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Robert Francés
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Daniel Berlyne
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Albert Wellek
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The association was founded on the occasion of the first international
congress in Paris (1965) by Daniel Berlyne (University of Toronto, Canada), Robert Francés
(Université de Paris, France), Carmelo Genovese (Universitá di Bologna, Italy), and
Albert Wellek (Johann - Gutenberg - Universität Mainz, Germany).
Although the association
is not much older than 35 years the field of experimental aesthetics can be traced back to
Gustav Theodor Fechner (1801-1887), the founder not only of psychophysics but of experimental
aesthetics, too. He introduced the experimental method into the investigation of aesthetic
phenomena (cf. his famous work on the golden section hypothesis). Thus, experimental aesthetics
is the second oldest field of scientific psychology!
The starting point of the field was his Vorschule der Aesthetik (1876;
Preschool of Aesthetics) in which he deployed an 'aesthetics from
below', i.e. empirical research as the science of aesthetics.
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