Advances in Intrinsic Motivation and Aesthetics

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xii

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2. “My First Interest Is Interest”

   • John J. Furedy, Christine P. Furedy

   Pages 1-17

3. Berlyne’s Theory

   • K. B. Madsen

   Pages 19-38

4. The Quest for the Inverted U

   • Edward L. Walker

   Pages 39-70

5. Environmental Restriction and “Stimulus Hunger”

   • Peter Suedfeld

   Pages 71-86

6. Explorations of Exploration

   • Jum C. Nunnally

   Pages 87-129

7. Arousal, Intrinsic Motivation, and Personality

   • H. J. Eysenck

   Pages 131-148

8. Subjective Uncertainty and Task Preference

   • Klaus Schneider, Heinz Heckhausen

   Pages 149-167

9. Experiential Roots of Intention, Initiative, and Trust

   • J. McVicker Hunt

   Pages 169-202

10. A Theory Deriving Preference from Conflict

    • Frank Auld

    Pages 203-224

11. Play

    • Hy I. Day

    Pages 225-250

12. Toward A Taxonomy and Conceptual Model of Play

    • Corinne Hutt

    Pages 251-298

13. Intrinsic Motivation and Health

    • Salvatore R. Maddi, Suzanne C. Kobasa

    Pages 299-321

14. The Psychological Aesthetics of Narrative Forms

    • Christy Moynihan, Albert Mehrabian

    Pages 323-340

15. A Conceptual Analysis of Exploratory Behavior

    • Joachim F. Wohlwill

    Pages 341-364

16. Ambiguity, Complexity, and Preference for Works of Art

    • Richard M. Nicki

    Pages 365-383

17. About the Role of Visual Exploration in Aesthetics

    • François Molnar

    Pages 385-413

18. Bases of Transcultural Agreement in Response to Art

    • Irvin L. Child

    Pages 415-432

19. Information Theory and Melodic Perception

    • J. B. Crozier

    Pages 433-461

20. Toward an Integrated Theory of Aesthetic Perception in the Visual Arts

    • Gerald C. Cupchik, R. Walter Heinrichs

    Pages 463-485

It has been both a pleasure and an honor to edit this book. The pleasure has been in interacting with the gifted authors who wrote the chapters for this volume and the honor has been in knowing that the book is dedicated to a great man and a brilliant psychologist-Daniel E. Berlyne. All the contributors to this book have been touched, at some time, by Dan Berlyne and his ideas. Whether as his teachers, his colleages, his peers, his students, or his friends and arguing partners, we have all felt his presence and been improved by it. The list of contributors to this volume is large and could have been much larger, for a number of people, in fact, contacted me for the oppor­ tunity to contribute when they heard about the purpose of this book. It is also an international list, for Dan Berlyne's contacts were international. The diversity in content and style is also intentional. The authors were invited to contribute an original paper in the field in which they are presently engaged, whether theoretical or a report of empirical work, and to indicate the contribution that Dan Berlyne had made to their work. As the reader will note, contributions range from personal and contact in a laboratory to ideas that elicit controversy, argument, and intensive re­ search. Daniel Ellis Berlyne was born in Selford, England, a suburb of Man­ chester,in 1924, and died in Toronto, Canada, on November 2, 1976.

• aesthetics
• intention
• style
• time
• will

• York University, Downsview, Canada

  Hy I. Day

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