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Hume, D. (1898/1757). Four Dissertations. In T. H. Green, & T. H. Grose (Eds.), The Philosophical Works of David Hume (1-240). London: Longmans, Green, and Co.

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• TITLE: Great Expectations—Narratives and the Elicitation of Aesthetic Chills

  AUTHORS: Felix Schoeller, Leonid Perlovsky

  KEYWORDS: Emotions, Aesthetic Chills, Expectations, Knowledge, Narratives, Meaning

  JOURNAL NAME: Psychology, Vol.6 No.16, December 29, 2015

  ABSTRACT: We clarify the relation between the perception of narratives and aesthetic emotions by relating them to mechanisms of knowledge-acquisition. Stories elicit emotions by diverging from expectations one may formulate on the basis of their properties. The greater the divergence, the stronger the emotion. Models of emotions, expectations, and knowledge-acquisition are briefly presented. We relate them to research pertaining to narrative structures and provide a mathematical description for aesthetic emotions. We conclude by underlining the fundamental role played by aesthetic emotions in the workings of the human mind.