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Direct linkGervasio, Amy Herstein – Research in Dance Education, 2012
This paper applies contemporary principles in cognitive and social psychology to understand how Western ballet and modern dance is imbued with emotional and narrative meaning by an audience. These include nine Gestalt concepts of visual form perception as well as cognitive heuristics of representativeness and availability in concept formation and…
Descriptors: Dance, Social Psychology, Cognitive Psychology, Audience Response
