reactions." It is less "intrusive." It does not "fall in with," nor
does it strikingly oppose, the necessary reaction to the forms. Its
influence upon the time-development of feeling-tones for accompanying
stimuli is consequently small. This is not the case with the blue.
The explanation, however, does not here differ in principle. This
"volatile, unstable, indecisive, thin, or shallow" feeling, can be more
easily influenced by the definite and decisive processes characteristic
of the forms. It, indeed, needs something to determine its character,
or coördinate its general reaction. Hence in both the above
combinations the development period of the new feeling-tone for blue
is shortened. The feeling reaches its maximum in either combination
more quickly than when it occurs alone. As one should expect, fusion
or mutual reënforcement quickens coördinated reaction; and partially
independent coexistence, except where the contrast is sharp, serves as
a condition for the lengthening of the latent period of feelings.
PART IV
It is beyond the province of this paper to report the accounts the
subjects have attempted to give of the complex feelings aroused by the
pictures of statues. The primary and limited purpose is to try to trace
out the influences of the feelings before dealt with for colors when
these are also present in some way related to the now complex æsthetic
states. The _Einfühlung_, often reported for the simple forms, is here
much more easily detected, if the statues arouse agreeable feelings.
They "work themselves into the statue," or assume the position, or
the facial expression if this is prominent, or feel very strongly in
their own body what seems to be the most prominent element in the
feeling portrayed by the figure. Few subjects liked all the statues.
Incipient if not actual tendencies to motion of some sort, with the
sensory counterparts to these situations called for when the subject
feels that he is in the "proper attitude" to get most feeling from the
presentations, chiefly constitute what was in different ways reported.
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