Psychology of Aesthetics Creativity and the Arts

Article	Citations
Supplemental Material for The Aesthetic Quality Model: Complexity and Randomness as Foundations of Visual Beauty by Signaling Quality	89
Supplemental Material for Increasing Music Preference Through Guided Self-Framing: A Comparison of Historical and Imaginative Approaches	69
What’s in a name? Book title salience and the psychology of fiction.	41
Editors' introduction August 2022.	40
On the overlap between aesthetic disposition, cultural eclecticism, and openness: An interdisciplinary study.	38
Supplemental Material for Who Likes the Grotesque? Mapping Individual Differences in Liking of Grotesque Artworks	34
Supplemental Material for Cross-Cultural Investigation Into the Associations of Fiction Reading Habits With Mentalizing Skills and Stereotyping Among Adults in the United Kingdom and Japan	34
A computational approach to studying aesthetic judgments of ambiguous artworks.	33
Parent–child creative activities are associated with children’s positive affect and relationships quality.	29
Mental imagery in aesthetic appreciation and the understanding of the self and others.	29
Engaged and confused: Aesthetic appreciation of live and screened contemporary dance.	28
Professional status matters: Differences in flow proneness between professional and amateur contemporary musicians.	26
Supplemental Material for Effect of a Creative Dance-Based Physical Education Intervention on Primary School Children’s Creativity and Self-Regulation: A Pilot Study	26
Supplemental Material for Diminishing Creative Returns: Predicting Optimal Creative Performance via Individual Differences in Executive Functioning	26
The effect of imagery on the comprehension and aesthetic appreciation of Chinese ancient poetry.	26
The influence of culture on the viewing of Western and East Asian paintings.	26
Supplemental Material for Type of Art Expertise Matters: Practical Experts Show a Greater Curvature Preference for Three-Dimensional Shapes Than Theoretical Experts	26
Supplemental Material for Gender Differences in Creative Potential: A Meta-Analysis of Mean Differences and Variability	23
Supplemental Material for Free but Controlled Mind Creates Through Reference: The Role of Shifting and Idea Referencing in Individuals With Different Working Memory and Mind Wandering Profiles	23
Supplemental Material for A View Worth Talking About: The Influence of Social Interaction on Aesthetic Experience and Well-Being Outcomes in the Gallery	22
Touch the color change: Representation of color change using tactile grating patterns.	21
Supplemental Material for A Brush With Scandal: How Artist Morality Shapes Aesthetic Preferences	21
Supplemental Material for A Computational Approach to Studying Aesthetic Judgments of Ambiguous Artworks	20
The effect of self-expansion on creativity: Examining the role of novelty experiences.	20
Supplemental Material for A New Test for Assessing Creative Flexibility of Perceptual Interpretation: The Figural Interpretation Quest	20

An improved taxonomy of creativity measures based on salient task attributes.	20
Color’s perceptual diversity and categorical harmony improve aesthetic experience.	19
Focus of attention affects togetherness experiences and body interactivity in piano duos.	19
How do examples impact divergent thinking? The interplay between associative and executive processes.	19
Exploring barriers to and drivers of participatory arts engagement in early adolescence.	19
Staged and gendered pathways from parenting behaviors to Chinese students’ creative thinking: The roles of autonomous motivation and creative self-efficacy.	18
Supplemental Material for Toward Equitable Creativity Self-Assessment: Measurement Invariance and Mean Differences Across Ethnicity in the Kaufman Domains of Creativity Scale	17
Supplemental Material for Photographs That Repulse or Entice: Sense-Making and Emotional Experiencing of Artistic Photographs	17
Supplemental Material for Original Photographic Art Induces Self-Transcendent Emotions	17
Eye color is more important than skin color for clothing color aesthetics.	17
Assessing the robustness of automated scoring of divergent thinking tasks with adversarial examples.	16
Measuring storyworld possible selves in depression stories: Linguistic features, personal relevance, and the narrative experience.	16
Supplemental Material for A Time and a Place for Art Perception	16
Object-based practice effects recover the graphic object concept in Alzheimer’s dementia.	16
A brush with scandal: How artist morality shapes aesthetic preferences.	16
Does flower preference differ across cultures? A study of Czech and Kenyan populations.	16
Makeup works by modifying factors of facial beauty.	16
The relation between the aesthetic perception of objects and the focus in visual attention across different stages of ego development.	15
Editor’s introduction.	15
Supplemental Material for Imaginings From an Unfamiliar World: Narrative Engagement With a New Musical System	15
An itsy bitsy audience: Live performance facilitates infants’ attention and heart rate synchronization.	15
Supplemental Material for Effect of Hedonic Contrasts on Movie Appreciation	15
Can young children control their creativity? Examining the role of executive function in modifying children’s creative processes.	14
Do you chill when I chill? A cross-cultural study of strong emotional responses to music.	14
Adaptation of the Runco Ideational Behavior Scale into Turkish: A confirmatory factor analysis and Rasch study.	14
The role of expertise in visual exploration and aesthetic judgment of residential building façades: An eye-tracking study.	14
Cathedrals of sound: Predictors of the sublime and the beautiful in music, images, and music with images.	14
Creative achievement and individual differences: Associations across and within the domains of creativity.	13
A systematic quantitative review of divergent thinking assessments.	13
Were they appealing to the sun? On why cones and tetrahedra were so popular at the dawn of civilization.	13
How filmmakers guide the eye: The effect of average shot length on intersubject attentional synchrony.	13
Editors’ Introduction to Part 1 of the Special Issue on Racial and Cultural Issues.	13
Supplemental Material for Effectiveness of Drama-Based Therapies on Mental Health Outcomes: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Controlled Studies	13
Supplemental Material for The Effects of Parent and Child Participation in Visual Art Activities on the Attachment and Well-Being of Young Children: A Mixed-Methods Systematic Review	13
Supplemental Material for The Influence of Culture on the Viewing of Western and East Asian Paintings	13
The Aesthetic Responsiveness Assessment (AReA) in Farsi language: A scale validation and cultural adaptation study.	13
Review of The Psychology of Creative Performance and Expertise.	13
Editors’ introduction April 2024.	13
Supplemental Material for How Do Examples Impact Divergent Thinking? The Interplay Between Associative and Executive Processes	13
Supplemental Material for Visuospatial Components of Drawing Skill Correlate With Mental Transformation Performance	12
Supplemental Material for Spirit Behind Appearance: Facial Motion Increases Facial Attractiveness Through Perceived Vitality	12
Supplemental Material for Staged and Gendered Pathways From Parenting Behaviors to Chinese Students’ Creative Thinking: The Roles of Autonomous Motivation and Creative Self-Efficacy	12
The art of feeling different: Exploring the diversity of emotions experienced during an art museum visit.	11
The relationship between mobile phone use and creative ideation among college students: The roles of critical thinking and creative self-efficacy.	11
Automated scoring of figural creativity using a convolutional neural network.	11
Supplemental Material for Understanding the Psychology of Fashion: Demographic, Personality, and Fashion Factors Underlying Everyday Clothing Choices in the United Kingdom and United States	11
The nature of perception and emotion in aesthetic appreciation: A response to Makin’s challenge to empirical aesthetics.	11
Artists have superior local and global processing abilities but show a preference for initially drawing globally.	11
The complementary roles of intuition and logic in creative design ideation.	11
A Model of Creative Aging (MOCA): Unlocking the potential of constraints for creativity in older adults.	11

“Like static noise in a beautiful landscape”: A mixed-methods approach to rationales and features of disliked voices in popular music.	10
Supplemental Material for The Appeal of Insight: Why Riddles and Whodunits Captivate Us	10
Supplemental Material for Aesthetic Preferences Among Spatial Patterns: Large-Scale Experiment, Comprehensive Exploration, and a Three-Component Regularity-Based Model	10
Big-C creativity in artists and scientists is associated with more random global but less random local fMRI functional connectivity.	10
Supplemental Material for Applying Bodily Sensation Maps to Art-Elicited Emotions: An Explorative Study	10
Beyond the single picture: Aesthetic experiences with photography series in an exhibition context.	10
Editors’ introduction.	10
Subjective emotional instances surpass formal perceptual features in shaping the aesthetic appeal of artworks.	10
Supplemental Material for A Meta-Analysis of the Effects of Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation on Creative Thinking	10
Supplemental Material for Visual Exploration Mediates the Influence of Personal Traits on Responses to Artworks in an Art Gallery Setting	9
D-I-WHAT? Identifying creative domains in do-it-yourself videos on YouTube.	9
The brain entropy basis of schizotypal personality and its relation to fantasy proneness.	9
The relationship between divergent thinking, emotional regulation in the arts, and cognitive reappraisal.	9
Character strengths afforded by arts engagement during adolescence: The development and validation of the Creative Artistic Activities Strengths Affordances Scale.	9
Universality and specificity of the kindchenschema: A cross-cultural study on cute rectangles.	9
Overexcitabilities and bidirectional development in playfulness and creative potential among kindergarten children.	9
Aesthetic judgments of music: Reliability, consistency, criteria, self-insight, and expertise.	9
Reliability and validity of a novel Ambulatory Battery of Creativity (ABC).	9
Supplemental Material for The Temporal Instability of Aesthetic Preferences	9
Automated feedback and creativity: On the role of metacognitive monitoring in divergent thinking.	9
Differential effects of film genre on viewers’ absorption, identification, and enjoyment.	8
Supplemental Material for Vigilance and Social Chills With Music: Evidence for Two Types of Musical Chills	8
Increasing music preference through guided self-framing: A comparison of historical and imaginative approaches.	8
Moving me, moving you: Emotional expressivity, empathy, and prior experience shape whole-body movement preferences.	8
Imaginings from an unfamiliar world: Narrative engagement with a new musical system.	8
Figuring out what they feel: Exposure to eudaimonic narrative fiction is related to mentalizing ability.	8
Visual perception of the built environment in virtual reality: A systematic characterization of human aesthetic experience in spaces with curved boundaries.	8
Supplemental Material for Emotion, Embodiment, and Aesthetic Appraisal: The Impact of Interoceptive Abilities and Art Type	8
Art as communication: Fulfilling Gricean communication principles predicts aesthetic liking.	8
Methods used to study audience experience of screen-based media: A scoping review.	8
Supplemental Material for Creative Mindset Induction Affects Beliefs but Not Creative Task Performance	8
Understanding metaphor in art: Distinguishing literal giants from metaphorical challenges.	8
Supplemental Material for How Much Does Performance Quality Matter in Musical Emotion Induction? Main Effects and Interaction Effects With Listener Features	8
The time-course of fixations in representational paintings: A cross-cultural study.	8
Supplemental Material for From Momentary to Long-Term Affect: How Affective Processes Shape Poetic Creativity	8
Narrative aesthetic absorption in audiobooks is predicted by blink rate and acoustic features.	8
How stable is the creative self-concept? A latent state-trait analysis.	7
Processing fluency, processing style, and aesthetic response to artistic photographs.	7
In the dark cube: Movie theater context enhances the valuation and aesthetic experience of watching films.	7
What a great feeling! The “experiencing art at school” program to engage children in visual arts and improve their emotional states.	7
Supplemental Material for Paths to Transformation Across Contemporary Reading Practices: The Role of Motivations and Genre Preferences	7
Lofty aims, limited actors, fewer artifacts: A sociocultural analysis of Confucian conceptions of creativity and innovation.	7
Evaluation of aesthetic pleasure in schizophrenia spectrum disorders, using the eye-tracking methodology.	7
Supplemental Material for Beyond the Here and Now: Leveraging Distal Mental Simulation for Creative Breakthroughs	7
Supplemental Material for Automated Feedback and Creativity: On the Role of Metacognitive Monitoring in Divergent Thinking	7
The Aesthetic Responsiveness Assessment (AReA): A screening tool to assess individual differences in responsiveness to art in English and German.	7
Trust the process: The effects of iteration in children’s creative processes on their creative products.	7
Free but controlled mind creates through reference: The role of shifting and idea referencing in individuals with different working memory and mind wandering profiles.	7
Vigilance and social chills with music: Evidence for two types of musical chills.	7
Development and initial validation of the State Spontaneity Scale.	7
Supplemental Material for Presenting TaMuNaBe: A Taxonomy of Museum Navigation Behaviors	7
Review of Why theatre education matters: Understanding its cognitive, social, and emotional benefits.	7
What types of daydreaming predict creativity? Laboratory and experience sampling evidence.	7
Supplemental Material for Is Humor Temperament Associated With Being Creative, Original, and Funny? A Tale of Three Studies	7
Editors’ introduction, February 2023.	7
Review of Mary Climbs In: The Journeys of Bruce Springsteen’s Women Fans.	7
Content warnings reduce aesthetic appreciation of visual art.	6
Don't throw the “bad” ideas away! Multidimensional top scoring increases reliability of divergent thinking tasks.	6
Some like it sharp: Song familiarity influences musical preference for absolute tuning.	6
The relationship between lifetime book reading and empathy in adolescents: Examining transportability as a moderator.	6
Acting gender: Actors’ experiences of gender role conformity and hopes for their characters.	6
Multilingual semantic distance: Automatic verbal creativity assessment in many languages.	6
Less is more: The effect of visiting duration on the perceived restorativeness of museums.	6
Back where I belong: Rereading as a risk-free pathway to social connection.	6
Images influencing images: How pictorial context affects the emotional interpretation of art photographs.	6
Supplemental Material for Challenging Magicians’ Intuitive Insights: The Role of Audience Participation in Experiencing a Magic Trick	6
Together in the dark?: Investigating the understanding and feeling of intended emotions between viewers and professional artists at the Venice Biennale.	6
Patterns of psychological vulnerabilities and resources in artists and nonartists.	6
Supplemental Material for D-I-WHAT? Identifying Creative Domains in Do-It-Yourself Videos on YouTube	6
Visual attention bias for self-made artworks.	6
Supplemental Material for Movement-Based Music in the Classroom: Investigating the Effects of Music Programs Incorporating Body Movement in Primary School Children	6
Association between music use and depression among college students: The moderating roles of regulatory emotional self-efficacy and gender.	6
Audience responses to diverse superheroes: The roles of gender and race in forging connections with media characters in superhero franchise films.	6
Does divergent thinking relate to expertise? Introducing a novel test of creative ideation in music.	5
Dual pathways in creative writing processes.	5
When the painting meets its musical inspiration: The impact of multimodal art experience on aesthetic enjoyment and subjective well-being in the museum.	5
Supplemental Material for The Effect of Implicit Theories of Human Beauty and Perceived Pressure on Cosmetic Consumption	5
Artificial intelligence and art: Identifying the aesthetic judgment factors that distinguish human- and machine-generated artwork.	5
Conceptualizing, operationalizing, and assessing creativity in early childhood education and care settings: A scoping review.	5
Supplemental Material for Cultural Diversity in Oculometric Parameters When Viewing Art and Non-Art	5

Mind wandering outside the box—About the role of off-task thoughts and their assessment during creative incubation.	5
Fifty years later and still working: Rediscovering Paulus et al’s (1970) automated scoring of divergent thinking tests.	5
Visual arts activities relate to interest and cortisol for children in Head Start preschool.	5
Supplemental Material for The Usual Miracles: How Narrative Style Affects the Processing of Counterintuitive Concepts	5
Beauty lies in the eye of the mindful: Does mindfulness intensify aesthetic experience by freeing working memory resources?	5
Supplemental Material for Sense-Sational Acting: Intuition in Actors Is Supported by Interoceptive, Exteroceptive, and Immersive Abilities	5
Supplemental Material for Laughing Across the Bridge: The Role of Associative Abilities in Humor	5
The temporal instability of aesthetic preferences.	5
The aesthetic experience of live concerts: Self-reports and psychophysiology.	5
Modality influences perceived film suspense but not time perception.	5
Supplemental Material for Development and Validation of the Aesthetic Processing Preference Scale (APPS)	5
Neural dissociation between computational and subjective image complexity.	5
More light about each other: Theater education as a context for developing social awareness and relationship skills.	5
The influence of anger and anxiety on idea generation: Taking a closer look at integral and incidental emotion effects.	4
Poetry-elicited emotions: Reading experience and psychological mechanisms.	4
An exploratory study of historical representations of love in an art gallery exhibition.	4
Supplemental Material for Subjective Emotional Instances Surpass Formal Perceptual Features in Shaping the Aesthetic Appeal of Artworks	4
Subjective understanding boosts contemporary art appreciation among primary school students.	4
Preference for paintings is also affected by curvature.	4
Pitch height and mode have asymmetrical effects on the perception of mixed emotions in major and minor seventh chords.	4
Supplemental Material for The Cognitive Brain Processes for Representing Form/Design Innovation and Function Innovation Product Designs	4
How verbal cues help to see and understand art.	4
Effectiveness of drama-based therapies on mental health outcomes: A systematic review and meta-analysis of controlled studies.	4
From story to heartbeats: Physiological synchrony in theater audiences.	4
The spectrum of distributed creativity: Tango dancing and its generative modalities.	4
What counts as aesthetics in science? A bibliometric analysis and visualization of the scientific literature from 1970 to 2018.	4
Supplemental Material for An Randomized Study of El Sistema-Inspired Youth Music Education Programming: Evidence Addressing Executive Function and Social–Emotional Learning	4
Altering balance perception through the agent’s expression: Happy face suppresses the inward bias.	4
Mood and creativity in children: Differential impacts on convergent and divergent thinking.	4
Supplemental Material for Judging Beauty and Liking: The Effects of Personal Intuitions and Task Instructions	4
Green slime and orange blimps: A linguistic analysis of Nickelodeon’s kids’ choice awards.	4
The Goldsmiths Dance Sophistication Index (Gold-DSI): A psychometric tool to assess individual differences in dance experience.	4
Supplemental Material for Evaluation of Poetic Creativity: Predictors and the Role of Expertise—A Multilevel Approach	4
Untrustworthy beauty: Beautification strategies cause female applicators to be perceived untrustworthy.	4
Supplemental Material for The Aesthetic Responsiveness Assessment (AReA) in Farsi Language: A Scale Validation and Cultural Adaptation Study	4
Beyond the here and now: Leveraging distal mental simulation for creative breakthroughs.	4
Intellectual risk taking: A moderating link between creative confidence and creative behavior?	4
Supplemental Material for More Light About Each Other: Theater Education as a Context for Developing Social Awareness and Relationship Skills	4
Identifying the functional relationships between creativity and its constituents: A task for response surface analysis?	4
Shared meaning in representational and abstract visual art: An empirical study.	4
Gravitating toward the arts during the COVID-19 pandemic.	4
Melody in poems and songs: Fundamental statistical properties predict aesthetic evaluation.	4
Cognitive reappraisal and creative self-concept among higher education students: A latent class analysis.	4
Supplemental Material for Exploration of Discriminant Validity in Divergent Thinking Tasks: A Meta-Analysis	3
The kitsch switch—or (when) do experts dislike Thomas Kinkade art? A study of time-based evaluation changes in top-down versus bottom-up assessment.	3
The relationship between demographics, behavioral and experiential engagement factors, and the use of artistic creative activities to regulate emotions.	3
Worth the effort? Comparing different youtube vlog production styles in terms of viewers’ identification, parasocial response, immersion, and enjoyment.	3
Supplemental Material for Psychopathology in World-Class Artistic and Scientific Creativity	3
Supplemental Material for “I Feel like I Am in That Place and I Would like to See More”: Aesthetic and Embodiment Components of Tourist Destination Image	3
Eyelight enhances perceived emotional responses to cinema.	3
Music self-efficacy, self-esteem, and help-seeking orientation among amateur musicians who use online music tutorials.	3
The effect of visual recognition on listener choices when searching for music in playlists.	3
Personality traits as predictors of work creativity: A comparison between self- and other-reports.	3
Participation in intensive orchestral music training does not cause gains in executive functioning, self-perception, or attitudes toward school in young children.	3
Supplemental Material for Melody in Poems and Songs: Fundamental Statistical Properties Predict Aesthetic Evaluation	3
Does the typeface on album cover influence expectations and perception of music?	3
Inspired by art: Higher aesthetic appeal elicits increased felt inspiration in a creative writing task.	3
It is heart to be creative: Insights from ambulatory monitoring.	3
Automated scoring of creative problem solving with large language models: A comparison of originality and quality ratings.	3
Measuring divergent thinking originality with human raters and text-mining models: A psychometric comparison of methods.	3
Applying German word vectors to assess flexibility performance in the associative fluency task.	3
Creative thinking and executive functions: Associations and training effects in adolescents.	3
Creative idea forecasting: The effect of task exposure on idea evaluation.	3
Dancing through the uncanny valley: On the likeability of model-generated dance movements.	3
Beyond togetherness: Interactional dissensus fosters creativity and tension in freely improvised musical duos.	3
Edit blindness is not related to immersion and presence in Hollywood movies.	3
Self- and other-reported creativity and its association with personality in a cappella singers.	3
Supplemental Material for The Role of Imagery and Emotion in the Aesthetic Appeal of Music, Poetry, and Paintings	3
From pathogens to paintings: A preliminary investigation into the behavioral immune system’s influence on visual aesthetic appreciation and perception.	3
Supplemental Material for Bridging the Gap Through Common Features: The Semantic Structure of Creative Metaphors	3
Individual differences in aesthetic engagement and proneness to aesthetic chill: Associations with stress-related growth orientation.	3
Behavioral indices of effort discounting are related to perseverance on a creativity task and to bipolar disorder.	2
Does reading a single short story of literary fiction improve social-cognitive skills? Testing the priming hypothesis.	2
Supplemental Material for A MAD Method to Assess Idea Novelty: Improving Validity of Automatic Scoring Using Maximum Associative Distance (MAD)	2
Culture, personal values, personality, uses of music, and musical taste.	2
Supplemental Material for Time Perception in the Insightful Solution Processes	2
Supplemental Material for Divergent Thinking and Creative Achievement—How Strong Is the Link? An Updated Meta-Analysis	2
Understanding the psychology of fashion: Demographic, personality, and fashion factors underlying everyday clothing choices in the United Kingdom and United States.	2
More recruitment but inefficient performance: The effects of creativity anxiety on consciously augmenting state creativity in the figural domain.	2
Supplemental Material for Conceptualizing, Operationalizing, and Assessing Creativity in Early Childhood Education and Care Settings: A Scoping Review	2
Increasing creativity through the development of thinking skills: Combinatorial thinking of viola players.	2
Correction to “The effect of visual recognition on listener choices when searching for music in playlists” by Steffens and Anglada-Tort (2023).	2
Creative adaptability and emotional well-being during the COVID-19 pandemic: An international study.	2
Beyond the brush: Human versus artificial intelligence creativity in the realm of generative art.	2
Supplemental Material for Impact of Veteran Journeys Opera on Audience Member Attitudes Related to Veterans With Posttraumatic Stress or Unstable Housing	2
Review of Creativity & art: Neuroscientific and psychoanalytic perspectives.	2
Consensual assessment in the new domain of e-textiles: Comparing insights from expert, quasi-expert, and novice judges.	2
Visual exploration mediates the influence of personal traits on responses to artworks in an art gallery setting.	2
Supplemental Material for Virtual Art Visits: Examining the Effects of Slow Looking on Well-Being in an Online Environment	2
Babies’ engagement in music theater performances: A microanalytical study of the aesthetic experiences in early childhood.	2
Beyond the intellect/openness model? Relationships between Chinese openness and cognitive performance.	2
Automated assessment of creativity in multilingual narratives.	2
Construction and validation of a computerized creativity assessment tool with automated scoring based on deep-learning techniques.	2
The balancing act: An empirical study introducing and removing constraints in idea generation.	2
How insecure narcissists become cultural omnivores: Consuming highbrow culture for status seeking and lowbrow culture for integrity signaling.	2