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Profiling the musical sublime

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The experience of the sublime is often characterized by an intense, complex, and mixed (i.e., presenting both negative and positive aspects) affective state. It seems to involve specific features such as an immersive experience and a diminished sense of the self (Arcangeli et al. 2019). From this, we hypothesized that music is an interesting and good elicitor of sublimity experiences. In this study we investigated the affective and cognitive features of the sublimity experience that characterizes and differentiates it from experiences of beauty in musical contexts. A self-report questionnaire assessing the aesthetic experience through 50 items was administered to a large sample of French adults (N = 277) in order to describe a musical experience corresponding either to an experience of the sublime or to an aesthetic experience related to the beauty. Using an exploratory factor analysis, we defined eight specific dimensions along which an aesthetic musical experience can be characterized. Interestingly, we observed that the musical experiences of sublimity and beauty differed on some dimensions. Thus, the results indicated that, compared to the experience of beauty, the experience of the sublime generated i/ a higher presence of negative affect (associated to positive affect), ii/ a higher feeling of grandeur, iii/ a higher experience of self-expansion, probably due to the blurred distinction between the self and the world, iv/ a higher experience of self-retraction associated to a diminished sense of self, and finally iv/ a higher feeling of being moved. These findings suggest that the experience of the sublime elicited by music is characterized by a special form of experiential immersion in which the distinction between the self and the world tends to disappear, and a diminished sense of the self.
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hal-03501710 , version 1 (23-12-2021)

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Amélie Jacquot, Marco Sperduti, Margherita Arcangeli, Esteban Buch, Jérôme Dokic, et al.. Profiling the musical sublime. ESCAN 2021 – European Society for Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, Jun 2021, Budapest, Hungary. ⟨hal-03501710⟩
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