审美愉悦与加工流畅性

Insights into Aesthetic Pleasure and Processing Fluency

在审美过程中,如果人们很容易地获得了有关一个对象的信息,对其进行流畅的加工,那么人们就会产生愉悦感,而这种积极的审美回应会使人们对审美对象产生更多的喜爱之情。本文在对审美愉悦以及流畅性理论分析的基础上,阐述了二者在审美中的重要作用,同时指出流畅性理论与审美愉悦作用的深层机制还有待未来的研究和探索,二者的相互作用也需要更多的实证支持。

It＇s been long since beauty and aesthetics draw academic attentions, especially in psychological areas. General researches suggest that aesthetic preference is the result of joint action by objective traits and personal knowledge and experience. If the audiences have easy access to the information of certain artwork, then he/she may experience positive emotional arousal, and this positive emotion can then transfer into aesthetic pleasure. The kind of pleasure is instant and can be felt by the audience immediately if the processing is fluent. In other words, he two are positively correlated always. In article we define what is aesthetic pleasure and processing fluency, the relationship between aesthetic pleasure and positive emotions, and explain the whole process how processing fluency can influence and transform into aesthetic pleasure. And we suggest for further supporting empirical evidences.