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Papers

(The median citation count of Empirical Studies of the Arts is 0. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-03-01 to 2025-03-01.)

Article	Citations
What Can Happen When We Look at Art?: An Exploratory Network Model and Latent Profile Analysis of Affective/Cognitive Aspects Underlying Shared, Supraordinate Responses to Museum Visual Art	16
Aesthetic Dispositions, Aesthetic Engagement, and Meaning in Life	13
Drawing and Memory: What is the Content of Children’s Drawings and How Does it Differ From Their Verbal Reports?	11
A Trade-off Between the Artistic Aesthetic Value and Market Value of Paintings With Naïve and Childlike Interest Complex	8
Aesthetic Disposition, Educational Capital, Personality Trait Openness, and Sex: A Study of French High-School Students	7
Do Prestige and Animacy Matter to Art Experts? Exploring Social Learning, Signaling, Perceptual, and Cognitive Explanations	7
Preference for Harmony: A Preference for Structural Simplicity, Familiarity, or Both?	6
Musical Activity as Avoidance-Based Emotion Regulation During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Evidence Across Continents	6
Remembrances of Paul Locher	6
Effects of Image Features and Personal Traits on Within- and Across-Participant Visual Aesthetic Consistencies	6
Students’ Personal Experience vis-à-vis Personal Interest Towards Philippine Traditional Dances with Respect to Dance Steps, Music, Costume, and Dance History for Preservation Endeavors: Does it Matte	5
Evaluating the Temporal Effect of Image Features on Dynamic Aesthetic Experience of Generative art	5
Comparison of Audiovisual Components of Dance in Novices and Experts’ Aesthetic Interest Perceptions	4
Effects of Theme, Form, and Language on Poetry Reading: Evidence From Chinese ESL Learners	4
How Do We Understand Artworks? Exploring the Role of Artwork Inherent Features in Art Processing	3
The Relations of Empathy and Gender to Aesthetic Response and Aesthetic Inference of Visual Artworks	3
Effects of Emotional Valence, Training Experience, and Audiovisual Dual Modality on Emotion in Dance	3
The Aesthetic Emotion Lexicon: A Literature Review of Emotion Words Used by Researchers to Describe Aesthetic Experiences	3
The Important Role of Aesthetic Education in Universities: An Empirical Research of the Effects of Aesthetic Experience on the Emotions of University Students in China	2
The Drawing Effect: Does Drawing Really Enhance Recall Memory?	2
The Effects of Psychotic Tendencies on Aesthetic Preferences of Paintings	2
Oscars won by the Best Picture of the Year: An Empirical Analysis Across the History of Academy Awards (1929–2023)	2
Attitudes and Abracadabra: How Do Skeptical, Superstitious, and Paranormal Beliefs Predict Enjoying Performance Magic?	2
The “Past” is Sweet: An Investigation into the Aesthetic and Affective Experience of Paintings	2
Interdisciplinary Art Learning Through Artistic Digital Game-Based Learning (DGBL): Evaluating Learning Outcomes and Processes Among Science and Engineering Students	2

Unpacking the Antecedents of Word of Mouth and Electronic Word of Mouth in the Opera Sector: A Multimethodological Study Based on PLS and NCA	2
Emotional Responses to Music: The Essential Inclusion of Emotion Adaptability and Situational Context	2
Making Versus Viewing Art: Effects on Affect, Enjoyment, and Flow	2
Symmetry and Meaningfulness in the Spotlight of Expertness	2
An Evaluation of Reputation Using Online Auction Data for a Group of American Watercolorists	2
Music Preferences and Their Associations With Uses of Music and Personality Factors and Facets	2
Shades of Grey: Quantifying a Database of 18 Aesthetic Moods in Classical Chinese Poetry	2
Creators Matter. Perception and Pricing of Art Made by Human, Cyborgs and Humanoid Robots	1
An Aesthetic Model for Popular Illustration	1
Detection of Emotions in Artworks Using a Convolutional Neural Network Trained on Non-Artistic Images: A Methodology to Reduce the Cross-Depiction Problem	1
Visiting Virtual Museums: How Personality and Art-Related Individual Differences Shape Visitor Behavior in an Online Virtual Gallery	1
Wikipedia and Shostakovich Meets Goya: Elaborative Narration and Music Enhance Affect Derived From Art	1
Can Virtual Art Touch Your Heart?—The Impact of Virtual Reality Art on Affect Considering Individual Characteristics and Aesthetic Experiences	1
Humans Prefer to See and Imagine Drawing Curved Objects	1
How Context and Painting Attributes Affect Aesthetic Judgment Across Expertise	1
Examining the Ability of Digital Visual Art Engagement to Cultivate Empathy and Social Connection	1
Can Fashion Aesthetics be Studied Empirically? The Preference Structure of Everyday Clothing Choices	1
The Effect of Music Classes Conducted in Northern Cypriot Schools with the Kodály Approach on the Musical Development of Students: A Pilot Study	1
Psychological Coaching for Performing Artists: Perceptions of and Reflections on Finding Ways to Manage Performance Anxiety	1
Editorial	1
Clustering the Raagas of Sankari Sangeet—A Computational Approach	1
Examining Facebook Groups Engaging in Reading Experiences: The Interactive Therapeutic Process Perspective	1
Generative Models for the Psychology of Art and Aesthetics	1
Attractive People Make Better Music? How Gender and Perceived Attractiveness Affect the Evaluation of Electronic Dance Music Artists	1
Quantitative Analysis of Visual Representation of Sign Elements in COVID-19 Context	0
Can Narrative Bibliotherapy Reduce Vulnerability to Eating Disorders? Evidence from a Reading Experiment	0
Bullshit (Sometimes) Makes the Art (Slightly) More Attractive: A Field Study in Gallery-Goers	0
A Phenomenological Microgenesis of Art Experience: A Qualitative Study of Zero Mass by Eric Orr	0
Comparing the Perception of In-Person and Digital Monitor Viewing of Paintings	0
On the Complexity of Literary and Popular Fiction	0
An Aesthetic Emotion Model for Chinese Ming-Style Furniture Patterns	0
The Impact of Urban art on Wellbeing: A Laboratory Study	0
Effects of an Art Intervention Program Using Ambiguous Image-Text Interactions on Creative Thinking	0
Education, Gender, and Blue-Chip Gallery Representation: The Importance of Educational Prestige in a Male-Dominated Art World	0
AI Performer Bias: Listeners Like Music Less When They Think it was Performed by an AI	0
Probing the Extremes of Aesthetics: The Role of Typicality and Novelty in the Aesthetic Preference of Industrial Boilers	0
The Death of the Author: The Case of art Market	0
The Artistic Characteristics of Modern Calligraphy After 1985: An Exploration Based on Grounded Theory	0
Revolutionizing Dance Education Through the Assessment of Online Videoconferencing to Increase Participation in Dance: Learning Philippine Traditional Dances	0
Effects of Prior Knowledge and Peer Assessment on the Quality of English as a Foreign Language Poetry Writing	0
Emotion, Language and Aesthetic Expression: On Motherwell and His Art	0
Is There a Timeless Truth for Good Arrangement of Paintings in Art Galleries and Museums? An Experimental Investigation of the Barnes Collection	0
Do American Critic Reviews Affect Film Consumption Abroad? The Brazilian Case	0
“Listening” to Paintings: Synergetic Effect of a Cross-Modal Experience on Subjective Perception	0
The Cumulative Model for Empirical Research in the Arts: A Semiotic Answer to the Challenge of Interdisciplinarity	0
Can the Arts Cure Pandemic Hearts? - Cultural Activity During the COVID-19 Pandemic and its Consequences for Psychological Well-Being	0
Effect of Pictorial Depth Cues on Illusory Spatial Depth of the Lin Family Garden	0
Ethos Theory of Music: Toward An Empirical Confirmation Through Moral Foundations Theory	0
What Makes People High in Openness to Experience Happy? The Mediating Effect of Arts Engagement	0
Three Forms of Tears at Art Museums: A Phenomenological Study of Viewers’ Tear-Shedding Experiences Through Blog Narratives	0

Global Saccadic Eye Movements Characterise Artists’ Visual Attention While Drawing	0
Some Effects of Sex and Culture on Creativity, No Effect of Incubation	0
“Awful Skinny Boys” – Male Musical Theatre Performers’ Experiences of Body Image: A Reflexive Thematic Analysis	0
Exploring Smartwatch Aesthetic Preferences Through the Unified Model of Aesthetics	0
Narrativity and Literariness Affect the Aesthetic Attitude in Text Reading	0
Literary and Aesthetic Competencies in Literature Course: Whether Innovative Information Technologies Hinder Their Growth?	0
Artist Names as Human Brands: Brand Determinants, Creation and co-Creation Mechanisms	0
Understanding Musical Beauty	0
The Linguistic Structure of Haiku/Senryu and Its Evolution Over Time	0
Artists and Mate Preferences: The Effects of Being a Painter and Intellectuality	0
Experiences of Ugliness in Nature and Urban environments	0
Exploring the Evidence-Based Driving Factors of Innovation in Arts and Cultural Organizations	0
Everyday Life vs Art: Effects of Framing on the Mode of Object Interpretation	0
A Cross-Cultural Comparison of Aesthetic Preferences for Neatly Organized Compositions: Native Chinese- Versus Native Dutch-Speaking Samples	0
Why Do People Visit Art Museums? Examining Visitor Motivations and Visit Outcomes	0
The Cultural-Match Effect on Art Appreciation in Adolescents	0
Artists on Climate Change: Their Intended Impact and Audiences	0
Curiosity Emerging From the Perception of Change in Music	0
The Impact of Pseudo-Profound Bullshit Titles on Memory for Artist-Created and AI-Generated Art	0
Does Dance Expertise Enhance Sensitivity? A Comparative Study	0
Perceived Intense Emotions and Their Influence on Cultural Identification Processes: A Mixed-Method Study of a Classical Music Festival	0
The Twofold Role of Subjective Fluency in Displeasing but Preferable Visual Artworks: Self-Report and Eye-Tracking analysis	0
Evaluating the Structure of the Aesthetic Responsiveness Assessment (AReA) with Bootstrap Exploratory Graph Analysis	0
Effects of Conceptual Titles on the Aesthetic Appreciation of Artistic Photographs	0
Immersed in Art: The Impact of Affinity for Technology Interaction and Hedonic Motivation on Aesthetic Experiences in Virtual Reality	0
Symmetry as an Inter-Cultural Feature Constituting Beauty: Implicit and Explicit Beauty Evaluation of Visual Symmetry in Japan	0
The Influence of Demographic Factors on Word Usage in Texts Written About Artworks	0
Gaze Preferences to Male Contrapposto and Non-Contrapposto Postures	0
Flourishing Aims of Art Museums: A Survey of Art Museum Professionals	0
Examining the Mediating Effects of Cognitive Style on the Relation Between Music Competence and Creativity	0
The Effects of Titles on the Aesthetic Evaluation of Japanese Poetry	0
How Do We Move in Front of Art? How Does This Relate to Art Experience? Linking Movement, Eye Tracking, Emotion, and Evaluations in a Gallery-Like Setting	0
Cultural Engagement and Subjective Well-Being in the Cluj Metropolitan Area: An Exploration in Cultural Commoning and Collaborative Development	0
Audiovisual Associations in Saint-Saëns’ Carnival of the Animals: A Cross-Cultural Investigation on the Role of Timbre	0
The Curation of Music Discovery: The Presentation of Unfamiliar Classical Music on Radio, Digital Playlists and Concert Programmes	0
Aesthetic Production in Clay Molding: Mental and Dynamically Embodied Action Mediate Between Formal and Material Aspects of Experience	0
Art and Cooking Therapies on Mental Health and Well-Being: A Narrative Review	0
Dance Across Cultures: Joint Action Aesthetics in Japan and the UK	0