@article{ref1,
title="The enjoyment of negative emotions in the experience of magic",
journal="Behavioral and brain sciences",
year="2017",
author="Leddington, Jason",
volume="40",
number="",
pages="e369-e369",
abstract="Theatrical magic is designed to elicit negative emotions such as feelings of vulnerability, loss of control, apprehension, fear, confusion, and bafflement. This commentary suggests that the Distancing-Embracing model can help us understand how the experience of magic can be aesthetically pleasurable, not despite, rather thanks to, some of the strong negative emotions it provokes.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0140-525X",
doi="10.1017/S0140525X17001777",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0140525X17001777"
}