of Beauty
• 5. Noticing Nature's Beauty: The Trait of Engagement with Natural Beauty
• 6. Always Appreciative of Art's Beauty: The Trait of Engagement with Artistic Beauty
• 7. Magnificent Moral Beauty: The Trait of Engagement with Moral Beauty
• Part III: Human Development and Beauty
• 8. Beauty and the Be(a)st: Aesthetics and Pedagogy
• 9. Bountiful Beauty: Increasing Appreciation of Beauty.