{"id":213390,"date":"2025-05-06T21:08:15","date_gmt":"2025-05-07T02:08:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/05\/contemplating-arts-beauty-found-to-boost-abstract-and-big-picture-thinking"},"modified":"2025-05-06T21:08:15","modified_gmt":"2025-05-07T02:08:15","slug":"contemplating-arts-beauty-found-to-boost-abstract-and-big-picture-thinking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/05\/contemplating-arts-beauty-found-to-boost-abstract-and-big-picture-thinking","title":{"rendered":"Contemplating art\u2019s beauty found to boost abstract and \u2018big picture\u2019 thinking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/contemplating-arts-beauty-found-to-boost-abstract-and-big-picture-thinking2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Since the dawn of philosophy, thinkers from Plato to Kant have considered how beauty affects human experience, and whether it has the power to transform our state of mind.<\/p>\n<p>Now, a new study from the University of Cambridge suggests that stopping to contemplate the beauty of artistic objects in a gallery or museum boosts our ability to think in abstract ways and consider the \u201cbigger picture\u201d when it comes to our lives.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers say the findings offer <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/empirical+evidence\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">empirical evidence<\/a> that engaging with artistic beauty helps us escape the \u201cmental trappings of daily life,\u201d such as current anxieties and to-do lists, and induce \u201cpsychological distancing\u201d: the process of zooming out on your thoughts to gain clarity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since the dawn of philosophy, thinkers from Plato to Kant have considered how beauty affects human experience, and whether it has the power to transform our state of mind. Now, a new study from the University of Cambridge suggests that stopping to contemplate the beauty of artistic objects in a gallery or museum boosts our [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":732,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-213390","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213390","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/732"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=213390"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213390\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=213390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=213390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=213390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}