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Does art expertise facilitate distancing?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 November 2017

Helmut Leder  and
Norbert Schwarz
Helmut Leder
Affiliation:
Faculty of Psychology – Cognitive Sciences Research Platform, University of Vienna, 1010 Vienna, Austria. helmut.leder@univie.ac.at http://ppcms.univie.ac.at/index.php?id=2559
Norbert Schwarz
Affiliation:
Dornsife Mind & Society Center, University of Southern California. Los Angeles, CA 90089-1061 norbert.schwarz@usc.ed https://dornsife.usc.edu/norbert-schwarz/
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Abstract

With respect to the Distancing-Embracing model, we discuss whether experts with well-developed and highly accessible schemata that lend themselves to distancing have initial affective reactions similar to those of novices, who lack access to well-developed distancing mechanisms, and whether differences between experts' and novices' responses are apparent only after distancing mechanisms have had a chance to do their work. We revisit findings from Leder et al. (2014) and discuss the role of mixed emotions and fluency.

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Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 40 , 2017 , e370
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2017 

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