Psychology of Aesthetics Creativity and the Arts

Article	Citations
Supplemental Material for Who Likes the Grotesque? Mapping Individual Differences in Liking of Grotesque Artworks	61
Supplemental Material for The Aesthetic Quality Model: Complexity and Randomness as Foundations of Visual Beauty by Signaling Quality	49
On the overlap between aesthetic disposition, cultural eclecticism, and openness: An interdisciplinary study.	48
A computational approach to studying aesthetic judgments of ambiguous artworks.	41
Mental imagery in aesthetic appreciation and the understanding of the self and others.	38
Parent–child creative activities are associated with children’s positive affect and relationships quality.	37
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	36
Pythagoras’ quest: A mathematical model and scale for aesthetic judgments.	36
Anterior insula is an integrative hub in aesthetic judgment.	36
Engaged and confused: Aesthetic appreciation of live and screened contemporary dance.	35
Editors' introduction August 2022.	35
Supplemental Material for Gender Differences in Creative Potential: A Meta-Analysis of Mean Differences and Variability	32
Supplemental Material for A Computational Approach to Studying Aesthetic Judgments of Ambiguous Artworks	31
Supplemental Material for A New Test for Assessing Creative Flexibility of Perceptual Interpretation: The Figural Interpretation Quest	31
Supplemental Material for A Brush With Scandal: How Artist Morality Shapes Aesthetic Preferences	31
Supplemental Material for Effect of a Creative Dance-Based Physical Education Intervention on Primary School Children’s Creativity and Self-Regulation: A Pilot Study	27
Supplemental Material for Diminishing Creative Returns: Predicting Optimal Creative Performance via Individual Differences in Executive Functioning	27
The effect of self-expansion on creativity: Examining the role of novelty experiences.	26
Bias against artificial intelligence in visual art: A meta-analysis.	26
Supplemental Material for Type of Art Expertise Matters: Practical Experts Show a Greater Curvature Preference for Three-Dimensional Shapes Than Theoretical Experts	26
Professional status matters: Differences in flow proneness between professional and amateur contemporary musicians.	25
Supplemental Material for A View Worth Talking About: The Influence of Social Interaction on Aesthetic Experience and Well-Being Outcomes in the Gallery	25
Touch the color change: Representation of color change using tactile grating patterns.	25
Color’s perceptual diversity and categorical harmony improve aesthetic experience.	24
An improved taxonomy of creativity measures based on salient task attributes.	23

How do examples impact divergent thinking? The interplay between associative and executive processes.	23
Supplemental Material for Feeling Socially (Dis)Engaging Emotions With Favorite Music: The Role of Self-Construal Across Cultures	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	22
Supplemental Material for “Memorable Speech”: Formal and Affective Determinants of Memory for Poetry	22
The effect of imagery on the comprehension and aesthetic appreciation of Chinese ancient poetry.	21
The influence of culture on the viewing of Western and East Asian paintings.	21
Supplemental Material for Creativity Quotes: An Expansive Analysis of Condensed Wisdom	21
Supplemental Material for Toward Equitable Creativity Self-Assessment: Measurement Invariance and Mean Differences Across Ethnicity in the Kaufman Domains of Creativity Scale	20
A brush with scandal: How artist morality shapes aesthetic preferences.	20
Focus of attention affects togetherness experiences and body interactivity in piano duos.	20
Supplemental Material for Original Photographic Art Induces Self-Transcendent Emotions	20
Exploring barriers to and drivers of participatory arts engagement in early adolescence.	20
Does flower preference differ across cultures? A study of Czech and Kenyan populations.	19
The heart behind the art: Motives for making art and how they influence audience appreciation.	19
Supplemental Material for A Time and a Place for Art Perception	18
Supplemental Material for Photographs That Repulse or Entice: Sense-Making and Emotional Experiencing of Artistic Photographs	18
Eye color is more important than skin color for clothing color aesthetics.	17
Staged and gendered pathways from parenting behaviors to Chinese students’ creative thinking: The roles of autonomous motivation and creative self-efficacy.	17
Supplemental Material for A Systematic Approach to Study Preferences for Complexity at Different Levels of Order	17
Assessing the robustness of automated scoring of divergent thinking tasks with adversarial examples.	17
The eye of an artist: How visual training shapes the way we compare visual scenes.	17
Makeup works by modifying factors of facial beauty.	16
Object-based practice effects recover the graphic object concept in Alzheimer’s dementia.	16
Editor’s introduction.	16
Can young children control their creativity? Examining the role of executive function in modifying children’s creative processes.	16
Measuring storyworld possible selves in depression stories: Linguistic features, personal relevance, and the narrative experience.	16
Supplemental Material for Imaginings From an Unfamiliar World: Narrative Engagement With a New Musical System	15
Supplemental Material for Filling in the Blanks of Ganzfeld Art	15
Supplemental Material for Effectiveness of Drama-Based Therapies on Mental Health Outcomes: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Controlled Studies	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
Review of The Psychology of Creative Performance and Expertise.	15
Implicit aesthetic processing and emotional priming: A functional magnetic resonance imaging study on artistic and nonartistic stimuli.	15
An itsy bitsy audience: Live performance facilitates infants’ attention and heart rate synchronization.	14
The relation between the aesthetic perception of objects and the focus in visual attention across different stages of ego development.	14
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	14
The Aesthetic Responsiveness Assessment (AReA) in Farsi language: A scale validation and cultural adaptation study.	14
The computational and neural mechanisms of audiovisual multisensory aesthetic information influences on value-based decision-making.	14
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
Were they appealing to the sun? On why cones and tetrahedra were so popular at the dawn of civilization.	12
Supplemental Material for How Do Examples Impact Divergent Thinking? The Interplay Between Associative and Executive Processes	12
Supplemental Material for Visuospatial Components of Drawing Skill Correlate With Mental Transformation Performance	12
Supplemental Material for The Effect of Social Comparison Feedback on Creative Performance and the Moderating Roles of Creative Self-Efficacy and Creative Personal Identity	12
Editors’ Introduction to Part 1 of the Special Issue on Racial and Cultural Issues.	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
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 complementary roles of intuition and logic in creative design ideation.	12
A systematic quantitative review of divergent thinking assessments.	12
Thinking beyond your own experience: How expert cases and guidance enhance creativity for nonexperts.	12
Supplemental Material for Spirit Behind Appearance: Facial Motion Increases Facial Attractiveness Through Perceived Vitality	12

Editors’ introduction April 2024.	12
Cathedrals of sound: Predictors of the sublime and the beautiful in music, images, and music with images.	12
Automated scoring of figural creativity using a convolutional neural network.	11
Supplemental Material for Books or Films, Ephemeral or Habitual? Untangling the Path From Narrative Fiction to Social Cognition	11
A Model of Creative Aging (MOCA): Unlocking the potential of constraints for creativity in older adults.	11
Still images, shifting minds: Testing the transformative effects of evocative visuals.	11
The relationship between mobile phone use and creative ideation among college students: The roles of critical thinking and creative self-efficacy.	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 art of feeling different: Exploring the diversity of emotions experienced during an art museum visit.	11
Big-C creativity in artists and scientists is associated with more random global but less random local fMRI functional connectivity.	10
Artists have superior local and global processing abilities but show a preference for initially drawing globally.	10
Supplemental Material for The Appeal of Insight: Why Riddles and Whodunits Captivate Us	10
Acknowledgment of Ad Hoc Reviewers	10
The brain entropy basis of schizotypal personality and its relation to fantasy proneness.	10
The relationship between divergent thinking, emotional regulation in the arts, and cognitive reappraisal.	10
Character strengths afforded by arts engagement during adolescence: The development and validation of the Creative Artistic Activities Strengths Affordances Scale.	10
Supplemental Material for The Temporal Instability of Aesthetic Preferences	10
Overexcitabilities and bidirectional development in playfulness and creative potential among kindergarten children.	10
Subjective emotional instances surpass formal perceptual features in shaping the aesthetic appeal of artworks.	9
Aesthetic judgments of music: Reliability, consistency, criteria, self-insight, and expertise.	9
Feeling socially (dis)engaging emotions with favorite music: The role of self-construal across cultures.	9
Beyond the single picture: Aesthetic experiences with photography series in an exhibition context.	9
“Like static noise in a beautiful landscape”: A mixed-methods approach to rationales and features of disliked voices in popular music.	9
Divergent versus convergent creativity in children: Neural dissociation of novelty and usefulness via fNIRS.	9
Art has no gender, only gender bias.	9
D-I-WHAT? Identifying creative domains in do-it-yourself videos on YouTube.	9
Supplemental Material for A Meta-Analysis of the Effects of Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation on Creative Thinking	9
Supplemental Material for Aesthetic Preferences Among Spatial Patterns: Large-Scale Experiment, Comprehensive Exploration, and a Three-Component Regularity-Based Model	9
Editors’ introduction.	9
Children’s concepts of creativity in video games.	9
Both science and art elicit emotional well-being: An examination of creativity and mood.	8
Supplemental Material for From Momentary to Long-Term Affect: How Affective Processes Shape Poetic Creativity	8
Automated feedback and creativity: On the role of metacognitive monitoring in divergent thinking.	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 Canceling Creativity? Exploring Artist Censure As a Function of Crime Type	8
Imaginings from an unfamiliar world: Narrative engagement with a new musical system.	8
Visual perception of the built environment in virtual reality: A systematic characterization of human aesthetic experience in spaces with curved boundaries.	8
The time-course of fixations in representational paintings: A cross-cultural study.	8
Understanding metaphor in art: Distinguishing literal giants from metaphorical challenges.	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
Review of Mary Climbs In: The Journeys of Bruce Springsteen’s Women Fans.	8
What a great feeling! The “experiencing art at school” program to engage children in visual arts and improve their emotional states.	8
Trust the process: The effects of iteration in children’s creative processes on their creative products.	8
Reliability and validity of a novel Ambulatory Battery of Creativity (ABC).	8
Neuroarchitecture of aesthetic experience: Investigating brain oscillations for interior spaces with curved boundaries in virtual reality.	8
Supplemental Material for How Much Does Performance Quality Matter in Musical Emotion Induction? Main Effects and Interaction Effects With Listener Features	8
Supplemental Material for Visual Exploration Mediates the Influence of Personal Traits on Responses to Artworks in an Art Gallery Setting	8
Supplemental Material for Inhale, Exhale, Draw: A Guided Drawing and Mindfulness Intervention for Anxiety Reduction	8
Supplemental Material for Creative Mindset Induction Affects Beliefs but Not Creative Task Performance	8
Processing fluency, processing style, and aesthetic response to artistic photographs.	8
Review of Why theatre education matters: Understanding its cognitive, social, and emotional benefits.	8
Methods used to study audience experience of screen-based media: A scoping review.	8
Supplemental Material for Automated Feedback and Creativity: On the Role of Metacognitive Monitoring in Divergent Thinking	7
Development and initial validation of the State Spontaneity Scale.	7
Editors’ introduction, February 2023.	7
How stable is the creative self-concept? A latent state-trait analysis.	7
Evaluation of aesthetic pleasure in schizophrenia spectrum disorders, using the eye-tracking methodology.	7
Lofty aims, limited actors, fewer artifacts: A sociocultural analysis of Confucian conceptions of creativity and innovation.	7
Don't throw the “bad” ideas away! Multidimensional top scoring increases reliability of divergent thinking tasks.	7
Supplemental Material for The Persian Author Recognition Test: Exposure to Literary and Popular Fiction Differently Predicts Theory of Mind	7
Supplemental Material for Paths to Transformation Across Contemporary Reading Practices: The Role of Motivations and Genre Preferences	7
Supplemental Material for D-I-WHAT? Identifying Creative Domains in Do-It-Yourself Videos on YouTube	7
Content warnings reduce aesthetic appreciation of visual art.	7
Inhale, exhale, draw: A guided drawing and mindfulness intervention for anxiety reduction.	7
Vigilance and social chills with music: Evidence for two types of musical chills.	7
Supplemental Material for Beyond the Here and Now: Leveraging Distal Mental Simulation for Creative Breakthroughs	6
Supplemental Material for Movement-Based Music in the Classroom: Investigating the Effects of Music Programs Incorporating Body Movement in Primary School Children	6
Free but controlled mind creates through reference: The role of shifting and idea referencing in individuals with different working memory and mind wandering profiles.	6
Supplemental Material for The Computational and Neural Mechanisms of Audiovisual Multisensory Aesthetic Information Influences on Value-Based Decision-Making	6
Dual pathways in creative writing processes.	6
Less is more: The effect of visiting duration on the perceived restorativeness of museums.	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
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
Association between music use and depression among college students: The moderating roles of regulatory emotional self-efficacy and gender.	6
Multilingual semantic distance: Automatic verbal creativity assessment in many languages.	6
Images influencing images: How pictorial context affects the emotional interpretation of art photographs.	6

Some like it sharp: Song familiarity influences musical preference for absolute tuning.	6
The aesthetic experience of live concerts: Self-reports and psychophysiology.	6
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
When the painting meets its musical inspiration: The impact of multimodal art experience on aesthetic enjoyment and subjective well-being in the museum.	5
Visual attention bias for self-made artworks.	5
Beauty lies in the eye of the mindful: Does mindfulness intensify aesthetic experience by freeing working memory resources?	5
Mood and creativity in children: Differential impacts on convergent and divergent thinking.	5
Subjective understanding boosts contemporary art appreciation among primary school students.	5
Supplemental Material for Sense-Sational Acting: Intuition in Actors Is Supported by Interoceptive, Exteroceptive, and Immersive Abilities	5
Art therapy with women survivors of intimate partner violence: A scoping review.	5
Visual arts activities relate to interest and cortisol for children in Head Start preschool.	5
Audience responses to diverse superheroes: The roles of gender and race in forging connections with media characters in superhero franchise films.	5
Supplemental Material for Cultural Diversity in Oculometric Parameters When Viewing Art and Non-Art	5
Supplemental Material for The Usual Miracles: How Narrative Style Affects the Processing of Counterintuitive Concepts	5
Does divergent thinking relate to expertise? Introducing a novel test of creative ideation in music.	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
Supplemental Material for Laughing Across the Bridge: The Role of Associative Abilities in Humor	5
Modality influences perceived film suspense but not time perception.	5
The relationship between lifetime book reading and empathy in adolescents: Examining transportability as a moderator.	5
The temporal instability of aesthetic preferences.	5
Preference for paintings is also affected by curvature.	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
The effect of social comparison feedback on creative performance and the moderating roles of creative self-efficacy and creative personal identity.	5
An exploratory study of historical representations of love in an art gallery exhibition.	4
Cognitive reappraisal and creative self-concept among higher education students: A latent class analysis.	4
Pitch height and mode have asymmetrical effects on the perception of mixed emotions in major and minor seventh chords.	4
Supplemental Material for Subjective Emotional Instances Surpass Formal Perceptual Features in Shaping the Aesthetic Appeal of Artworks	4
Supplemental Material for The Aesthetic Responsiveness Assessment (AReA) in Farsi Language: A Scale Validation and Cultural Adaptation Study	4
What counts as aesthetics in science? A bibliometric analysis and visualization of the scientific literature from 1970 to 2018.	4
The spectrum of distributed creativity: Tango dancing and its generative modalities.	4
The influence of anger and anxiety on idea generation: Taking a closer look at integral and incidental emotion effects.	4
Decoding eye movements in naturalistic literary reading: Text-based predictions reveal aspects of narrative and aesthetic processing.	4
Supplemental Material for The Cognitive Brain Processes for Representing Form/Design Innovation and Function Innovation Product Designs	4
A systematic approach to study preferences for complexity at different levels of order.	4
Supplemental Material for More Light About Each Other: Theater Education as a Context for Developing Social Awareness and Relationship Skills	4
Artificial intelligence and art: Identifying the aesthetic judgment factors that distinguish human- and machine-generated artwork.	4
Supplemental Material for Judging Beauty and Liking: The Effects of Personal Intuitions and Task Instructions	4
Supplemental Material for Art Has No Gender, Only Gender Bias	4
Melody in poems and songs: Fundamental statistical properties predict aesthetic evaluation.	4
Altering balance perception through the agent’s expression: Happy face suppresses the inward bias.	4
Beyond the here and now: Leveraging distal mental simulation for creative breakthroughs.	4
From story to heartbeats: Physiological synchrony in theater audiences.	4
Supplemental Material for A Randomized Study of El Sistema-Inspired Youth Music Education Programming: Evidence Addressing Executive Function and Social–Emotional Learning	4
The Goldsmiths Dance Sophistication Index (Gold-DSI): A psychometric tool to assess individual differences in dance experience.	4
Supplemental Material for Exploring Arts Engagement Among Black Americans: Insights on Flourishing and Barriers to Participation From a Mixed-Methods Survey	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
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 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 Evaluation of Poetic Creativity: Predictors and the Role of Expertise—A Multilevel Approach	3
Automated scoring of creative problem solving with large language models: A comparison of originality and quality ratings.	3
Eyelight enhances perceived emotional responses to cinema.	3
Worth the effort? Comparing different youtube vlog production styles in terms of viewers’ identification, parasocial response, immersion, and enjoyment.	3
Supplemental Material for The Role of Imagery and Emotion in the Aesthetic Appeal of Music, Poetry, and Paintings	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
Untrustworthy beauty: Beautification strategies cause female applicators to be perceived untrustworthy.	3
Gravitating toward the arts during the COVID-19 pandemic.	3
Supplemental Material for Artists’ Morality Colors Aesthetic Judgments of Their Paintings	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
The psychological impact of visual art in the workplace on employees: A systematic mixed-studies review.	3
It is heart to be creative: Insights from ambulatory monitoring.	3
Inspired by art: Higher aesthetic appeal elicits increased felt inspiration in a creative writing task.	3
Beyond togetherness: Interactional dissensus fosters creativity and tension in freely improvised musical duos.	3
Supplemental Material for Art Therapy With Women Survivors of Intimate Partner Violence: A Scoping Review	3
Supplemental Material for Does Shared Experience Change the Aesthetic Appreciation of Art? Evidence From an Exploratory Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging Study	3
Poetry-elicited emotions: Reading experience and psychological mechanisms.	3
How verbal cues help to see and understand art.	3
Creativity across domains: Examining the role of imagination and self-regulation in early childhood creativity.	3
Self- and other-reported creativity and its association with personality in a cappella singers.	3
The association between elementary school students’ everyday creative experience, creative behavior, and daily emotions: A diary study.	3
Music self-efficacy, self-esteem, and help-seeking orientation among amateur musicians who use online music tutorials.	3
Applying German word vectors to assess flexibility performance in the associative fluency task.	3
Participation in intensive orchestral music training does not cause gains in executive functioning, self-perception, or attitudes toward school in young children.	3
From pathogens to paintings: A preliminary investigation into the behavioral immune system’s influence on visual aesthetic appreciation and perception.	3
The relationship between demographics, behavioral and experiential engagement factors, and the use of artistic creative activities to regulate emotions.	3
Supplemental Material for Thinking Behind the Doing of Dance: A Review of Cognitive Dance Studies	3
Mindfulness and malevolent creativity: A longitudinal study using cross-lagged panel model and network analysis.	3
Supplemental Material for What Moves the Museum? Evidence on Indoor Spatial and Design Principles Shaping Affective and Aesthetic Responses	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
Relational processing in faces in paintings varying along a realism continuum.	3
Does the typeface on album cover influence expectations and perception of music?	3
Edit blindness is not related to immersion and presence in Hollywood movies.	3
Supplemental Material for A MAD Method to Assess Idea Novelty: Improving Validity of Automatic Scoring Using Maximum Associative Distance (MAD)	2
Beyond the intellect/openness model? Relationships between Chinese openness and cognitive performance.	2
Visual exploration mediates the influence of personal traits on responses to artworks in an art gallery setting.	2
Behavioral indices of effort discounting are related to perseverance on a creativity task and to bipolar disorder.	2
Incongruent objects are surprising but do not inspire more original ideas.	2
Supplemental Material for Expanding Minds: Artistic Film Promotes Conceptual Expansion and Verbal Creativity	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
Music, coping with stress, and emotion regulation during the COVID-19 pandemic.	2