Psychology of Aesthetics Creativity and the Arts

Article	Citations
What’s in a name? Book title salience and the psychology of fiction.	40
Supplemental Material for The Aesthetic Quality Model: Complexity and Randomness as Foundations of Visual Beauty by Signaling Quality	36
Supplemental Material for Who Likes the Grotesque? Mapping Individual Differences in Liking of Grotesque Artworks	36
Editors' introduction August 2022.	36
Supplemental Material for Increasing Music Preference Through Guided Self-Framing: A Comparison of Historical and Imaginative Approaches	35
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
Anterior insula is an integrative hub in aesthetic judgment.	31
Parent–child creative activities are associated with children’s positive affect and relationships quality.	28
Engaged and confused: Aesthetic appreciation of live and screened contemporary dance.	28
A computational approach to studying aesthetic judgments of ambiguous artworks.	27
Supplemental Material for Gender Differences in Creative Potential: A Meta-Analysis of Mean Differences and Variability	25
Mental imagery in aesthetic appreciation and the understanding of the self and others.	25
On the overlap between aesthetic disposition, cultural eclecticism, and openness: An interdisciplinary study.	25
Supplemental Material for A New Test for Assessing Creative Flexibility of Perceptual Interpretation: The Figural Interpretation Quest	24
Supplemental Material for A Computational Approach to Studying Aesthetic Judgments of Ambiguous Artworks	24
Supplemental Material for Diminishing Creative Returns: Predicting Optimal Creative Performance via Individual Differences in Executive Functioning	23
Supplemental Material for A Brush With Scandal: How Artist Morality Shapes Aesthetic Preferences	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	21
The effect of imagery on the comprehension and aesthetic appreciation of Chinese ancient poetry.	21
Professional status matters: Differences in flow proneness between professional and amateur contemporary musicians.	20
Supplemental Material for Type of Art Expertise Matters: Practical Experts Show a Greater Curvature Preference for Three-Dimensional Shapes Than Theoretical Experts	20
Supplemental Material for A View Worth Talking About: The Influence of Social Interaction on Aesthetic Experience and Well-Being Outcomes in the Gallery	20
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	20
Color’s perceptual diversity and categorical harmony improve aesthetic experience.	20
Exploring barriers to and drivers of participatory arts engagement in early adolescence.	19

Touch the color change: Representation of color change using tactile grating patterns.	19
How do examples impact divergent thinking? The interplay between associative and executive processes.	18
The influence of culture on the viewing of Western and East Asian paintings.	18
The effect of self-expansion on creativity: Examining the role of novelty experiences.	17
An improved taxonomy of creativity measures based on salient task attributes.	17
Supplemental Material for Feeling Socially (Dis)Engaging Emotions With Favorite Music: The Role of Self-Construal Across Cultures	17
Bias against artificial intelligence in visual art: A meta-analysis.	17
Supplemental Material for “Memorable Speech”: Formal and Affective Determinants of Memory for Poetry	17
Focus of attention affects togetherness experiences and body interactivity in piano duos.	17
Supplemental Material for A Time and a Place for Art Perception	16
A brush with scandal: How artist morality shapes aesthetic preferences.	16
Supplemental Material for Photographs That Repulse or Entice: Sense-Making and Emotional Experiencing of Artistic Photographs	16
Supplemental Material for Original Photographic Art Induces Self-Transcendent Emotions	16
Eye color is more important than skin color for clothing color aesthetics.	16
Supplemental Material for Toward Equitable Creativity Self-Assessment: Measurement Invariance and Mean Differences Across Ethnicity in the Kaufman Domains of Creativity Scale	16
Supplemental Material for A Systematic Approach to Study Preferences for Complexity at Different Levels of Order	15
Measuring storyworld possible selves in depression stories: Linguistic features, personal relevance, and the narrative experience.	15
Staged and gendered pathways from parenting behaviors to Chinese students’ creative thinking: The roles of autonomous motivation and creative self-efficacy.	15
Supplemental Material for Effectiveness of Drama-Based Therapies on Mental Health Outcomes: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Controlled Studies	14
Supplemental Material for Effect of Hedonic Contrasts on Movie Appreciation	14
Assessing the robustness of automated scoring of divergent thinking tasks with adversarial examples.	14
Object-based practice effects recover the graphic object concept in Alzheimer’s dementia.	14
Editor’s introduction.	14
Review of The Psychology of Creative Performance and Expertise.	14
Can young children control their creativity? Examining the role of executive function in modifying children’s creative processes.	14
Does flower preference differ across cultures? A study of Czech and Kenyan populations.	14
An itsy bitsy audience: Live performance facilitates infants’ attention and heart rate synchronization.	13
Cathedrals of sound: Predictors of the sublime and the beautiful in music, images, and music with images.	13
Creative achievement and individual differences: Associations across and within the domains of creativity.	13
Adaptation of the Runco Ideational Behavior Scale into Turkish: A confirmatory factor analysis and Rasch study.	13
The relation between the aesthetic perception of objects and the focus in visual attention across different stages of ego development.	13
Makeup works by modifying factors of facial beauty.	13
The role of expertise in visual exploration and aesthetic judgment of residential building façades: An eye-tracking study.	13
Supplemental Material for Imaginings From an Unfamiliar World: Narrative Engagement With a New Musical System	13
Implicit aesthetic processing and emotional priming: A functional magnetic resonance imaging study on artistic and nonartistic stimuli.	13
Do you chill when I chill? A cross-cultural study of strong emotional responses to music.	13
The Aesthetic Responsiveness Assessment (AReA) in Farsi language: A scale validation and cultural adaptation study.	12
Were they appealing to the sun? On why cones and tetrahedra were so popular at the dawn of civilization.	12
Editors’ Introduction to Part 1 of the Special Issue on Racial and Cultural Issues.	12
Editors’ introduction April 2024.	12
A systematic quantitative review of divergent thinking assessments.	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	11
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	11
The art of feeling different: Exploring the diversity of emotions experienced during an art museum visit.	11
Supplemental Material for Staged and Gendered Pathways From Parenting Behaviors to Chinese Students’ Creative Thinking: The Roles of Autonomous Motivation and Creative Self-Efficacy	11
Supplemental Material for Books or Films, Ephemeral or Habitual? Untangling the Path From Narrative Fiction to Social Cognition	11
Supplemental Material for How Do Examples Impact Divergent Thinking? The Interplay Between Associative and Executive Processes	11
The complementary roles of intuition and logic in creative design ideation.	11
How filmmakers guide the eye: The effect of average shot length on intersubject attentional synchrony.	11
Supplemental Material for Spirit Behind Appearance: Facial Motion Increases Facial Attractiveness Through Perceived Vitality	11

The relationship between mobile phone use and creative ideation among college students: The roles of critical thinking and creative self-efficacy.	11
Artists have superior local and global processing abilities but show a preference for initially drawing globally.	11
Character strengths afforded by arts engagement during adolescence: The development and validation of the Creative Artistic Activities Strengths Affordances Scale.	10
Supplemental Material for A Meta-Analysis of the Effects of Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation on Creative Thinking	10
“Like static noise in a beautiful landscape”: A mixed-methods approach to rationales and features of disliked voices in popular music.	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 Visuospatial Components of Drawing Skill Correlate With Mental Transformation Performance	10
The relationship between divergent thinking, emotional regulation in the arts, and cognitive reappraisal.	10
A Model of Creative Aging (MOCA): Unlocking the potential of constraints for creativity in older adults.	10
Editors’ introduction.	10
Acknowledgment of Ad Hoc Reviewers	10
Overexcitabilities and bidirectional development in playfulness and creative potential among kindergarten children.	10
Automated scoring of figural creativity using a convolutional neural network.	10
Subjective emotional instances surpass formal perceptual features in shaping the aesthetic appeal of artworks.	10
Supplemental Material for The Temporal Instability of Aesthetic Preferences	9
Supplemental Material for Aesthetic Preferences Among Spatial Patterns: Large-Scale Experiment, Comprehensive Exploration, and a Three-Component Regularity-Based Model	9
Feeling socially (dis)engaging emotions with favorite music: The role of self-construal across cultures.	9
Supplemental Material for The Appeal of Insight: Why Riddles and Whodunits Captivate Us	9
Art has no gender, only gender bias.	9
Automated feedback and creativity: On the role of metacognitive monitoring in divergent thinking.	9
The brain entropy basis of schizotypal personality and its relation to fantasy proneness.	9
Aesthetic judgments of music: Reliability, consistency, criteria, self-insight, and expertise.	9
Beyond the single picture: Aesthetic experiences with photography series in an exhibition context.	9
Increasing music preference through guided self-framing: A comparison of historical and imaginative approaches.	8
D-I-WHAT? Identifying creative domains in do-it-yourself videos on YouTube.	8
Trust the process: The effects of iteration in children’s creative processes on their creative products.	8
Methods used to study audience experience of screen-based media: A scoping review.	8
Supplemental Material for How Much Does Performance Quality Matter in Musical Emotion Induction? Main Effects and Interaction Effects With Listener Features	8
Universality and specificity of the kindchenschema: A cross-cultural study on cute rectangles.	8
Supplemental Material for Emotion, Embodiment, and Aesthetic Appraisal: The Impact of Interoceptive Abilities and Art Type	8
Supplemental Material for From Momentary to Long-Term Affect: How Affective Processes Shape Poetic Creativity	8
Supplemental Material for Creative Mindset Induction Affects Beliefs but Not Creative Task Performance	8
Narrative aesthetic absorption in audiobooks is predicted by blink rate and acoustic features.	8
Supplemental Material for Visual Exploration Mediates the Influence of Personal Traits on Responses to Artworks in an Art Gallery Setting	8
Figuring out what they feel: Exposure to eudaimonic narrative fiction is related to mentalizing ability.	7
Moving me, moving you: Emotional expressivity, empathy, and prior experience shape whole-body movement preferences.	7
Reliability and validity of a novel Ambulatory Battery of Creativity (ABC).	7
What a great feeling! The “experiencing art at school” program to engage children in visual arts and improve their emotional states.	7
Editors’ introduction, February 2023.	7
Imaginings from an unfamiliar world: Narrative engagement with a new musical system.	7
Processing fluency, processing style, and aesthetic response to artistic photographs.	7
Understanding metaphor in art: Distinguishing literal giants from metaphorical challenges.	7
Visual perception of the built environment in virtual reality: A systematic characterization of human aesthetic experience in spaces with curved boundaries.	7
Supplemental Material for Is Humor Temperament Associated With Being Creative, Original, and Funny? A Tale of Three Studies	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
Both science and art elicit emotional well-being: An examination of creativity and mood.	7
Neuroarchitecture of aesthetic experience: Investigating brain oscillations for interior spaces with curved boundaries in virtual reality.	7
The time-course of fixations in representational paintings: A cross-cultural study.	7
Supplemental Material for Beyond the Here and Now: Leveraging Distal Mental Simulation for Creative Breakthroughs	7
Review of Why theatre education matters: Understanding its cognitive, social, and emotional benefits.	7
Lofty aims, limited actors, fewer artifacts: A sociocultural analysis of Confucian conceptions of creativity and innovation.	7
Less is more: The effect of visiting duration on the perceived restorativeness of museums.	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
Patterns of psychological vulnerabilities and resources in artists and nonartists.	6
Vigilance and social chills with music: Evidence for two types of musical chills.	6
Review of Mary Climbs In: The Journeys of Bruce Springsteen’s Women Fans.	6
Supplemental Material for Automated Feedback and Creativity: On the Role of Metacognitive Monitoring in Divergent Thinking	6
How stable is the creative self-concept? A latent state-trait analysis.	6
Supplemental Material for Movement-Based Music in the Classroom: Investigating the Effects of Music Programs Incorporating Body Movement in Primary School Children	6
Content warnings reduce aesthetic appreciation of visual art.	6
Development and initial validation of the State Spontaneity Scale.	6
Multilingual semantic distance: Automatic verbal creativity assessment in many languages.	6
Evaluation of aesthetic pleasure in schizophrenia spectrum disorders, using the eye-tracking methodology.	6
Visual attention bias for self-made artworks.	6
Supplemental Material for Challenging Magicians’ Intuitive Insights: The Role of Audience Participation in Experiencing a Magic Trick	6
Don't throw the “bad” ideas away! Multidimensional top scoring increases reliability of divergent thinking tasks.	6
Supplemental Material for D-I-WHAT? Identifying Creative Domains in Do-It-Yourself Videos on YouTube	6
Supplemental Material for Paths to Transformation Across Contemporary Reading Practices: The Role of Motivations and Genre Preferences	6
When the painting meets its musical inspiration: The impact of multimodal art experience on aesthetic enjoyment and subjective well-being in the museum.	5
Some like it sharp: Song familiarity influences musical preference for absolute tuning.	5
The temporal instability of aesthetic preferences.	5
Supplemental Material for The Usual Miracles: How Narrative Style Affects the Processing of Counterintuitive Concepts	5
Preference for paintings is also affected by curvature.	5
Supplemental Material for Cultural Diversity in Oculometric Parameters When Viewing Art and Non-Art	5
Supplemental Material for Laughing Across the Bridge: The Role of Associative Abilities in Humor	5
Fifty years later and still working: Rediscovering Paulus et al’s (1970) automated scoring of divergent thinking tests.	5
Association between music use and depression among college students: The moderating roles of regulatory emotional self-efficacy and gender.	5
Dual pathways in creative writing processes.	5
Acting gender: Actors’ experiences of gender role conformity and hopes for their characters.	5

Does divergent thinking relate to expertise? Introducing a novel test of creative ideation in music.	5
Subjective understanding boosts contemporary art appreciation among primary school students.	5
Modality influences perceived film suspense but not time perception.	5
Back where I belong: Rereading as a risk-free pathway to social connection.	5
The aesthetic experience of live concerts: Self-reports and psychophysiology.	5
Together in the dark?: Investigating the understanding and feeling of intended emotions between viewers and professional artists at the Venice Biennale.	5
Audience responses to diverse superheroes: The roles of gender and race in forging connections with media characters in superhero franchise films.	5
More light about each other: Theater education as a context for developing social awareness and relationship skills.	5
Identifying the functional relationships between creativity and its constituents: A task for response surface analysis?	5
Conceptualizing, operationalizing, and assessing creativity in early childhood education and care settings: A scoping review.	5
Supplemental Material for The Effect of Implicit Theories of Human Beauty and Perceived Pressure on Cosmetic Consumption	5
Supplemental Material for The Aesthetic Responsiveness Assessment (AReA) in Farsi Language: A Scale Validation and Cultural Adaptation Study	4
Artificial intelligence and art: Identifying the aesthetic judgment factors that distinguish human- and machine-generated artwork.	4
Neural dissociation between computational and subjective image complexity.	4
Beauty lies in the eye of the mindful: Does mindfulness intensify aesthetic experience by freeing working memory resources?	4
Beyond the here and now: Leveraging distal mental simulation for creative breakthroughs.	4
Supplemental Material for Judging Beauty and Liking: The Effects of Personal Intuitions and Task Instructions	4
From story to heartbeats: Physiological synchrony in theater audiences.	4
The spectrum of distributed creativity: Tango dancing and its generative modalities.	4
Pitch height and mode have asymmetrical effects on the perception of mixed emotions in major and minor seventh chords.	4
Mood and creativity in children: Differential impacts on convergent and divergent thinking.	4
Supplemental Material for Sense-Sational Acting: Intuition in Actors Is Supported by Interoceptive, Exteroceptive, and Immersive Abilities	4
An exploratory study of historical representations of love in an art gallery exhibition.	4
Supplemental Material for A Randomized Study of El Sistema-Inspired Youth Music Education Programming: Evidence Addressing Executive Function and Social–Emotional Learning	4
Cognitive reappraisal and creative self-concept among higher education students: A latent class analysis.	4
The influence of anger and anxiety on idea generation: Taking a closer look at integral and incidental emotion effects.	4
Supplemental Material for Subjective Emotional Instances Surpass Formal Perceptual Features in Shaping the Aesthetic Appeal of Artworks	4
Altering balance perception through the agent’s expression: Happy face suppresses the inward bias.	4
Visual arts activities relate to interest and cortisol for children in Head Start preschool.	4
Supplemental Material for More Light About Each Other: Theater Education as a Context for Developing Social Awareness and Relationship Skills	4
A systematic approach to study preferences for complexity at different levels of order.	4
What counts as aesthetics in science? A bibliometric analysis and visualization of the scientific literature from 1970 to 2018.	4
Poetry-elicited emotions: Reading experience and psychological mechanisms.	4
Supplemental Material for The Cognitive Brain Processes for Representing Form/Design Innovation and Function Innovation Product Designs	4
Does the typeface on album cover influence expectations and perception of music?	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
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
Eyelight enhances perceived emotional responses to cinema.	3
Inspired by art: Higher aesthetic appeal elicits increased felt inspiration in a creative writing task.	3
Supplemental Material for Art Has No Gender, Only Gender Bias	3
The Goldsmiths Dance Sophistication Index (Gold-DSI): A psychometric tool to assess individual differences in dance experience.	3
Melody in poems and songs: Fundamental statistical properties predict aesthetic evaluation.	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
The relationship between demographics, behavioral and experiential engagement factors, and the use of artistic creative activities to regulate emotions.	3
Supplemental Material for Bridging the Gap Through Common Features: The Semantic Structure of Creative Metaphors	3
Participation in intensive orchestral music training does not cause gains in executive functioning, self-perception, or attitudes toward school in young children.	3
Individual differences in aesthetic engagement and proneness to aesthetic chill: Associations with stress-related growth orientation.	3
Self- and other-reported creativity and its association with personality in a cappella singers.	3
Supplemental Material for Melody in Poems and Songs: Fundamental Statistical Properties Predict Aesthetic Evaluation	3
It is heart to be creative: Insights from ambulatory monitoring.	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
Supplemental Material for Does Shared Experience Change the Aesthetic Appreciation of Art? Evidence From an Exploratory Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging Study	3
How verbal cues help to see and understand art.	3
Gravitating toward the arts during the COVID-19 pandemic.	3
Supplemental Material for Exploring Arts Engagement Among Black Americans: Insights on Flourishing and Barriers to Participation From a Mixed-Methods Survey	3
Supplemental Material for Evaluation of Poetic Creativity: Predictors and the Role of Expertise—A Multilevel Approach	3
Edit blindness is not related to immersion and presence in Hollywood movies.	3
Music self-efficacy, self-esteem, and help-seeking orientation among amateur musicians who use online music tutorials.	3
Creative idea forecasting: The effect of task exposure on idea evaluation.	3
Creative thinking and executive functions: Associations and training effects in adolescents.	3
Worth the effort? Comparing different youtube vlog production styles in terms of viewers’ identification, parasocial response, immersion, and enjoyment.	3
Supplemental Material for Exploration of Discriminant Validity in Divergent Thinking Tasks: A Meta-Analysis	3
Supplemental Material for Thinking Behind the Doing of Dance: A Review of Cognitive Dance Studies	3
Automated scoring of creative problem solving with large language models: A comparison of originality and quality ratings.	3
Green slime and orange blimps: A linguistic analysis of Nickelodeon’s kids’ choice awards.	3
Effectiveness of drama-based therapies on mental health outcomes: A systematic review and meta-analysis of controlled studies.	3
Untrustworthy beauty: Beautification strategies cause female applicators to be perceived untrustworthy.	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
An empirical assessment of cinematic continuity.	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
Supplemental Material for Impact of Veteran Journeys Opera on Audience Member Attitudes Related to Veterans With Posttraumatic Stress or Unstable Housing	2
Does reading a single short story of literary fiction improve social-cognitive skills? Testing the priming hypothesis.	2
Visual exploration mediates the influence of personal traits on responses to artworks in an art gallery setting.	2
Increasing creativity through the development of thinking skills: Combinatorial thinking of viola players.	2
Music, coping with stress, and emotion regulation during the COVID-19 pandemic.	2
Beyond the intellect/openness model? Relationships between Chinese openness and cognitive performance.	2
Once known, twice hedonic: Enjoying Shakespeare’s sonnets through rereading—A deep learning perspective.	2
More recruitment but inefficient performance: The effects of creativity anxiety on consciously augmenting state creativity in the figural domain.	2
Where was I? Distractions during information gathering.	2
Participatory design curriculum promotes engineering design, critical thinking, and creativity for students from kindergarten to 12th grade.	2
False memory at the movies: Experimentally inducing false visual memories through sound design in two cuts of a creative narrative fiction film.	2
Babies’ engagement in music theater performances: A microanalytical study of the aesthetic experiences in early childhood.	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
Behavioral indices of effort discounting are related to perseverance on a creativity task and to bipolar disorder.	2
Consensual assessment in the new domain of e-textiles: Comparing insights from expert, quasi-expert, and novice judges.	2
Altar-ing aesthetic emotions: Exploring responses to ecologically valid beauty stimuli and their relationship to trait engagement with beauty.	2
Cultural diversity in oculometric parameters when viewing art and non-art.	2
Supplemental Material for Thematic Profile Analysis Reveals the Explanatory Power of Themes in Creative Ideas	2
Correction to “The effect of visual recognition on listener choices when searching for music in playlists” by Steffens and Anglada-Tort (2023).	2
Supplemental Material for Conceptualizing, Operationalizing, and Assessing Creativity in Early Childhood Education and Care Settings: A Scoping Review	2
Investigating the relationship between need satisfaction and creative performance: Intrinsically motivated students value creativity.	2