The interplay of biomechanical movement patterns and aesthetic context on explicit and implicit altruistic behavior in pupils
Abstract
The current study delved into how aesthetic context intertwined with cell molecular biomechanics to influence pupils’ explicit and implicit altruistic behaviour. In Experiment 1, when looking at the effects of different aesthetic contexts on pupils’ explicit altruistic behaviour, it was found that explicit aesthetic context had a notable priming effect on implicit altruistic behaviour. From a cell molecular biomechanics perspective, perhaps in an explicit aesthetic context, specific cell surface receptors respond to external stimuli related to beauty, triggering intracellular molecular signaling pathways that eventually influence implicit altruistic responses more than in implicit or non-aesthetic contexts where such coordinated signaling is less pronounced. Experiment 2 on implicit altruistic behaviour again detected the implicit association test (IAT) effect. Implicit aesthetic contexts showed a significant priming effect. Here, at the cell molecular level, the microenvironment within cells might be altered by the implicit aesthetic perception, like changes in cytoplasmic viscosity or the movement of organelles affected by aesthetic feelings, which then play a key role in shaping implicit altruistic behaviour compared to explicit and non-aesthetic contexts. Overall, it’s clear that explicit and implicit altruistic behaviours rely on distinct processing mechanisms involving both aesthetic context and cell molecular biomechanics. The two aesthetic contexts have selective impacts via different path mechanisms related to these cellular processes.
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