Gerald C. Cupchik is Professor of Psychology at the University of Toronto, Scarborough. His research focuses on emotion and aesthetics using quantitative and qualitative methods in a complementary manner in order to analyze how people respond to paintings and the emotional experiences people have while reading literature or watching films. He also works closely with artists to better understand the processes underlying their creative acts.
Prologue
1. Experiences in life and art
2. Thinking critically about emotion theories
3. The depth of affective processing
4. Emotional experiences as reactions
5. Antecedents of the motivational action models
6. Emotional phase theory
7. Neural underpinnings of emotional experiences and feeling-based actions
8. The aesthetic imagination
9. Affective processes and aesthetic reception
10. The 'aesthetics of emotion' as analogy and metaphor
11. Creative practices of contemporary artists
12. The cave artist's share
13. Studies in aesthetic reception
14. In search of a unified emotion theory
Epilogue.
