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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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Musical Activity as Avoidance-Based Emotion Regulation During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Evidence Across Continents	25
The Aesthetic Emotion Lexicon: A Literature Review of Emotion Words Used by Researchers to Describe Aesthetic Experiences	17
Comparative Designs Reveal Preferences for Human-Generated Rather Than AI-Generated art	14
Wikipedia and Shostakovich Meets Goya: Elaborative Narration and Music Enhance Affect Derived From Art	13
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
Examining the Mediating Effects of Cognitive Style on the Relation Between Music Competence and Creativity	11
When Labels Matter More: Behavioral and Eye-Tracking Evidence on Aesthetic Judgment of AI-Generated and Human-Created Paintings by Lay Viewers	10
Flourishing Aims of Art Museums: A Survey of Art Museum Professionals	10
Detection of Emotions in Artworks Using a Convolutional Neural Network Trained on Non-Artistic Images: A Methodology to Reduce the Cross-Depiction Problem	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	9
Education, Gender, and Blue-Chip Gallery Representation: The Importance of Educational Prestige in a Male-Dominated Art World	9
The Gray Cube Effect on Street Art Appreciation: Preliminary Findings on the Role of Art Figurativeness—A Brief Report	8
Can Narrative Bibliotherapy Reduce Vulnerability to Eating Disorders? Evidence from a Reading Experiment	8
AI Performer Bias: Listeners Like Music Less When They Think it was Performed by an AI	7
Emotional Regulation in Dance and Its Role in Emotional Expression: Evidence from Dance Majors	7
The Impact of Pseudo-Profound Bullshit Titles on Memory for Artist-Created and AI-Generated Art	6
Conscious vs. Preconscious Affective Priming Modulate Beauty Ratings and Gaze Patterns in AI-Generated Paintings	6
Ethos Theory of Music: Toward An Empirical Confirmation Through Moral Foundations Theory	5
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
Do Prestige and Animacy Matter to Art Experts? Exploring Social Learning, Signaling, Perceptual, and Cognitive Explanations	5
Preference for Harmony: A Preference for Structural Simplicity, Familiarity, or Both?	5
Immersed in Art: The Impact of Affinity for Technology Interaction and Hedonic Motivation on Aesthetic Experiences in Virtual Reality	5
Artists and Mate Preferences: The Effects of Being a Painter and Intellectuality	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
The Artistic Characteristics of Modern Calligraphy After 1985: An Exploration Based on Grounded Theory	4
The Influence of News, Expert and Public Opinion on Painting Prices: An Empirical Analysis	4
Psychological Coaching for Performing Artists: Perceptions of and Reflections on Finding Ways to Manage Performance Anxiety	4
The Effects of Psychotic Tendencies on Aesthetic Preferences of Paintings	4
Does the Source Matter? An Experimental Study on User Perception of AI-Generated Versus Human-Authored Curatorial Narratives	4
Artists on Climate Change: Their Intended Impact and Audiences	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
Effect of Pictorial Depth Cues on Illusory Spatial Depth of the Lin Family Garden	3
Perceived Intense Emotions and Their Influence on Cultural Identification Processes: A Mixed-Method Study of a Classical Music Festival	3
Audiovisual Associations in Saint-Saëns’ Carnival of the Animals : A Cross-Cultural Investigation on the Role of Timbre	3
Do American Critic Reviews Affect Film Consumption Abroad? The Brazilian Case	3
Comparison of Audiovisual Components of Dance in Novices and Experts’ Aesthetic Interest Perceptions	3
Effects of an Art Intervention Program Using Ambiguous Image-Text Interactions on Creative Thinking	3
Designing for Aesthetic Awe: Self-Transcendent Experiences with Generative AI and Augmented Self-Reflection	3
Exploring Film as Popular Art Promoting Scarred Villain Trope	3
Understanding Consumer Preferences for Hedonic Furniture: A Push-Pull-Mooring Analysis	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 Influence of Demographic Factors on Word Usage in Texts Written About Artworks	3
Exposure to Fernando Botero’s Art Is Associated with Lower Implicit Bias Against People with Obesity	3
Integrating Meaning and Stylistic Coherence: A Factor–Analytic Study of Artistic Expression in Student Visual Works	3
Three Forms of Tears at Art Museums: A Phenomenological Study of Viewers’ Tear-Shedding Experiences Through Blog Narratives	3
The Effects of Titles on the Aesthetic Evaluation of Japanese Poetry	2
The Relation Between DJs Behavior and Their Audience's Positive Affect and Perception of the Show. A Field Study in Electronic Dance Music Clubs	2
Can Virtual Art Touch Your Heart?—The Impact of Virtual Reality Art on Affect Considering Individual Characteristics and Aesthetic Experiences	2
On the Complexity of Literary and Popular Fiction	2
A Network Analysis of the Association Between Big Five Personality Traits and Sensitivity to Music Rewards	2
Bullshit (Sometimes) Makes the Art (Slightly) More Attractive: A Field Study in Gallery-Goers	2
Check-All-That-Apply and Storyworld Possible Selves: What Consumer Research Methods can do for the Study of Narrative Engagement	2
Unbound Dialogue: Exploring the Perception of AI-Mediated Art	2
Examining Facebook Groups Engaging in Reading Experiences: The Interactive Therapeutic Process Perspective	2
Dominance of Audio Features in Audience Emotion: A Multimodal EEG Analysis of Music Videos	2
The Linguistic Structure of Haiku/Senryu and Its Evolution Over Time	2
The Impact of Cross-Sensory Interaction Between Emotional Images and Musical Modes on the Aesthetic Evaluation of Neutral Stimuli	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
Spanish Validation of the Kaufman Domains of Creativity Scale (K-DOCS) and its Link with Attitude Towards Artistic Expression and Aesthetic Experience	2
Everyday Life vs Art: Effects of Framing on the Mode of Object Interpretation	2
The Poet is Speaking: A Case for Studying the Role of Auditory Imagery in Poetry-Elicited Emotions	2
A Phenomenological Microgenesis of Art Experience: A Qualitative Study of Zero Mass by Eric Orr	2
The Role of Virtual Reality (VR) in Managing Performance Anxiety for Pianists	2
Effects of Prior Knowledge and Peer Assessment on the Quality of English as a Foreign Language Poetry Writing	2
Guiding the Eye and Mind: The Interaction of Semantic Cues and Narrative Structure in the Aesthetic Appreciation of Dunhuang Murals	1
Psychological Determinants of Aesthetic and Affective Preferences for Nature and Urban Scenes: Anxiety, Nature Exposure, and Mental Imagery	1
Music Preferences and Their Associations With Uses of Music and Personality Factors and Facets	1
An Aesthetic Emotion Model for Chinese Ming-Style Furniture Patterns	1
Self-Cultivation to Academic Success: Effects of Stress and Psychological Characteristics among Performing and Non-Performing-Arts Students	1
Exploring Smartwatch Aesthetic Preferences Through the Unified Model of Aesthetics	1
How Context and Painting Attributes Affect Aesthetic Judgment Across Expertise	1
Categorization and Aesthetic Preference: Examining Typicality and Novelty Across Rich and Poor Categories	1
First- or Third-Person: The Impact of Narrative Voice and Reception Mode on Empathy, Identification, and Parasocial Interaction in Literary Engagement	1

Remembrances of Paul Locher	1
Attitudes and Abracadabra: How Do Skeptical, Superstitious, and Paranormal Beliefs Predict Enjoying Performance Magic?	1
Evaluating the Structure of the Aesthetic Responsiveness Assessment (AReA) with Bootstrap Exploratory Graph Analysis	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
Multisensory Imagery Enhances the Aesthetic Evaluation of Paintings: A Virtual Reality Study	1
Visiting Virtual Museums: How Personality and Art-Related Individual Differences Shape Visitor Behavior in an Online Virtual Gallery	1
A Cross-Cultural Comparison of Aesthetic Preferences for Neatly Organized Compositions: Native Chinese- Versus Native Dutch-Speaking Samples	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
What Makes People Like Dreamcore Aesthetics? the Role of Trait Nostalgia in Preferences for Dreamcore Imagery	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
Making Versus Viewing Art: Effects on Affect, Enjoyment, and Flow	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
Emotion, Language and Aesthetic Expression: On Motherwell and His Art	1