Psychology of Aesthetics Creativity and the Arts

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Supplemental Material for Who Likes the Grotesque? Mapping Individual Differences in Liking of Grotesque Artworks	66
On the overlap between aesthetic disposition, cultural eclecticism, and openness: An interdisciplinary study.	56
A computational approach to studying aesthetic judgments of ambiguous artworks.	49
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	44
Editors' introduction August 2022.	42
Anterior insula is an integrative hub in aesthetic judgment.	40
The impact of self-criticism in early and middle stages of the creative process.	39
Pythagoras’ quest: A mathematical model and scale for aesthetic judgments.	39
Parent–child creative activities are associated with children’s positive affect and relationships quality.	38
Supplemental Material for A New Test for Assessing Creative Flexibility of Perceptual Interpretation: The Figural Interpretation Quest	36
Engaged and confused: Aesthetic appreciation of live and screened contemporary dance.	36
Supplemental Material for A Computational Approach to Studying Aesthetic Judgments of Ambiguous Artworks	36
Mental imagery in aesthetic appreciation and the understanding of the self and others.	36
Supplemental Material for A Brush With Scandal: How Artist Morality Shapes Aesthetic Preferences	34
The effect of self-expansion on creativity: Examining the role of novelty experiences.	33
Supplemental Material for Diminishing Creative Returns: Predicting Optimal Creative Performance via Individual Differences in Executive Functioning	33
Touch the color change: Representation of color change using tactile grating patterns.	31
Supplemental Material for Feeling Socially (Dis)Engaging Emotions With Favorite Music: The Role of Self-Construal Across Cultures	29
Color’s perceptual diversity and categorical harmony improve aesthetic experience.	29
Supplemental Material for “Memorable Speech”: Formal and Affective Determinants of Memory for Poetry	28
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	27
The effect of imagery on the comprehension and aesthetic appreciation of Chinese ancient poetry.	27
Supplemental Material for Creativity Quotes: An Expansive Analysis of Condensed Wisdom	26
The influence of culture on the viewing of Western and East Asian paintings.	26
Focus of attention affects togetherness experiences and body interactivity in piano duos.	25

Exploring barriers to and drivers of participatory arts engagement in early adolescence.	25
Bias against artificial intelligence in visual art: A meta-analysis.	23
Supplemental Material for Type of Art Expertise Matters: Practical Experts Show a Greater Curvature Preference for Three-Dimensional Shapes Than Theoretical Experts	23
Supplemental Material for Effect of a Creative Dance-Based Physical Education Intervention on Primary School Children’s Creativity and Self-Regulation: A Pilot Study	23
How do examples impact divergent thinking? The interplay between associative and executive processes.	23
Supplemental Material for A View Worth Talking About: The Influence of Social Interaction on Aesthetic Experience and Well-Being Outcomes in the Gallery	23
Supplemental Material for Toward Equitable Creativity Self-Assessment: Measurement Invariance and Mean Differences Across Ethnicity in the Kaufman Domains of Creativity Scale	22
An improved taxonomy of creativity measures based on salient task attributes.	22
Professional status matters: Differences in flow proneness between professional and amateur contemporary musicians.	22
Supplemental Material for Original Photographic Art Induces Self-Transcendent Emotions	22
A brush with scandal: How artist morality shapes aesthetic preferences.	21
The recall and recognition of sonic logos.	21
Supplemental Material for Photographs That Repulse or Entice: Sense-Making and Emotional Experiencing of Artistic Photographs	20
Eye color is more important than skin color for clothing color aesthetics.	20
Supplemental Material for A Systematic Approach to Study Preferences for Complexity at Different Levels of Order	20
Measuring storyworld possible selves in depression stories: Linguistic features, personal relevance, and the narrative experience.	20
Supplemental Material for A Time and a Place for Art Perception	19
The eye of an artist: How visual training shapes the way we compare visual scenes.	18
Does flower preference differ across cultures? A study of Czech and Kenyan populations.	18
Assessing the robustness of automated scoring of divergent thinking tasks with adversarial examples.	18
Makeup works by modifying factors of facial beauty.	17
Staged and gendered pathways from parenting behaviors to Chinese students’ creative thinking: The roles of autonomous motivation and creative self-efficacy.	17
Editor’s introduction.	17
The heart behind the art: Motives for making art and how they influence audience appreciation.	17
Object-based practice effects recover the graphic object concept in Alzheimer’s dementia.	16
Implicit aesthetic processing and emotional priming: A functional magnetic resonance imaging study on artistic and nonartistic stimuli.	16
Supplemental Material for Effectiveness of Drama-Based Therapies on Mental Health Outcomes: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Controlled Studies	16
Supplemental Material for Filling in the Blanks of Ganzfeld Art	16
Can young children control their creativity? Examining the role of executive function in modifying children’s creative processes.	16
Review of The Psychology of Creative Performance and Expertise.	16
Supplemental Material for Imaginings From an Unfamiliar World: Narrative Engagement With a New Musical System	16
The Aesthetic Responsiveness Assessment (AReA) in Farsi language: A scale validation and cultural adaptation study.	15
Supplemental Material for The Effect of Social Comparison Feedback on Creative Performance and the Moderating Roles of Creative Self-Efficacy and Creative Personal Identity	15
“It’s as though I woke up”: Exploring the experiences of older women with constricted life-space mobility in group tele-drama therapy.	15
The relation between the aesthetic perception of objects and the focus in visual attention across different stages of ego development.	15
Supplemental Material for Assessing Music Engagement: Adaptation, Validation, and Structural Invariance of Self-Rated and Informant French Versions of the Music Engagement Questionnaire in Middle and	15
Thinking beyond your own experience: How expert cases and guidance enhance creativity for nonexperts.	15
Adaptation of the Runco Ideational Behavior Scale into Turkish: A confirmatory factor analysis and Rasch study.	15
The computational and neural mechanisms of audiovisual multisensory aesthetic information influences on value-based decision-making.	15
An itsy bitsy audience: Live performance facilitates infants’ attention and heart rate synchronization.	14
Cathedrals of sound: Predictors of the sublime and the beautiful in music, images, and music with images.	14
A systematic quantitative review of divergent thinking assessments.	14
Were they appealing to the sun? On why cones and tetrahedra were so popular at the dawn of civilization.	14
Creative achievement and individual differences: Associations across and within the domains of creativity.	14
Editors’ introduction April 2024.	13
Editors’ Introduction to Part 1 of the Special Issue on Racial and Cultural Issues.	13
Big-C creativity in artists and scientists is associated with more random global but less random local fMRI functional connectivity.	13
The complementary roles of intuition and logic in creative design ideation.	13
Artists have superior local and global processing abilities but show a preference for initially drawing globally.	12
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
The relationship between mobile phone use and creative ideation among college students: The roles of critical thinking and creative self-efficacy.	12
Supplemental Material for How Do Examples Impact Divergent Thinking? The Interplay Between Associative and Executive Processes	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
Supplemental Material for Understanding the Psychology of Fashion: Demographic, Personality, and Fashion Factors Underlying Everyday Clothing Choices in the United Kingdom and United States	12
Supplemental Material for Books or Films, Ephemeral or Habitual? Untangling the Path From Narrative Fiction to Social Cognition	12
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	12
Still images, shifting minds: Testing the transformative effects of evocative visuals.	12
Supplemental Material for Narrativity and Its Effects on Reading Experiences, Empathy, and Intergroup Attitudes	12
Beyond the single picture: Aesthetic experiences with photography series in an exhibition context.	11
A Model of Creative Aging (MOCA): Unlocking the potential of constraints for creativity in older adults.	11
D-I-WHAT? Identifying creative domains in do-it-yourself videos on YouTube.	11
Supplemental Material for Life or Art? A Model of Street Art Experience	11
The art of feeling different: Exploring the diversity of emotions experienced during an art museum visit.	11
The relationship between divergent thinking, emotional regulation in the arts, and cognitive reappraisal.	11
Acknowledgment of Ad Hoc Reviewers	11
Automated scoring of figural creativity using a convolutional neural network.	11
Supplemental Material for A Meta-Analysis of the Effects of Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation on Creative Thinking	10
Supplemental Material for The Appeal of Insight: Why Riddles and Whodunits Captivate Us	10
Editors’ introduction.	10
Supplemental Material for Aesthetic Preferences Among Spatial Patterns: Large-Scale Experiment, Comprehensive Exploration, and a Three-Component Regularity-Based Model	10
Subjective emotional instances surpass formal perceptual features in shaping the aesthetic appeal of artworks.	10
The brain entropy basis of schizotypal personality and its relation to fantasy proneness.	10
Divergent versus convergent creativity in children: Neural dissociation of novelty and usefulness via fNIRS.	10
Supplemental Material for The Temporal Instability of Aesthetic Preferences	10
Art has no gender, only gender bias.	10
“Like static noise in a beautiful landscape”: A mixed-methods approach to rationales and features of disliked voices in popular music.	10
Aesthetic judgments of music: Reliability, consistency, criteria, self-insight, and expertise.	9
Character strengths afforded by arts engagement during adolescence: The development and validation of the Creative Artistic Activities Strengths Affordances Scale.	9
Supplemental Material for From Momentary to Long-Term Affect: How Affective Processes Shape Poetic Creativity	9
Supplemental Material for How Much Does Performance Quality Matter in Musical Emotion Induction? Main Effects and Interaction Effects With Listener Features	9
Understanding metaphor in art: Distinguishing literal giants from metaphorical challenges.	9
Overexcitabilities and bidirectional development in playfulness and creative potential among kindergarten children.	9
Automated feedback and creativity: On the role of metacognitive monitoring in divergent thinking.	9
Why do we engage less with art over time? Empirical investigations on the role of habituation and stimulus novelty in mitigating the decreased engagement from repeated art viewing.	9
Supplemental Material for Canceling Creativity? Exploring Artist Censure As a Function of Crime Type	9
Reliability and validity of a novel Ambulatory Battery of Creativity (ABC).	9
Children’s concepts of creativity in video games.	9
Feeling socially (dis)engaging emotions with favorite music: The role of self-construal across cultures.	9
Supplemental Material for Visual Exploration Mediates the Influence of Personal Traits on Responses to Artworks in an Art Gallery Setting	9
Increasing music preference through guided self-framing: A comparison of historical and imaginative approaches.	9
Trust the process: The effects of iteration in children’s creative processes on their creative products.	9
The time-course of fixations in representational paintings: A cross-cultural study.	9
Supplemental Material for Creative Mindset Induction Affects Beliefs but Not Creative Task Performance	8
Supplemental Material for Emotion, Embodiment, and Aesthetic Appraisal: The Impact of Interoceptive Abilities and Art Type	8
Neuroarchitecture of aesthetic experience: Investigating brain oscillations for interior spaces with curved boundaries in virtual reality.	8
Review of Mary Climbs In: The Journeys of Bruce Springsteen’s Women Fans.	8
Evaluation of aesthetic pleasure in schizophrenia spectrum disorders, using the eye-tracking methodology.	8
Processing fluency, processing style, and aesthetic response to artistic photographs.	8
Both science and art elicit emotional well-being: An examination of creativity and mood.	8
Universality and specificity of the kindchenschema: A cross-cultural study on cute rectangles.	8
Imaginings from an unfamiliar world: Narrative engagement with a new musical system.	8
Supplemental Material for D-I-WHAT? Identifying Creative Domains in Do-It-Yourself Videos on YouTube	8
Supplemental Material for Paths to Transformation Across Contemporary Reading Practices: The Role of Motivations and Genre Preferences	8
Content warnings reduce aesthetic appreciation of visual art.	8
Supplemental Material for Inhale, Exhale, Draw: A Guided Drawing and Mindfulness Intervention for Anxiety Reduction	8
Methods used to study audience experience of screen-based media: A scoping review.	8
Moving me, moving you: Emotional expressivity, empathy, and prior experience shape whole-body movement preferences.	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 Automated Feedback and Creativity: On the Role of Metacognitive Monitoring in Divergent Thinking	8
Review of Why theatre education matters: Understanding its cognitive, social, and emotional benefits.	8
Inhale, exhale, draw: A guided drawing and mindfulness intervention for anxiety reduction.	7
Supplemental Material for Beyond the Here and Now: Leveraging Distal Mental Simulation for Creative Breakthroughs	7
Lofty aims, limited actors, fewer artifacts: A sociocultural analysis of Confucian conceptions of creativity and innovation.	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
Editors’ introduction, February 2023.	7
Supplemental Material for The Persian Author Recognition Test: Exposure to Literary and Popular Fiction Differently Predicts Theory of Mind	7
What a great feeling! The “experiencing art at school” program to engage children in visual arts and improve their emotional states.	7
How stable is the creative self-concept? A latent state-trait analysis.	7
Supplemental Material for Challenging Magicians’ Intuitive Insights: The Role of Audience Participation in Experiencing a Magic Trick	7
Don't throw the “bad” ideas away! Multidimensional top scoring increases reliability of divergent thinking tasks.	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
Less is more: The effect of visiting duration on the perceived restorativeness of museums.	7
Multilingual semantic distance: Automatic verbal creativity assessment in many languages.	7
The aesthetic experience of live concerts: Self-reports and psychophysiology.	7
Fifty years later and still working: Rediscovering Paulus et al’s (1970) automated scoring of divergent thinking tests.	6
Acting gender: Actors’ experiences of gender role conformity and hopes for their characters.	6
Dual pathways in creative writing processes.	6
Audience responses to diverse superheroes: The roles of gender and race in forging connections with media characters in superhero franchise films.	6

Modality influences perceived film suspense but not time perception.	6
Supplemental Material for The Computational and Neural Mechanisms of Audiovisual Multisensory Aesthetic Information Influences on Value-Based Decision-Making	6
Together in the dark?: Investigating the understanding and feeling of intended emotions between viewers and professional artists at the Venice Biennale.	6
Association between music use and depression among college students: The moderating roles of regulatory emotional self-efficacy and gender.	6
Breaking the mold: How dark personality traits shape creative achievement through cognitive styles.	6
Visual arts activities relate to interest and cortisol for children in Head Start preschool.	6
The temporal instability of aesthetic preferences.	6
Some like it sharp: Song familiarity influences musical preference for absolute tuning.	6
Images influencing images: How pictorial context affects the emotional interpretation of art photographs.	6
The relationship between lifetime book reading and empathy in adolescents: Examining transportability as a moderator.	6
When the painting meets its musical inspiration: The impact of multimodal art experience on aesthetic enjoyment and subjective well-being in the museum.	6
Visual attention bias for self-made artworks.	6
Preference for paintings is also affected by curvature.	5
What counts as aesthetics in science? A bibliometric analysis and visualization of the scientific literature from 1970 to 2018.	5
Pitch height and mode have asymmetrical effects on the perception of mixed emotions in major and minor seventh chords.	5
Art therapy with women survivors of intimate partner violence: A scoping review.	5
Does divergent thinking relate to expertise? Introducing a novel test of creative ideation in music.	5
Mood and creativity in children: Differential impacts on convergent and divergent thinking.	5
Supplemental Material for Laughing Across the Bridge: The Role of Associative Abilities in Humor	5
Emotional resonance and cognitive processing in cross-media art: A psychological analysis of the synthesis of photography and painting in the works of Liu Xiaodong.	5
Neural dissociation between computational and subjective image complexity.	5
Supplemental Material for A Randomized Study of El Sistema-Inspired Youth Music Education Programming: Evidence Addressing Executive Function and Social–Emotional Learning	5
Supplemental Material for The Usual Miracles: How Narrative Style Affects the Processing of Counterintuitive Concepts	5
Let creativity flow: Are flow states linked to enhanced creative performance?	5
The effect of social comparison feedback on creative performance and the moderating roles of creative self-efficacy and creative personal identity.	5
Identifying the functional relationships between creativity and its constituents: A task for response surface analysis?	5
Supplemental Material for Cultural Diversity in Oculometric Parameters When Viewing Art and Non-Art	5
Subjective understanding boosts contemporary art appreciation among primary school students.	5
Beauty lies in the eye of the mindful: Does mindfulness intensify aesthetic experience by freeing working memory resources?	5
Supplemental Material for Subjective Emotional Instances Surpass Formal Perceptual Features in Shaping the Aesthetic Appeal of Artworks	5
Supplemental Material for The Aesthetic Responsiveness Assessment (AReA) in Farsi Language: A Scale Validation and Cultural Adaptation Study	5
Artificial intelligence and art: Identifying the aesthetic judgment factors that distinguish human- and machine-generated artwork.	5
Supplemental Material for Sense-Sational Acting: Intuition in Actors Is Supported by Interoceptive, Exteroceptive, and Immersive Abilities	5
Conceptualizing, operationalizing, and assessing creativity in early childhood education and care settings: A scoping review.	5
More light about each other: Theater education as a context for developing social awareness and relationship skills.	5
Supplemental Material for Implicit Bias Against AI Creativity: Experimental Evidence From Mouse-Tracking Analysis	5
Altering balance perception through the agent’s expression: Happy face suppresses the inward bias.	4
Cognitive reappraisal and creative self-concept among higher education students: A latent class analysis.	4
A systematic approach to study preferences for complexity at different levels of order.	4
Supplemental Material for Artists’ Morality Colors Aesthetic Judgments of Their Paintings	4
Supplemental Material for Art Therapy With Women Survivors of Intimate Partner Violence: A Scoping Review	4
Self- and other-reported creativity and its association with personality in a cappella singers.	4
From story to heartbeats: Physiological synchrony in theater audiences.	4
Untrustworthy beauty: Beautification strategies cause female applicators to be perceived untrustworthy.	4
An exploratory study of historical representations of love in an art gallery exhibition.	4
Supplemental Material for Exploring Arts Engagement Among Black Americans: Insights on Flourishing and Barriers to Participation From a Mixed-Methods Survey	4
The spectrum of distributed creativity: Tango dancing and its generative modalities.	4
Beyond the here and now: Leveraging distal mental simulation for creative breakthroughs.	4
Poetry-elicited emotions: Reading experience and psychological mechanisms.	4
Does the typeface on album cover influence expectations and perception of music?	4
Supplemental Material for Thinking Behind the Doing of Dance: A Review of Cognitive Dance Studies	4
Facial drawing experience promotes ensemble coding abilities.	4
Green slime and orange blimps: A linguistic analysis of Nickelodeon’s kids’ choice awards.	4
Supplemental Material for Evaluation of Poetic Creativity: Predictors and the Role of Expertise—A Multilevel Approach	4
Melody in poems and songs: Fundamental statistical properties predict aesthetic evaluation.	4
Creativity across domains: Examining the role of imagination and self-regulation in early childhood creativity.	4
The influence of anger and anxiety on idea generation: Taking a closer look at integral and incidental emotion effects.	4
Supplemental Material for Art Has No Gender, Only Gender Bias	4
Supplemental Material for The Cognitive Brain Processes for Representing Form/Design Innovation and Function Innovation Product Designs	4
Supplemental Material for “It’s as Though I Woke Up”: Exploring the Experiences of Older Women With Constricted Life-Space Mobility in Group Tele-Drama Therapy	4
Effectiveness of drama-based therapies on mental health outcomes: A systematic review and meta-analysis of controlled studies.	4
Beyond togetherness: Interactional dissensus fosters creativity and tension in freely improvised musical duos.	4
Eyelight enhances perceived emotional responses to cinema.	4
Supplemental Material for The Role of Imagery and Emotion in the Aesthetic Appeal of Music, Poetry, and Paintings	4
How verbal cues help to see and understand art.	4
Decoding eye movements in naturalistic literary reading: Text-based predictions reveal aspects of narrative and aesthetic processing.	4
Gravitating toward the arts during the COVID-19 pandemic.	4
Supplemental Material for Judging Beauty and Liking: The Effects of Personal Intuitions and Task Instructions	4
The Goldsmiths Dance Sophistication Index (Gold-DSI): A psychometric tool to assess individual differences in dance experience.	4
It is heart to be creative: Insights from ambulatory monitoring.	3
The effect of visual recognition on listener choices when searching for music in playlists.	3
Judging beauty and liking: The effects of personal intuitions and task instructions.	3
Challenging magicians’ intuitive insights: The role of audience participation in experiencing a magic trick.	3
Far-to-near viewing tendencies in aesthetic viewing: Effects of figure information and central fixation bias in Chinese vertical-scroll landscape paintings.	3
Digital muses empowering artistic creativity: The impact of human–generative AI interaction on the creative experience.	3
An empirical assessment of cinematic continuity.	3
Supplemental Material for What Moves the Museum? Evidence on Indoor Spatial and Design Principles Shaping Affective and Aesthetic Responses	3
Mindfulness and malevolent creativity: A longitudinal study using cross-lagged panel model and network analysis.	3
Participation in intensive orchestral music training does not cause gains in executive functioning, self-perception, or attitudes toward school in young children.	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
Supplemental Material for Mixed Emotional Structure of Paintings	3
Review of Integrated care for the traumatized: A whole-person approach.	3
Supplemental Material for Far-to-Near Viewing Tendencies in Aesthetic Viewing: Effects of Figure Information and Central Fixation Bias in Chinese Vertical-Scroll Landscape Paintings	3
Music self-efficacy, self-esteem, and help-seeking orientation among amateur musicians who use online music tutorials.	3
The relationship between demographics, behavioral and experiential engagement factors, and the use of artistic creative activities to regulate emotions.	3
The association between elementary school students’ everyday creative experience, creative behavior, and daily emotions: A diary study.	3
Applying German word vectors to assess flexibility performance in the associative fluency task.	3
Relational processing in faces in paintings varying along a realism continuum.	3
One hundred and fifty years after Fechner: A view from the “middle of the storm”.	3
How momentary affect impacts retrospective evaluations of musical experiences.	3
Supplemental Material for Encapsulating Musicality: Development and Validation of the Music-Mindedness Questionnaire	3
Creative thinking and executive functions: Associations and training effects in adolescents.	3
Dancing through the uncanny valley: On the likeability of model-generated dance movements.	3
From pathogens to paintings: A preliminary investigation into the behavioral immune system’s influence on visual aesthetic appreciation and perception.	3
Worth the effort? Comparing different youtube vlog production styles in terms of viewers’ identification, parasocial response, immersion, and enjoyment.	3