Ellen Winner is Professor of Psychology at Boston College and Senior Research Associate at Project Zero, Harvard Graduate School of Education. She directs the Arts and Mind Lab, which focuses on cognition in the arts in typical and gifted children as well as adults. She received the Rudolf Arnheim Award for Outstanding Research by a Senior Scholar in Psychology and the Arts from Division 10 in 2000.

• Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsI. INTRODUCTION1. Perennial Questions2. Can This Be Art?II. ART AND EMOTION3. Wordless Sounds: Hearing Emotion in Music4. Feeling Like Crying: Emotions in the Music Listener5. Color and Form: Emotional Connotations of Visual Art6. Emotions in the Art Museum: Why Don't We Feel Like Crying?7. Drawn to Pain: The Paradoxical Enjoyment of Negative Emotion in ArtIII. ART AND JUDGMENT8. Is It Good-Or Just Familiar?9. Too Easy to Be Good? The Effort Bias10. Identical! What's Wrong with a Perfect Fake?11. "But My Kid Could Have Done That!"IV. WHAT ART DOES - AND DOES NOT - DO FOR US12. Silver Bullets: Does Art Make Us Smarter?13. The Lives of Others: Fiction and Empathy14. Does Making Art Improve Well-Being?V. MAKING ART15. Who Makes Art and Why?VI. CONCLUSION16. How Art WorksNotesReferencesIndex

This shift from philosophical analysis to a robust empirical approach of experiment and observation is the starting point of this book, which is a fascinating account of social scientists' investigations of art through interviews, experiments, data collection, and statistical analysis. Winner touches on a variety of topics ranging from music and emotion, fiction and empathy, the Mozart effect, and perfect fakes and forgeries, to Hockney's theory of optical aids, effort bias, artistic prodigies, deliberate practice and talent, and our curious enjoyment of negative emotions. Recommended for all readers.

Ellen Winner is Professor of Psychology at Boston College and Senior Research Associate at Project Zero, Harvard Graduate School of Education. She directs the Arts and Mind Lab, which focuses on cognition in the arts in typical and gifted children as well as adults. She received the Rudolf Arnheim Award for Outstanding Research by a Senior Scholar in Psychology and the Arts from Division 10 in 2000.

• Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsI. INTRODUCTION1. Perennial Questions2. Can This Be Art?II. ART AND EMOTION3. Wordless Sounds: Hearing Emotion in Music4. Feeling Like Crying: Emotions in the Music Listener5. Color and Form: Emotional Connotations of Visual Art6. Emotions in the Art Museum: Why Don't We Feel Like Crying?7. Drawn to Pain: The Paradoxical Enjoyment of Negative Emotion in ArtIII. ART AND JUDGMENT8. Is It Good-Or Just Familiar?9. Too Easy to Be Good? The Effort Bias10. Identical! What's Wrong with a Perfect Fake?11. "But My Kid Could Have Done That!"IV. WHAT ART DOES - AND DOES NOT - DO FOR US12. Silver Bullets: Does Art Make Us Smarter?13. The Lives of Others: Fiction and Empathy14. Does Making Art Improve Well-Being?V. MAKING ART15. Who Makes Art and Why?VI. CONCLUSION16. How Art WorksNotesReferencesIndex

This shift from philosophical analysis to a robust empirical approach of experiment and observation is the starting point of this book, which is a fascinating account of social scientists' investigations of art through interviews, experiments, data collection, and statistical analysis. Winner touches on a variety of topics ranging from music and emotion, fiction and empathy, the Mozart effect, and perfect fakes and forgeries, to Hockney's theory of optical aids, effort bias, artistic prodigies, deliberate practice and talent, and our curious enjoyment of negative emotions. Recommended for all readers.

Ellen Winner is Professor of Psychology at Boston College and Senior Research Associate at Project Zero, Harvard Graduate School of Education. She directs the Arts and Mind Lab, which focuses on cognition in the arts in typical and gifted children as well as adults. She received the Rudolf Arnheim Award for Outstanding Research by a Senior Scholar in Psychology and the Arts from Division 10 in 2000.

• Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsI. INTRODUCTION1. Perennial Questions2. Can This Be Art?II. ART AND EMOTION3. Wordless Sounds: Hearing Emotion in Music4. Feeling Like Crying: Emotions in the Music Listener5. Color and Form: Emotional Connotations of Visual Art6. Emotions in the Art Museum: Why Don't We Feel Like Crying?7. Drawn to Pain: The Paradoxical Enjoyment of Negative Emotion in ArtIII. ART AND JUDGMENT8. Is It Good-Or Just Familiar?9. Too Easy to Be Good? The Effort Bias10. Identical! What's Wrong with a Perfect Fake?11. "But My Kid Could Have Done That!"IV. WHAT ART DOES - AND DOES NOT - DO FOR US12. Silver Bullets: Does Art Make Us Smarter?13. The Lives of Others: Fiction and Empathy14. Does Making Art Improve Well-Being?V. MAKING ART15. Who Makes Art and Why?VI. CONCLUSION16. How Art WorksNotesReferencesIndex

This shift from philosophical analysis to a robust empirical approach of experiment and observation is the starting point of this book, which is a fascinating account of social scientists' investigations of art through interviews, experiments, data collection, and statistical analysis. Winner touches on a variety of topics ranging from music and emotion, fiction and empathy, the Mozart effect, and perfect fakes and forgeries, to Hockney's theory of optical aids, effort bias, artistic prodigies, deliberate practice and talent, and our curious enjoyment of negative emotions. Recommended for all readers.