Citation

Leddington J. Behav. Brain Sci. 2017; 40: e369.

Affiliation

Department of Philosophy,Bucknell University,Lewisburg,PA 17837.jason.leddington@bucknell.eduwww.jasonleddington.net.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2017, Cambridge University Press)

DOI

10.1017/S0140525X17001777

PMID

29342794

Abstract

Theatrical magic is designed to elicit negative emotions such as feelings of vulnerability, loss of control, apprehension, fear, confusion, and bafflement. This commentary suggests that the Distancing-Embracing model can help us understand how the experience of magic can be aesthetically pleasurable, not despite, rather thanks to, some of the strong negative emotions it provokes.

Language: en