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Mental health in recreational and professional dancers: a genetically informed study in Sweden

open access: yesSSM: Population Health
While recreational dancing has been associated with positive health outcomes, professional dancers tend to experience more mental health problems. Here, we studied the relationship between self-reported engagement and achievement in dance (from no ...
Julia F. Christensen   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Historical and Trans-historical Time of Art [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
The relationship between art and time is one of pre-figuration–transfiguration, a continuous exchange between the art of the present and that of the past and it is in this sense that we can understand how the works of art are have almost their entire ...
Mouriki, Alexandra
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Enabling effective urban green space stewardship through planning: A qualitative comparative analysis in Southwest England

open access: yesPeople and Nature, EarlyView.
Abstract Amid increasing urbanisation and biodiversity decline, ‘effective stewardship’ of urban green space (UGS) is a complex but critical nature‐based solution for long‐term environmental, social and economic gain. Combining stewardship and sense‐of‐place frameworks with European nature‐based solutions guidance, we investigate which social and ...
Fay Kahane   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Songs for the ego: Theorizing musical self-enhancement

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology, 2016
This paper outlines a theoretical account of musical self-enhancement. I claim that listening to music serves as a resource for actively manipulating affective states so that a positive self-view is maintained and a sense of optimism is provided.
Paul eElvers
doaj   +1 more source

The Warburg Dance Movement Library-The WADAMO Library: A Validation Study [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
The Warburg Dance Movement Library is a validated set of 234 video clips of dance movements for empirical research in the fields of cognitive science and neuroscience of action perception, affect perception and neuroaesthetics.
Christensen, J. F.   +2 more
core   +1 more source

Communities actively seek nature for well‐being despite constraints: (Re)representation of nature experiences through composite narratives

open access: yesPeople and Nature, EarlyView.
Abstract While the physical and mental health benefits of greenspace exposure are well documented, ethnic minority communities in the United Kingdom continue to engage with these environments at disproportionately lower rates. This persistent disparity points to an oversight in existing literature, specifically regarding how these communities navigate ...
Andrew K. Palmer   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Music and literature: are there shared empathy and predictive mechanisms underlying their affective impact?

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology, 2015
It has been suggested that music and language had a shared evolutionary precursor before becoming mainly responsible for the communication of emotive and referential meaning respectively.
Diana eOmigie
doaj   +1 more source

THE END OF ART AND PATOČKA’S PHILOSOPHY OF ART [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
In this essay I consider the end-of-art thesis in its metaphysical and empirical versions. I show that both use the correspondence theory of truth as the basis for their conception of the history of art.
Jan, Josl
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Caring for forests between attitude and platitude. Social relationships with nature in industrial forestry in Äänekoski, Finland

open access: yesPeople and Nature, EarlyView.
Abstract Forests play a pivotal role in sustainability transitions. This article explores how people's relationships with forests, particularly how they care for or take care of them, shape and reflect broader tendencies and tensions in forest utilization and governance.
Jana Rebecca Holz
wiley   +1 more source

Commentary on: Aesthetic Experience Explained by the Affect-Space Framework by Schubert, North and Hargreaves

open access: yesEmpirical Musicology Review, 2017
This commentary critically evaluates the target paper by Schubert, North and Hargreaves on the semantic structure of aesthetic experience. It places it in the context of existing research with a special emphasis on related debates in philosophy and ...
Melanie Wald-Fuhrmann
doaj   +1 more source

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