Talk:Psychic distance
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A quotation [1] and references that might be useful to those with the knowledge to extend and connect this page (it is not my area of expertise, but I came on this from another direction):
In 1912, Cambridge's Edward Bullough [2] published a lengthy paper .... In the paper., he set down, in a reasonably complete manner, the concept of [psychical] distance ....
Evidently, he succeeded. Donald Sherburne, for example, says, "Edward Bullough's theory of the Psychical Distance has become a classic doctrine of aesthetic thinking." [3] And James L. Jarrett writes of Bullough's ideas, "Perhaps no more influential idea has been introduced into modern aesthetics than that of psychical distance." [4]
[1] Jerry P. King, The Art of Mathematics (New York: Plenum, 1992) p.196
[2] Edward Bullough, Psychical Distance as a factor in Art and an Aesthetic Principle (British Journal of Psychology: 5 (1912), p87-118)
[3] Donald Sherburne, A Whiteheadean Aesthetic (New York: Yale, 1961) p.108
[4] James L. Jarrett, The Quest for Beauty (Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1957) p.111
Also consider a wikilink to emotional detachment and text that should relate these concepts.
King, later in his book, refers to his preference to use the term aesthetic distance rather than psychical distance, as he feels the latter term has misleading connotations in current usage. I note that aesthetic distance is a wiki redirect, and refers the reader into another usage in theatrical terms.
