Fig. 4

Relationship between bodily sensations, emotions, aesthetics, and personality traits by participant. The vertical axis represents the mean scores for bodily sensation, valence, arousal, and beauty evaluation for each participant, and the horizontal axis represents the scores for the individual questionnaires. Spearman’s rank correlation coefficient was used to analyze these relationships. Correlation tests were conducted for each item in the table to evaluate the significance of correlations between indicators. FDR correction was applied for multiple comparisons, and correlation coefficients were annotated with asterisks based on FDR-adjusted q-values (q < 0.001: ***, q < 0.01: **, q < 0.05: *). Strong correlations (q < 0.001) were observed between aesthetic sensitivity and both the MES (a measure of empathy) and the EBS (a measure of aesthetic sensitivity), particularly in relation to aesthetic evaluation.