Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Bianchi, Marina

Titel

The Magic of Storytelling: How Curiosity and Aesthetic Preferences Work

Ist Teil von

• Economics. The open-access, open-assessment e-journal, 2014-12, Vol.8 (44), p.1

Ort / Verlag

Berlin: Walter de Gruyter GmbH

Erscheinungsjahr

2014

Quelle

EZB-FREE-00999 freely available EZB journals

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• People spend an enormous amount of time in their lives following stories: telling and listening to them; reading them; watching them on television or in films or on stage. Despite their recurrent similarity and even predictability, they continue to enjoy them. The paper brings to bear on two different strands of current literature in experimental psychology: the literature on aesthetic preferences, and the literature on curiosity and interest. The paper discusses how, in the case of storytelling in particular, though also of creative activities in general, there are two types of curiosity at work: explorative curiosity and specific curiosity, corresponding to focused exploration and aimed at solving problems for which the accuracy and relevance of information is of importance. The broader aim is to analyze the "behavior" of individual preferences in the consumption not only of art, the usual focus in discussion of aesthetic preferences, but also of all those goods and activities that can be called creative.