OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Empirical Studies of the Arts is 1. 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 2022-07-01 to 2026-07-01.)

Article	Citations
Musical Activity as Avoidance-Based Emotion Regulation During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Evidence Across Continents	26
The Aesthetic Emotion Lexicon: A Literature Review of Emotion Words Used by Researchers to Describe Aesthetic Experiences	18
Comparative Designs Reveal Preferences for Human-Generated Rather Than AI-Generated art	15
Examining the Mediating Effects of Cognitive Style on the Relation Between Music Competence and Creativity	12
Wikipedia and Shostakovich Meets Goya: Elaborative Narration and Music Enhance Affect Derived From Art	12
I Love Music! It Harmonizes Me! : Listening to Music Based on Adaptive Function of Music Listening (AFML) and its Influence on Study Engagement in Physical Education – A Cro	11
Detection of Emotions in Artworks Using a Convolutional Neural Network Trained on Non-Artistic Images: A Methodology to Reduce the Cross-Depiction Problem	11
When Labels Matter More: Behavioral and Eye-Tracking Evidence on Aesthetic Judgment of AI-Generated and Human-Created Paintings by Lay Viewers	10
What Elevates Music to a ‘Favorite’? On the Aesthetics of Music from the Perspective of Musical Taste	10
“Listening” to Paintings: Synergetic Effect of a Cross-Modal Experience on Subjective Perception	10
Education, Gender, and Blue-Chip Gallery Representation: The Importance of Educational Prestige in a Male-Dominated Art World	9
Can Narrative Bibliotherapy Reduce Vulnerability to Eating Disorders? Evidence from a Reading Experiment	9
The Gray Cube Effect on Street Art Appreciation: Preliminary Findings on the Role of Art Figurativeness—A Brief Report	8
Emotional Regulation in Dance and Its Role in Emotional Expression: Evidence from Dance Majors	7
Flourishing Aims of Art Museums: A Survey of Art Museum Professionals	7
Conscious vs. Preconscious Affective Priming Modulate Beauty Ratings and Gaze Patterns in AI-Generated Paintings	6
Immersed in Art: The Impact of Affinity for Technology Interaction and Hedonic Motivation on Aesthetic Experiences in Virtual Reality	6
The Impact of Pseudo-Profound Bullshit Titles on Memory for Artist-Created and AI-Generated Art	6
Ethos Theory of Music: Toward An Empirical Confirmation Through Moral Foundations Theory	6
AI Performer Bias: Listeners Like Music Less When They Think it was Performed by an AI	5
The Influence of News, Expert and Public Opinion on Painting Prices: An Empirical Analysis	5
Preference for Harmony: A Preference for Structural Simplicity, Familiarity, or Both?	5
Do Prestige and Animacy Matter to Art Experts? Exploring Social Learning, Signaling, Perceptual, and Cognitive Explanations	5
Does the Source Matter? An Experimental Study on User Perception of AI-Generated Versus Human-Authored Curatorial Narratives	4
Shades of Grey: Quantifying a Database of 18 Aesthetic Moods in Classical Chinese Poetry	4

Can Fashion Aesthetics be Studied Empirically? The Preference Structure of Everyday Clothing Choices	4
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	4
The Artistic Characteristics of Modern Calligraphy After 1985: An Exploration Based on Grounded Theory	4
Artists and Mate Preferences: The Effects of Being a Painter and Intellectuality	4
The Effects of Psychotic Tendencies on Aesthetic Preferences of Paintings	4
Integrating Meaning and Stylistic Coherence: A Factor–Analytic Study of Artistic Expression in Student Visual Works	4
Psychological Coaching for Performing Artists: Perceptions of and Reflections on Finding Ways to Manage Performance Anxiety	4
Effects of an Art Intervention Program Using Ambiguous Image-Text Interactions on Creative Thinking	3
Audiovisual Associations in Saint-Saëns’ Carnival of the Animals : A Cross-Cultural Investigation on the Role of Timbre	3
Perceived Intense Emotions and Their Influence on Cultural Identification Processes: A Mixed-Method Study of a Classical Music Festival	3
Narrative Imaginings Mediate the Relationship Between Perceived Emotions and Social Connectedness During Music Listening: Evidence from a Study with Western and Chinese Instrumental Excerpts	3
The Relation Between DJs Behavior and Their Audience's Positive Affect and Perception of the Show. A Field Study in Electronic Dance Music Clubs	3
Exploring Film as Popular Art Promoting Scarred Villain Trope	3
Do American Critic Reviews Affect Film Consumption Abroad? The Brazilian Case	3
The Influence of Demographic Factors on Word Usage in Texts Written About Artworks	3
Understanding Consumer Preferences for Hedonic Furniture: A Push-Pull-Mooring Analysis	3
The Effect of Music Classes Conducted in Northern Cypriot Schools with the Kodály Approach on the Musical Development of Students: A Pilot Study	3
Examining Facebook Groups Engaging in Reading Experiences: The Interactive Therapeutic Process Perspective	3
Effect of Pictorial Depth Cues on Illusory Spatial Depth of the Lin Family Garden	3
Exposure to Fernando Botero’s Art Is Associated with Lower Implicit Bias Against People with Obesity	3
Designing for Aesthetic Awe: Self-Transcendent Experiences with Generative AI and Augmented Self-Reflection	3
Comparison of Audiovisual Components of Dance in Novices and Experts’ Aesthetic Interest Perceptions	3
Can Virtual Art Touch Your Heart?—The Impact of Virtual Reality Art on Affect Considering Individual Characteristics and Aesthetic Experiences	3
Three Forms of Tears at Art Museums: A Phenomenological Study of Viewers’ Tear-Shedding Experiences Through Blog Narratives	3
Artists on Climate Change: Their Intended Impact and Audiences	3
On the Complexity of Literary and Popular Fiction	2
The Effects of Titles on the Aesthetic Evaluation of Japanese Poetry	2
The Poet is Speaking: A Case for Studying the Role of Auditory Imagery in Poetry-Elicited Emotions	2
A Network Analysis of the Association Between Big Five Personality Traits and Sensitivity to Music Rewards	2
Everyday Life vs Art: Effects of Framing on the Mode of Object Interpretation	2
Bullshit (Sometimes) Makes the Art (Slightly) More Attractive: A Field Study in Gallery-Goers	2
The Impact of Cross-Sensory Interaction Between Emotional Images and Musical Modes on the Aesthetic Evaluation of Neutral Stimuli	2
Perceptual and Cognitive Skills Related to Art Knowledge and Expertise	2
Spanish Validation of the Kaufman Domains of Creativity Scale (K-DOCS) and its Link with Attitude Towards Artistic Expression and Aesthetic Experience	2
Dominance of Audio Features in Audience Emotion: A Multimodal EEG Analysis of Music Videos	2
Designing Emotions as Mediators of Attitude Change from Socially-Focused Art Exhibitions: Two Studies of Matched Artist/Curator Intentions and Viewer Response on the Refugee Crisis and Climate Awarene	2
The Linguistic Structure of Haiku/Senryu and Its Evolution Over Time	2
Evaluating the Structure of the Aesthetic Responsiveness Assessment (AReA) with Bootstrap Exploratory Graph Analysis	2
The Role of Virtual Reality (VR) in Managing Performance Anxiety for Pianists	2
Unbound Dialogue: Exploring the Perception of AI-Mediated Art	2
Check-All-That-Apply and Storyworld Possible Selves: What Consumer Research Methods can do for the Study of Narrative Engagement	2
A Phenomenological Microgenesis of Art Experience: A Qualitative Study of Zero Mass by Eric Orr	2
What Makes People Like Dreamcore Aesthetics? the Role of Trait Nostalgia in Preferences for Dreamcore Imagery	2
Effects of Prior Knowledge and Peer Assessment on the Quality of English as a Foreign Language Poetry Writing	2
An Aesthetic Emotion Model for Chinese Ming-Style Furniture Patterns	2
Gaze Preferences to Male Contrapposto and Non-Contrapposto Postures	1
Exploring Smartwatch Aesthetic Preferences Through the Unified Model of Aesthetics	1
Emotion, Language and Aesthetic Expression: On Motherwell and His Art	1
Making Versus Viewing Art: Effects on Affect, Enjoyment, and Flow	1
Music Preferences and Their Associations With Uses of Music and Personality Factors and Facets	1

Self-Cultivation to Academic Success: Effects of Stress and Psychological Characteristics among Performing and Non-Performing-Arts Students	1
Categorization and Aesthetic Preference: Examining Typicality and Novelty Across Rich and Poor Categories	1
Universal, Cultural, or Individual? An Intercultural Assessment of Shared Proportions of Private Taste in Aesthetic Appreciation	1
“Awful Skinny Boys” – Male Musical Theatre Performers’ Experiences of Body Image: A Reflexive Thematic Analysis	1
Creators Matter. Perception and Pricing of Art Made by Human, Cyborgs and Humanoid Robots	1
Does Art Make a Difference? – An Experimental Investigation of Differential Perception and Processing in the Reception of Artistic and Non-Artistic Apocalyptic Climate Images	1
The Drawing Effect: Does Drawing Really Enhance Recall Memory?	1
Emotional Responses to Music: The Essential Inclusion of Emotion Adaptability and Situational Context	1
Remembrances of Paul Locher	1
Visiting Virtual Museums: How Personality and Art-Related Individual Differences Shape Visitor Behavior in an Online Virtual Gallery	1
Unpacking the Antecedents of Word of Mouth and Electronic Word of Mouth in the Opera Sector: A Multimethodological Study Based on PLS and NCA	1
The Impact of Urban art on Wellbeing: A Laboratory Study	1
Guiding the Eye and Mind: The Interaction of Semantic Cues and Narrative Structure in the Aesthetic Appreciation of Dunhuang Murals	1
A Cross-Cultural Comparison of Aesthetic Preferences for Neatly Organized Compositions: Native Chinese- Versus Native Dutch-Speaking Samples	1
First- or Third-Person: The Impact of Narrative Voice and Reception Mode on Empathy, Identification, and Parasocial Interaction in Literary Engagement	1
Multisensory Imagery Enhances the Aesthetic Evaluation of Paintings: A Virtual Reality Study	1
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	1
What Can Happen When We Look at Art?: An Exploratory Network Model and Latent Profile Analysis of Affective/Cognitive Aspects Underlying Shared, Supraord	1
Psychological Determinants of Aesthetic and Affective Preferences for Nature and Urban Scenes: Anxiety, Nature Exposure, and Mental Imagery	1
Attitudes and Abracadabra: How Do Skeptical, Superstitious, and Paranormal Beliefs Predict Enjoying Performance Magic?	1
How Context and Painting Attributes Affect Aesthetic Judgment Across Expertise	1