Mario Gollwitzer & Marlene Altenmüller - How Art Probes Mind

Free access to Closer to Truth's library of 5,000 videos: http://bit.ly/376lkKN Can understanding how the mind appreciates art give insight into how the mind works? What is it about art that it can reveal the process of creativity and imagination and the generation of emotions and feelings of transcendence? How does art influence cognitive and affective brain mechanisms? Watch more interviews on mind, art, and transcendence: https://bit.ly/3L7Fs6d Support the show with Closer To Truth merchandise: https://bit.ly/3P2ogje Mario Gollwitzer is a professor of Social Psychology at the Department of Psychology at Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich. Marlene Altenmüller is a postdoctoral researcher with the Social Psychology group at The Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich. Register for free at CTT.com for subscriber-only exclusives: https://bit.ly/3He94Ns Closer To Truth, hosted by Robert Lawrence Kuhn and directed by Peter Getzels, presents the world’s greatest thinkers exploring humanity’s deepest questions. Discover fundamental issues of existence. Engage new and diverse ways of thinking. Appreciate intense debates. Share your own opinions. Seek your own answers.