Psychology of Aesthetics Creativity and the Arts

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The advantage of novel solutions on subsequent memory in insight problems.	75
Methods used to study audience experience of screen-based media: A scoping review.	62
Supplemental Material for Beauty Is in the Brain Networks of the Beholder: An Exploratory Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging Study	47
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	37
Supplemental Material for Were They Appealing to the Sun? On Why Cones and Tetrahedra Were So Popular at the Dawn of Civilization	31
How lasting is the impact of art?: An exploratory study of the incidence and duration of art exhibition-induced prosocial attitude change using a 2-week daily diary method.	31
Supplemental Material for Lost in Digitization: The Physical Format of Creative Work Affects Authenticity Perceptions	31
Supplemental Material for How Much Does Performance Quality Matter in Musical Emotion Induction? Main Effects and Interaction Effects With Listener Features	26
Supplemental Material for Conceptualizing and Measuring Ability Emotional Creativity	25
Supplemental Material for Creative Achievement and Individual Differences: Associations Across and Within the Domains of Creativity	24
Supplemental Material for Vigilance and Social Chills With Music: Evidence for Two Types of Musical Chills	23
Supplemental Material for An Exploratory Study of Historical Representations of Love in an Art Gallery Exhibition	23
Supplemental Material for Aesthetic Judgments of Music: Reliability, Consistency, Criteria, Self-Insight, and Expertise	23
Supplemental Material for Melody in Poems and Songs: Fundamental Statistical Properties Predict Aesthetic Evaluation	22
Supplemental Material for Visual Exploration Mediates the Influence of Personal Traits on Responses to Artworks in an Art Gallery Setting	22
Supplemental Material for Exploration of Discriminant Validity in Divergent Thinking Tasks: A Meta-Analysis	21
The good, the bad, and the complex: A mini meta-analysis of integrative complexity, entertainment, and perceptions of quality.	20
The textual features of fiction that appeal to readers: Emotion and abstractness.	19
Dancing through the uncanny valley: On the likeability of model-generated dance movements.	18
Supplemental Material for Achievement Goal Orientation and Employee Creativity: A Meta-Analysis	18
Engaged and confused: Aesthetic appreciation of live and screened contemporary dance.	18
Supplemental Material for Increasing Music Preference Through Guided Self-Framing: A Comparison of Historical and Imaginative Approaches	17
Supplemental Material for Further Validating the VAIAK: Defining a Psychometric Model, Configural Measurement Invariance, Reliability, and Practical Guidelines	17
Supplemental Material for A Multifactorial Model of Visual Imagery and Its Relationship to Creativity and the Vividness of Visual Imagery Questionnaire	17
Supplemental Material for Dynamic Complexity in Audiovisual Aesthetics	17

Supplemental Material for Who Likes the Grotesque? Mapping Individual Differences in Liking of Grotesque Artworks	17
Supplemental Material for Who Is the Most Creative of Them All?: Art Bias in Laypersons’ Explicit and Implicit Beliefs	17
Supplemental Material for Creative Mindset Induction Affects Beliefs but Not Creative Task Performance	16
Supplemental Material for The Aesthetic Quality Model: Complexity and Randomness as Foundations of Visual Beauty by Signaling Quality	16
Supplemental Material for Emotion, Embodiment, and Aesthetic Appraisal: The Impact of Interoceptive Abilities and Art Type	15
Temporal individual differences and creativity: An exploratory investigation.	15
Creative mindset induction affects beliefs but not creative task performance.	15
What types of daydreaming predict creativity? Laboratory and experience sampling evidence.	14
Impact of contextualizing information on aesthetic experience and psychophysiological responses to art in a museum: A naturalistic randomized controlled trial.	14
Differential effects of film genre on viewers’ absorption, identification, and enjoyment.	14
Do parents and children perceive creativity similarly? A dyadic study of creative mindsets.	14
Constraints to malevolent innovation in terrorist attacks.	13
Applying bodily sensation maps to art-elicited emotions: An explorative study.	13
Eye and lips in artistic profiles.	13
Art as communication: Fulfilling Gricean communication principles predicts aesthetic liking.	13
Comparing effects of visual thinking strategies in a classroom and a museum.	13
On the overlap between aesthetic disposition, cultural eclecticism, and openness: An interdisciplinary study.	13
What’s in a name? Book title salience and the psychology of fiction.	12
Creative idea forecasting: The effect of task exposure on idea evaluation.	12
Figuring out what they feel: Exposure to eudaimonic narrative fiction is related to mentalizing ability.	12
Stereo viewing upsets cinematic continuity: Filmic cuts are more salient in 3D than in 2D movies.	11
How constraints impact creativity: An interaction paradigm.	11
What is good is beautiful (and what isn’t, isn’t): How moral character affects perceived facial attractiveness.	11
Increasing music preference through guided self-framing: A comparison of historical and imaginative approaches.	11
The time-course of fixations in representational paintings: A cross-cultural study.	11
The impact of fiction reading on social outcomes: A 4-week randomized controlled study.	10
The utility of divergent and convergent thinking in the problem construction processes during creative problem-solving.	10
A computational approach to studying aesthetic judgments of ambiguous artworks.	10
Exploration of discriminant validity in divergent thinking tasks: A meta-analysis.	10
Trust the process: The effects of iteration in children’s creative processes on their creative products.	10
Board games enhance creativity: Evidence from two studies.	10
How much does performance quality matter in musical emotion induction? Main effects and interaction effects with listener features.	10
Understanding metaphor in art: Distinguishing literal giants from metaphorical challenges.	10
The effect of visual recognition on listener choices when searching for music in playlists.	10
Personality traits as predictors of work creativity: A comparison between self- and other-reports.	10
Applying German word vectors to assess flexibility performance in the associative fluency task.	10
Creative thinking and executive functions: Associations and training effects in adolescents.	9
In the dark cube: Movie theater context enhances the valuation and aesthetic experience of watching films.	9
The Aesthetic Responsiveness Assessment (AReA): A screening tool to assess individual differences in responsiveness to art in English and German.	9
A novel coding scheme for assessing responses in divergent thinking: An embodied approach.	9
The role of imagery and emotion in the aesthetic appeal of music, poetry, and paintings.	9
Narrative aesthetic absorption in audiobooks is predicted by blink rate and acoustic features.	9
Processing fluency, processing style, and aesthetic response to artistic photographs.	9
Individual differences in aesthetic engagement and proneness to aesthetic chill: Associations with stress-related growth orientation.	9
Musical ethnocultural identity, happiness, and internalizing symptoms in youth.	9
The visual language of pain: The role of rendering style and pain type in aesthetic and empathetic appraisals of painful images.	9
The role of transparency in color preferences: Sweetness expectation and preference for translucency.	9
Original photographic art induces self-transcendent emotions.	9
Creative minecrafters: Cognitive and personality determinants of creativity, novelty, and usefulness in minecraft.	8
Does it kill the imagination dead? The effect of film versus reading on mental imagery.	8

Differentiating types of cinematographic shot changes by cut through an EEG power spectral analysis.	8
Beauty is in the brain networks of the beholder: An exploratory functional magnetic resonance imaging study.	8
Editors' introduction August 2022.	8
Reliability and validity of a novel Ambulatory Battery of Creativity (ABC).	8
The role of asking more complex questions in creative thinking.	8
A divergent approach to pareidolias—Exploring creativity in a novel way.	8
Lost in digitization: The physical format of creative work affects authenticity perceptions.	8
Participation in intensive orchestral music training does not cause gains in executive functioning, self-perception, or attitudes toward school in young children.	8
Mental imagery in aesthetic appreciation and the understanding of the self and others.	8
Differentiating the visual aesthetics of the sublime and the beautiful: Selective effects of stimulus size, height, and color on sublimity and beauty ratings in photographs.	8
Preference for curvature in paintings extends to museum context.	8
Shaping film: A quantitative formal analysis of contemporary empathy-eliciting Hollywood cinema.	7
Supplemental Material for Motivation to Make Music Matters: Daily Autonomous Motivation, Flow, and Well-Being in Hobby Musicians	7
Prosocial motivation and creativity in the arts and sciences: Qualitative and quantitative evidence.	7
Music self-efficacy, self-esteem, and help-seeking orientation among amateur musicians who use online music tutorials.	7
The aesthetic quality model: Complexity and randomness as foundations of visual beauty by signaling quality.	7
Does the frame of an artwork matter? Cultural framing and aesthetic judgments for abstract and representational art.	7
Visual preference for abstract curvature and for interior spaces: Beyond undergraduate student samples.	7
Awe is associated with creative personality, convergent creativity, and everyday creativity.	7
A survey of the conceptual structure of aesthetic response to sports.	7
Imaginings from an unfamiliar world: Narrative engagement with a new musical system.	7
Music-evoked pleasantness modulates theta synchronization within a fronto-temporal music-related network.	7
The impact of top performers in creative groups.	7
Universality and specificity of the kindchenschema: A cross-cultural study on cute rectangles.	7
The impact of social exclusion on malevolent creativity: The mediating role of prosocial motivation.	7
Visual perception of the built environment in virtual reality: A systematic characterization of human aesthetic experience in spaces with curved boundaries.	7
Conceptualizing and measuring ability emotional creativity.	7
Supplemental Material for Implicit Responses in the Judgment of Attractiveness in Faces With Differing Levels of Makeup	6
Supplemental Material for Paths to Transformation Across Contemporary Reading Practices: The Role of Motivations and Genre Preferences	6
Supplemental Material for Self-Regulation for Creative Activity: The Same or Different Across Domains?	6
Supplemental Material for Color’s Perceptual Diversity and Categorical Harmony Improve Aesthetic Experience	6
Supplemental Material for Is There a General “Art Fatigue” Effect? A Cross-Paradigm, Cross-Cultural Study of Repeated Art Viewing in the Laboratory	6
Supplemental Material for Automated Feedback and Creativity: On the Role of Metacognitive Monitoring in Divergent Thinking	6
Supplemental Material for Does the Frame of an Artwork Matter? Cultural Framing and Aesthetic Judgments for Abstract and Representational Art	6
Supplemental Material for When Rule Breaking in Art Falls Flat: Cultural Tightness Deflates Deviant Artists’ Impact	6
Supplemental Material for A Computational Approach to Studying Aesthetic Judgments of Ambiguous Artworks	6
Supplemental Material for Music-Evoked Pleasantness Modulates Theta Synchronization Within a Fronto-Temporal Music-Related Network	6
Experiencing musical beauty: Emotional subtypes and their physiological and musico-acoustic correlates.	5
Supplemental Material for A New Test for Assessing Creative Flexibility of Perceptual Interpretation: The Figural Interpretation Quest	5
Supplemental Material for Is Humor Temperament Associated With Being Creative, Original, and Funny? A Tale of Three Studies	5
Supplemental Material for A View Worth Talking About: The Influence of Social Interaction on Aesthetic Experience and Well-Being Outcomes in the Gallery	5
Supplemental Material for Gender Differences in Creative Potential: A Meta-Analysis of Mean Differences and Variability	5
Supplemental Material for Methods Used to Study Audience Experience of Screen-Based Media: A Scoping Review	5
Seeking (dis)order: Ordering appeals but slight disorder and complex order trigger interest.	5
Supplemental Material for Beyond the Here and Now: Leveraging Distal Mental Simulation for Creative Breakthroughs	5
Supplemental Material for Presenting TaMuNaBe: A Taxonomy of Museum Navigation Behaviors	5
Supplemental Material for D-I-WHAT? Identifying Creative Domains in Do-It-Yourself Videos on YouTube	5
Supplemental Material for How Lasting is the Impact of Art?: An Exploratory Study of the Incidence and Duration of Art Exhibition-Induced Prosocial Attitude Change Using a 2-Week Daily Diary Method	5
Supplemental Material for Assessment of Creativity: Adaptation and Validation of the Runco Ideational Behavior Scale for Vietnamese Students	5
A review of event-related potential measuring aesthetic processing in visual aesthetic experience research.	5
Supplemental Material for Type of Art Expertise Matters: Practical Experts Show a Greater Curvature Preference for Three-Dimensional Shapes Than Theoretical Experts	5
Liking for abstract and representational art: National identity as an art appreciation heuristic.	5
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	5
Editors’ introduction, February 2023.	5
The model of failed foregrounding.	5
Supplemental Material for Pupil Dilation Is Driven by Perceptions of Naturalness of Color Composition in Paintings	5
Supplemental Material for Object-Based Practice Effects Recover the Graphic Object Concept in Alzheimer’s Dementia	5
What a great feeling! The “experiencing art at school” program to engage children in visual arts and improve their emotional states.	5
Supplemental Material for The Indestructible Nature of Art	5
Supplemental Material for Effect of a Creative Dance-Based Physical Education Intervention on Primary School Children’s Creativity and Self-Regulation: A Pilot Study	5
Supplemental Material for Development and Validation of the Mechanisms of Engagement in the Arts and Humanities Scales	5
Supplemental Material for More Recruitment but Inefficient Performance: The Effects of Creativity Anxiety on Consciously Augmenting State Creativity in the Figural Domain	5
Perceiving versus scrutinizing: Viewers do not default to awareness of small spatiotemporal inconsistencies in movie edits.	4
Physiological synchrony in audiences of live concerts.	4
An improved taxonomy of creativity measures based on salient task attributes.	4
Radically revolutionary or pretty flowers? The impact of curatorial narrative of artistic deviance on perceived artist influence.	4
Participation in life-review playback theater enhances mental health of community-dwelling older adults: A randomized controlled trial.	4
The effect of self-expansion on creativity: Examining the role of novelty experiences.	4
Self-awareness of musical ability.	4
Exploring barriers to and drivers of participatory arts engagement in early adolescence.	4
Review of Integrated care for the traumatized: A whole-person approach.	4
Motivation to make music matters: Daily autonomous motivation, flow, and well-being in hobby musicians.	4
From “a nothing” to something special: Art as a space of holding attunement in the creative experience of Holocaust survivor artists.	4
All that glitters is gold: Development and validation of the Product Aesthetics Inventory (PAI).	4
An initial examination of computer programs as creative works.	4
What are the benefits of mind wandering to creativity?	4
The pleasures of reading fiction explained by flow, presence, identification, suspense, and cognitive involvement.	4
Neuroticism, musical emotion regulation, musical coping, mental health, and musicianship characteristics.	4
One hundred and fifty years after Fechner: A view from the “middle of the storm”.	4
Professional status matters: Differences in flow proneness between professional and amateur contemporary musicians.	4

Combining typeface and color to prime specific taste expectations.	4
Reciprocal relations between autonomous motivation and creativity: A longitudinal investigation of Chinese children and adolescents.	4
Less is more: The effect of visiting duration on the perceived restorativeness of museums.	4
Why Boulder Springs has no boulders and no springs: Evolved landscape preferences and naming conventions.	4
Further validating the VAIAK: Defining a psychometric model, configural measurement invariance, reliability, and practical guidelines.	4
Evaluation of aesthetic pleasure in schizophrenia spectrum disorders, using the eye-tracking methodology.	4
Creative self-enhancement in a team context: The role of gender, creative self-concept, and trait hypercompetitiveness.	4
The creative self: Do people distinguish creative self-perceptions, efficacy, and personal identity?	4
Effect of hedonic contrasts on movie appreciation.	4
Don't throw the “bad” ideas away! Multidimensional top scoring increases reliability of divergent thinking tasks.	4
Focus of attention affects togetherness experiences and body interactivity in piano duos.	4
Not just for decoration: How the arts complement science, technology, engineering, and mathematics learning.	4
Impact of Veteran Journeys opera on audience member attitudes related to veterans with posttraumatic stress or unstable housing.	4
How do examples impact divergent thinking? The interplay between associative and executive processes.	4
Developmental trends in creative ability: A cross-sectional examination of figural and verbal domains across the school-age years.	4
Sharing research outcomes with traditional owners.	4
How stable is the creative self-concept? A latent state-trait analysis.	3
The influence of culture on the viewing of Western and East Asian paintings.	3
Predictors of cognitive and motor creativity in childhood.	3
Personally significant forms of discrete experiences and recurring activities in the arts and humanities in a representative sample of U.S. residents.	3
Free association ability distinguishes highly creative artists from scientists: Findings from the Big-C Project.	3
(Not) alone in the museum: Implicit social influence on art appreciation.	3
Groovin’ to the cultural beat: Preferences for danceable music represent cultural affordances for high-arousal negative emotions.	3
Patterns of psychological vulnerabilities and resources in artists and nonartists.	3
Multilingual semantic distance: Automatic verbal creativity assessment in many languages.	3
Editors’ introduction to part 2 of the special issue on racial and cultural issues.	3
Touch the color change: Representation of color change using tactile grating patterns.	3
Beyond the big personality dimensions: Consistency and specificity of associations between the Dark Triad traits and creativity.	3
Reflection in the creative process of early adolescents: The mediating roles of creative metacognition, self-efficacy, and self-concept.	3
Songs as a way of listening to cultures across generations? A comparison of Canada and the United States through their famous songs from 1975 to 2017.	3
The structure of musical dislikes.	3
Cross-cultural investigation into the associations of fiction reading habits with mentalizing skills and stereotyping among adults in the United Kingdom and Japan.	3
Do we need metacognition for creativity? A necessary condition analysis of creative metacognition.	3
The creative mind in daily life: How cognitive and affective experiences relate to creative thinking and behavior.	3
What perfume makes us feel: A self-report evaluation of perfume-related Olfactory Aesthetic Experience Scale.	3
Smooth as glass and hard as stone? On the conceptual structure of the aesthetics of materials.	3
An empirical assessment of cinematic continuity.	3
Interdependencies between openness and creativity of fifth graders.	3
Is a “real” artwork better than a reproduction? A meta-analysis of the genuineness effect.	3
Is stereotypical masculinity and femininity in women associated with their creativity? An examination of gender roles and creativity.	3
Lofty aims, limited actors, fewer artifacts: A sociocultural analysis of Confucian conceptions of creativity and innovation.	3
Color’s perceptual diversity and categorical harmony improve aesthetic experience.	3
Emotion, embodiment, and aesthetic appraisal: The impact of interoceptive abilities and art type.	3
Babies’ engagement in music theater performances: A microanalytical study of the aesthetic experiences in early childhood.	2
Editors’ introduction May 2022.	2
The involvement of conflict monitoring and rewards processing in the appropriateness evaluation of creativity: An event-related potential-based analysis.	2
Free but controlled mind creates through reference: The role of shifting and idea referencing in individuals with different working memory and mind wandering profiles.	2
Content warnings reduce aesthetic appreciation of visual art.	2
Machine creativity: Aversion, appreciation, or indifference?	2
Judging beauty and liking: The effects of personal intuitions and task instructions.	2
“I may look fake but I’m real where it counts”: Positivity and authenticity in the songs of Dolly Parton.	2
Supplemental Material for Behavioral Indices of Effort Discounting Are Related to Perseverance on a Creativity Task and to Bipolar Disorder	2
Back where I belong: Rereading as a risk-free pathway to social connection.	2
Supplemental Material for The Visual Language of Pain: The Role of Rendering Style and Pain Type in Aesthetic and Empathetic Appraisals of Painful Images	2
Editors’ introduction, February 2022.	2
Open to laugh: The role of openness to experience in humor production ability.	2
Pupil dilation is driven by perceptions of naturalness of color composition in paintings.	2
Review of The Science-Music Borderlands: Reckoning with the Past and Imagining the Future.	2
Development and validation of the Mechanisms of Engagement in the Arts and Humanities scales.	2
Testing equal odds in creativity research.	2
How momentary affect impacts retrospective evaluations of musical experiences.	2
Supplemental Material for Bridging the Gap Through Common Features: The Semantic Structure of Creative Metaphors	2
Is there a general “art fatigue” effect? A cross-paradigm, cross-cultural study of repeated art viewing in the laboratory.	2
What makes textures beautiful? Effects of shared orientation.	2
Supplemental Material for Does Divergent Thinking Relate to Expertise? Introducing a Novel Test of Creative Ideation in Music	2
Increasing creativity through the development of thinking skills: Combinatorial thinking of viola players.	2
Exploration of impact of incubation on creativity: A meta-analysis.	2
Who are the magicians? Their personality traits.	2
From Perugino to Picasso: Holistic processing of faces in paintings.	2
Vigilance and social chills with music: Evidence for two types of musical chills.	2
Themes and trends in creativity research between 1894 and 2022: A topic modeling approach.	2
Editors’ introduction.	2
How perfect are imperfect rhymes? Effects of phonological similarity and verse context on rhyme perception.	2
The aesthetic experience of live concerts: Self-reports and psychophysiology.	2
Eye color is more important than skin color for clothing color aesthetics.	1
Creativity in digitally mediated times: How digital tools support creativity across domains.	1
Supplemental Material for Inspired by Art: Higher Aesthetic Appeal Elicits Increased Felt Inspiration in a Creative Writing Task	1
Staged and gendered pathways from parenting behaviors to Chinese students’ creative thinking: The roles of autonomous motivation and creative self-efficacy.	1
Story writing and the “play of imagination”.	1
Mind wandering outside the box—About the role of off-task thoughts and their assessment during creative incubation.	1
Supplemental Material for Big-C Creativity in Artists and Scientists is Associated With More Random Global but Less Random Local fMRI Functional Connectivity	1
Supplemental Material for Personality of Nobel Prize Laureates: Differences Across Domains and Relationship to Public Recognition	1
Investigating the relationship between need satisfaction and creative performance: Intrinsically motivated students value creativity.	1
Cultural diversity in oculometric parameters when viewing art and non-art.	1
Supplemental Material for Creative Thinking and Executive Functions: Associations and Training Effects in Adolescents	1
Does reading a single short story of literary fiction improve social-cognitive skills? Testing the priming hypothesis.	1
The use of drawing as an emotion regulation technique with children.	1
Participatory design curriculum promotes engineering design, critical thinking, and creativity for students from kindergarten to 12th grade.	1
Cultural frame-dependent differences in artistic appraisals between White and Black Americans.	1
The word–sentence–construction task versus the verbal fluency task: Capturing features of scientific creativity via semantic networks.	1
Supplemental Material for Appreciating Paintings of the Virtuous: The Influence of Perceived Artist Morality on Aesthetic Judgment of Their Works	1
Supplemental Material for Processing Fluency, Processing Style, and Aesthetic Response to Artistic Photographs	1
Temporal-and orientation-based properties of the relationship between imagination-and observation-based face drawings.	1
Creativity and unethicality: A systematic review and meta-analysis.	1
Supplemental Material for Smooth as Glass and Hard as Stone? On the Conceptual Structure of the Aesthetics of Materials	1