ABSTRACT
This chapter reviews a framework of seven vantage points for Psychology of Aesthetics. Neuroaesthetics, in its correlational approach, constructs transformational relations between irreducibly and individually subjective mental processes and states, and their objectively, externally observed neural underpinnings. The Psychology of Aesthetics is the subdiscipline of psychology that is concerned with the mental processing of aesthetics. The perspective of the body embraces the heart of neuroaesthetics. Aesthetic processing is examined by taking somatic aspects into consideration. Human aesthetic processing relates to a large number of different entities. These realms differ vastly in regard to their characteristics, which in turn leads to differences in aesthetic processing. The combination of a given time and a given place—the situation—affects aesthetic processing. The perspectives of content, person and situation, taken together, also provide full coverage of the topic of aesthetic processing. Symmetry was employed because aesthetic judgments are known to be often guided by criteria of symmetry.
