Absorption and Trance-Inductive Poetry

Joseph Glicksohn; Reuven Tsur; Chanita Goodblatt

doi:10.2190/E4A8-89A9-DQ54-5RYC

Absorption and Trance-Inductive Poetry

Joseph Glicksohn, Reuven Tsur, Chanita Goodblatt

Department of Foreign Literatures & Linguistics

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Abstract

Examined the aesthetic qualities of trance-inductive (TI) poetry. 41 (university student) readers, classified as low- and high-absorption, read a TI poem characterized by high metric regularity and rated the poem on 7 7-point evaluative scales. While low-absorption Ss found the poem to be boring and unpleasant, high-absorption Ss found the poem to be interesting and pleasant. Low-absorption Ss responded to a flat sequence of monotonously rhyming lines, finding the text to be boring, while the high-absorption Ss detected hierarchic structure in the poetic text, finding the latter to be pleasing. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved)

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	115-122
Number of pages	8
Journal	Empirical Studies of the Arts
Volume	9
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.2190/E4A8-89A9-DQ54-5RYC
State	Published - Jun 1991

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Aesthetics
Poetry

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