Brown Steven
Department of Psychology, Neuroscience & Behaviour, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada.
Front Psychol. 2024 May 30;15:1377485. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2024.1377485. eCollection 2024.
Within cognitive psychology, there are separate experimental fields devoted to the study of creativity, on the one hand, and aesthetics, on the other, with virtually no cross-talk between them. In this article, I propose a means of uniting creativity and aesthetics via a consideration of the mechanisms of cultural evolution. I call this . The basic tenet of the model is that creativity and aesthetics mediate, respectively, the processes of variation (production) and selection (perception or consumption) in evolutionary models of culture. By means of this cycle, creators produce works that they hope will be evaluated positively by consumers, where such appraisals ultimately feed back to influence the subsequent decision-making processes of creators. I discuss the implications of this model for the fields of creativity and aesthetics.
在认知心理学领域，一方面有专门用于研究创造力的独立实验领域，另一方面有研究美学的独立实验领域，它们之间几乎没有相互交流。在本文中，我提出了一种通过考虑文化进化机制将创造力和美学统一起来的方法。我将此称为……该模型的基本宗旨是，在文化进化模型中，创造力和美学分别介导变异（生产）和选择（感知或消费）过程。通过这个循环，创作者创作出他们希望能得到消费者积极评价的作品，而这些评价最终会反馈回来影响创作者随后的决策过程。我讨论了这个模型对创造力和美学领域的启示。
