Our hypothesis is that Khavarani's painting style, Abstract Romanticism, combines artistic elements that impart positive effect on viewers' psyche. Our data encompass survey of 318 viewers' responses, recorded in six Likert scales. We used Random Group Design to administer and organize the data. Our estimation results, using the Friedman, Mann-Whitney and Kruskal-Wallis tests, produced χ2 values, which confirm our hypothesis with 95-100% confidence. We conclude that Khavarani's paintings impart positive effect on viewers' psyche. In a future study, we'll report that such effect is independent of viewer's age, gender, and their base mood. We invoke Vartanian and Skov (2014): When our subjects viewed Khavarani's paintings, they "maximized the utility of the moment" and "disengaged" from their external world. We recognize that as experiencing meditative joy.

This research is an extension of Amirmostofian, Mozayeni (2016). Our hypothesis is that Khavarani's painting style, Abstract Romanticism, combines artistic elements that impart positive effect on viewers' psyche. Our data encompass 320 surveys. Previously, we reported three nonparametric tests results, and concluded that Khavarani's paintings have positive effects on viewers' psyche. In this research we examine new results for six Multivariate General Linear Model (MGLM) estimations for six Khavarani's groups. With their R2, 0.04-021, and negligible and insignificant coefficients for variables Age, Gender, and the base mood, we propose that Khavarani's paintings influence the subjects' Mood After, the dependent variable in our model. We invoke Vartanian and Skov (2014), and recognize that subjects in the six groups experienced a meditative joy.

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The Net Present Value of Benefits (NPVB) of installing mood uplifting paintings on hospital stay lengths were projected using a Cost-Benefits analysis. Net benefits were estimated from the "effect size" of mood uplift from Abstract Romanticism paintings and the average cost of hospital stay at $2,000/day. We used a nominal Social Discount Rate of 4% and a period of ten years. The analysis was conducted for a sample of hospitals and states. The results showed that installation of Abstract Romanticism paintings would have net benefits and this enhancement to the patient environment would likely result in substantial healthcare savings.