The aesthetic emotion Lexicon: A literature review of emotion words used by researchers to describe aesthetic experiences

E Schubert - Empirical Studies of the Arts, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
The emotions that can be considered members of the set of Aesthetic Emotions (AEs) is
controversial. The present study investigated the terms used by researchers in peer …

Evoking and measuring identification with narrative characters–A linguistic cues framework

K Van Krieken, H Hoeken, J Sanders - Frontiers in psychology, 2017 - frontiersin.org
Current research on identification with narrative characters poses two problems. First,
although identification is seen as a dynamic process of which the intensity varies during …

The fictive brain: neurocognitive correlates of engagement in literature

AM Jacobs, RM Willems - Review of General Psychology, 2018 - journals.sagepub.com
Fiction is vital to our being. Many people enjoy engaging with fiction every day. Here we
focus on literary reading as 1 instance of fiction consumption from a cognitive neuroscience …

Sentiment analysis for words and fiction characters from the perspective of computational (neuro-) poetics

AM Jacobs - Frontiers in Robotics and AI, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Two computational studies provide different sentiment analyses for text segments
(eg,“fearful” passages) and figures (eg,“Voldemort”) from the Harry Potter books …

Why'piss' is ruder than'pee'? The role of sound in affective meaning making

A Aryani, M Conrad, D Schmidtke, A Jacobs - PloS one, 2018 - journals.plos.org
Most language users agree that some words sound harsh (eg grotesque) whereas others
sound soft and pleasing (eg lagoon). While this prominent feature of human language has …

Sentiment analysis of children and youth literature: is there a pollyanna effect?

AM Jacobs, B Herrmann, G Lauer, J Lüdtke… - Frontiers in …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
If the words of natural human language possess a universal positivity bias, as assumed by
famous Pollyanna hypothesis and computationally confirmed for large text corpora in …

The gutenberg english poetry corpus: exemplary quantitative narrative analyses

AM Jacobs - Frontiers in Digital Humanities, 2018 - frontiersin.org
This paper describes a corpus of about 3,000 English literary texts with about 250 million
words extracted from the Gutenberg project that span a range of genres from both fiction and …

Quantifying the beauty of words: a neurocognitive poetics perspective

AM Jacobs - Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 2017 - frontiersin.org
In this paper I would like to pave the ground for future studies in Computational Stylistics and
(Neuro-) Cognitive Poetics by describing procedures for predicting the subjective beauty of …

What makes a metaphor literary? Answers from two computational studies

AM Jacobs, A Kinder - Metaphor and Symbol, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
In this article we investigate structural differences between “literary” metaphors created by
renowned poets and “nonliterary” ones imagined by non-professional authors from Katz et …

“The Brain Is the Prisoner of Thought”: A Machine-Learning Assisted Quantitative Narrative Analysis of Literary Metaphors for Use in Neurocognitive Poetics

AM Jacobs, A Kinder - Metaphor and Symbol, 2017 - Taylor & Francis
Two main goals of the emerging field of neurocognitive poetics are (a) the use of more
natural and ecologically valid stimuli, tasks and contexts and (b) providing methods and …