Publications by authors named "Anna Bruns"
Past research shows that emotion affects beauty judgments of images and music. Because it is widely supposed that our faculty of empathy facilitates aesthetic experience, we wondered whether individual levels of empathy modulate the effect of emotion on beauty. 164 participants rated the perceived beauty, happiness, and sadness of 12 art images, 12 nature photographs, and 24 songs.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFWhat role do the emotions of subject and object play in judging the beauty of images and music? Eighty-one participants rated perceived beauty, liking, perceived happiness, and perceived sadness of 24 songs, 12 art images, and 12 nature photographs. Stimulus presentation was brief (2 seconds) or prolonged (20 seconds). The stimuli were presented in two blocks, and participants took the Positive and Negative Affect Score (PANAS) mood questionnaire before and after each block.
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- - The study focused on the incidence and impact of neonatal herpes simplex virus (HSV) infections in Germany over a 2-year period, involving nationwide surveillance across pediatric departments.
- - Out of 37 cases analyzed, most infants showed mild symptoms and were discharged without complications, while a few experienced severe neurological issues, with some requiring organ transplant or resulting in death.
- - The findings indicate that neonatal HSV infections are uncommon, with a low incidence rate, but postnatal transmission, particularly from orofacial HSV in family members, is a significant factor in these infections.