Edmund Burke’s scientific contributions

... Given the differences among diverse categories, the results can be well understood as dominance often being associated with the beautiful or sublime features of nature-related landscapes. Both early works of philosophical aesthetics (see Burke, 1990) and modern empirical aesthetic papers (see Hur et al., 2020Hur et al., , 2022 have extensive discussion on beauty and sublimity (see Hur et al., 2020Hur et al., , 2022. We won't delve into the distinctions between sublimity and beauty here, but it is clear that-as the results suggested-the sky and mountains are generally considered as sublime with a feeling of being dominated, thus perceivers usually have submissive feelings in the appreciation of these two landscapes. ...

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How do different categories of nature-related landscape images shape emotional experience?