Psychology of Aesthetics Creativity and the Arts

Article	Citations
Supplemental Material for The Aesthetic Quality Model: Complexity and Randomness as Foundations of Visual Beauty by Signaling Quality	83
Supplemental Material for Increasing Music Preference Through Guided Self-Framing: A Comparison of Historical and Imaginative Approaches	67
What’s in a name? Book title salience and the psychology of fiction.	39
Editors' introduction August 2022.	38
On the overlap between aesthetic disposition, cultural eclecticism, and openness: An interdisciplinary study.	35
Engaged and confused: Aesthetic appreciation of live and screened contemporary dance.	32
Supplemental Material for Who Likes the Grotesque? Mapping Individual Differences in Liking of Grotesque Artworks	30
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	29
Mental imagery in aesthetic appreciation and the understanding of the self and others.	28
A computational approach to studying aesthetic judgments of ambiguous artworks.	26
Supplemental Material for Effect of a Creative Dance-Based Physical Education Intervention on Primary School Children’s Creativity and Self-Regulation: A Pilot Study	25
Supplemental Material for Type of Art Expertise Matters: Practical Experts Show a Greater Curvature Preference for Three-Dimensional Shapes Than Theoretical Experts	25
How do examples impact divergent thinking? The interplay between associative and executive processes.	24
The influence of culture on the viewing of Western and East Asian paintings.	24
The effect of imagery on the comprehension and aesthetic appreciation of Chinese ancient poetry.	24
Focus of attention affects togetherness experiences and body interactivity in piano duos.	23
Color’s perceptual diversity and categorical harmony improve aesthetic experience.	23
Exploring barriers to and drivers of participatory arts engagement in early adolescence.	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 Gender Differences in Creative Potential: A Meta-Analysis of Mean Differences and Variability	21
Touch the color change: Representation of color change using tactile grating patterns.	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
Professional status matters: Differences in flow proneness between professional and amateur contemporary musicians.	19
Supplemental Material for A New Test for Assessing Creative Flexibility of Perceptual Interpretation: The Figural Interpretation Quest	19
Supplemental Material for A Brush With Scandal: How Artist Morality Shapes Aesthetic Preferences	19

Supplemental Material for A Computational Approach to Studying Aesthetic Judgments of Ambiguous Artworks	19
An improved taxonomy of creativity measures based on salient task attributes.	18
Measuring storyworld possible selves in depression stories: Linguistic features, personal relevance, and the narrative experience.	18
The effect of self-expansion on creativity: Examining the role of novelty experiences.	18
Supplemental Material for Toward Equitable Creativity Self-Assessment: Measurement Invariance and Mean Differences Across Ethnicity in the Kaufman Domains of Creativity Scale	17
Supplemental Material for Photographs That Repulse or Entice: Sense-Making and Emotional Experiencing of Artistic Photographs	16
Supplemental Material for Original Photographic Art Induces Self-Transcendent Emotions	16
Does flower preference differ across cultures? A study of Czech and Kenyan populations.	16
Eye color is more important than skin color for clothing color aesthetics.	16
Creative achievement and individual differences: Associations across and within the domains of creativity.	15
Supplemental Material for A Time and a Place for Art Perception	15
Makeup works by modifying factors of facial beauty.	15
Assessing the robustness of automated scoring of divergent thinking tasks with adversarial examples.	15
Staged and gendered pathways from parenting behaviors to Chinese students’ creative thinking: The roles of autonomous motivation and creative self-efficacy.	15
A brush with scandal: How artist morality shapes aesthetic preferences.	15
Object-based practice effects recover the graphic object concept in Alzheimer’s dementia.	14
The Aesthetic Responsiveness Assessment (AReA) in Farsi language: A scale validation and cultural adaptation study.	14
An itsy bitsy audience: Live performance facilitates infants’ attention and heart rate synchronization.	14
The role of expertise in visual exploration and aesthetic judgment of residential building façades: An eye-tracking study.	13
The relation between the aesthetic perception of objects and the focus in visual attention across different stages of ego development.	13
Adaptation of the Runco Ideational Behavior Scale into Turkish: A confirmatory factor analysis and Rasch study.	13
Cathedrals of sound: Predictors of the sublime and the beautiful in music, images, and music with images.	13
Supplemental Material for Imaginings From an Unfamiliar World: Narrative Engagement With a New Musical System	13
Supplemental Material for Effectiveness of Drama-Based Therapies on Mental Health Outcomes: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Controlled Studies	13
A systematic quantitative review of divergent thinking assessments.	13
Do you chill when I chill? A cross-cultural study of strong emotional responses to music.	13
Supplemental Material for Effect of Hedonic Contrasts on Movie Appreciation	13
Editor’s introduction.	13
Supplemental Material for How Do Examples Impact Divergent Thinking? The Interplay Between Associative and Executive Processes	12
How filmmakers guide the eye: The effect of average shot length on intersubject attentional synchrony.	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
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
Supplemental Material for The Influence of Culture on the Viewing of Western and East Asian Paintings	12
Editors’ introduction April 2024.	12
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.	11
Supplemental Material for Spirit Behind Appearance: Facial Motion Increases Facial Attractiveness Through Perceived Vitality	11
A Model of Creative Aging (MOCA): Unlocking the potential of constraints for creativity in older adults.	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
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
Artists have superior local and global processing abilities but show a preference for initially drawing globally.	11
The complementary roles of intuition and logic in creative design ideation.	11
Supplemental Material for Visuospatial Components of Drawing Skill Correlate With Mental Transformation Performance	11
The relationship between mobile phone use and creative ideation among college students: The roles of critical thinking and creative self-efficacy.	10
Subjective emotional instances surpass formal perceptual features in shaping the aesthetic appeal of artworks.	10
Editors’ introduction.	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
The nature of perception and emotion in aesthetic appreciation: A response to Makin’s challenge to empirical aesthetics.	10

“Like static noise in a beautiful landscape”: A mixed-methods approach to rationales and features of disliked voices in popular music.	10
Character strengths afforded by arts engagement during adolescence: The development and validation of the Creative Artistic Activities Strengths Affordances Scale.	9
Supplemental Material for Aesthetic Preferences Among Spatial Patterns: Large-Scale Experiment, Comprehensive Exploration, and a Three-Component Regularity-Based Model	9
Aesthetic judgments of music: Reliability, consistency, criteria, self-insight, and expertise.	9
Universality and specificity of the kindchenschema: A cross-cultural study on cute rectangles.	9
Beyond the single picture: Aesthetic experiences with photography series in an exhibition context.	9
Supplemental Material for The Temporal Instability of Aesthetic Preferences	9
Automated feedback and creativity: On the role of metacognitive monitoring in divergent thinking.	9
Reliability and validity of a novel Ambulatory Battery of Creativity (ABC).	9
Supplemental Material for A Meta-Analysis of the Effects of Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation on Creative Thinking	9
Supplemental Material for The Appeal of Insight: Why Riddles and Whodunits Captivate Us	9
D-I-WHAT? Identifying creative domains in do-it-yourself videos on YouTube.	9
Supplemental Material for Applying Bodily Sensation Maps to Art-Elicited Emotions: An Explorative Study	9
Supplemental Material for Visual Exploration Mediates the Influence of Personal Traits on Responses to Artworks in an Art Gallery Setting	9
Supplemental Material for How Much Does Performance Quality Matter in Musical Emotion Induction? Main Effects and Interaction Effects With Listener Features	8
Trust the process: The effects of iteration in children’s creative processes on their creative products.	8
Supplemental Material for Emotion, Embodiment, and Aesthetic Appraisal: The Impact of Interoceptive Abilities and Art Type	8
Imaginings from an unfamiliar world: Narrative engagement with a new musical system.	8
Figuring out what they feel: Exposure to eudaimonic narrative fiction is related to mentalizing ability.	8
Methods used to study audience experience of screen-based media: A scoping review.	8
Supplemental Material for Creative Mindset Induction Affects Beliefs but Not Creative Task Performance	8
Supplemental Material for Vigilance and Social Chills With Music: Evidence for Two Types of Musical Chills	8
Differential effects of film genre on viewers’ absorption, identification, and enjoyment.	8
In the dark cube: Movie theater context enhances the valuation and aesthetic experience of watching films.	8
Understanding metaphor in art: Distinguishing literal giants from metaphorical challenges.	8
Processing fluency, processing style, and aesthetic response to artistic photographs.	7
Increasing music preference through guided self-framing: A comparison of historical and imaginative approaches.	7
Visual perception of the built environment in virtual reality: A systematic characterization of human aesthetic experience in spaces with curved boundaries.	7
Less is more: The effect of visiting duration on the perceived restorativeness of museums.	7
Supplemental Material for Automated Feedback and Creativity: On the Role of Metacognitive Monitoring in Divergent Thinking	7
What a great feeling! The “experiencing art at school” program to engage children in visual arts and improve their emotional states.	7
Narrative aesthetic absorption in audiobooks is predicted by blink rate and acoustic features.	7
The time-course of fixations in representational paintings: A cross-cultural study.	7
What types of daydreaming predict creativity? Laboratory and experience sampling evidence.	7
Patterns of psychological vulnerabilities and resources in artists and nonartists.	7
Supplemental Material for Paths to Transformation Across Contemporary Reading Practices: The Role of Motivations and Genre Preferences	7
Review of Why theatre education matters: Understanding its cognitive, social, and emotional benefits.	7
The Aesthetic Responsiveness Assessment (AReA): A screening tool to assess individual differences in responsiveness to art in English and German.	7
Moving me, moving you: Emotional expressivity, empathy, and prior experience shape whole-body movement preferences.	7
Art as communication: Fulfilling Gricean communication principles predicts aesthetic liking.	7
Supplemental Material for D-I-WHAT? Identifying Creative Domains in Do-It-Yourself Videos on YouTube	7
Don't throw the “bad” ideas away! Multidimensional top scoring increases reliability of divergent thinking tasks.	7
Supplemental Material for Presenting TaMuNaBe: A Taxonomy of Museum Navigation Behaviors	7
Supplemental Material for Beyond the Here and Now: Leveraging Distal Mental Simulation for Creative Breakthroughs	6
Vigilance and social chills with music: Evidence for two types of musical chills.	6
Lofty aims, limited actors, fewer artifacts: A sociocultural analysis of Confucian conceptions of creativity and innovation.	6
Audience responses to diverse superheroes: The roles of gender and race in forging connections with media characters in superhero franchise films.	6
How stable is the creative self-concept? A latent state-trait analysis.	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
Review of Mary Climbs In: The Journeys of Bruce Springsteen’s Women Fans.	6
Development and initial validation of the State Spontaneity Scale.	6
Evaluation of aesthetic pleasure in schizophrenia spectrum disorders, using the eye-tracking methodology.	6
Supplemental Material for Is Humor Temperament Associated With Being Creative, Original, and Funny? A Tale of Three Studies	6
Editors’ introduction, February 2023.	6
Multilingual semantic distance: Automatic verbal creativity assessment in many languages.	6
Content warnings reduce aesthetic appreciation of visual art.	6
Dual pathways in creative writing processes.	5
Supplemental Material for Movement-Based Music in the Classroom: Investigating the Effects of Music Programs Incorporating Body Movement in Primary School Children	5
Some like it sharp: Song familiarity influences musical preference for absolute tuning.	5
Acting gender: Actors’ experiences of gender role conformity and hopes for their characters.	5
Supplemental Material for Challenging Magicians’ Intuitive Insights: The Role of Audience Participation in Experiencing a Magic Trick	5
Subjective understanding boosts contemporary art appreciation among primary school students.	5
Supplemental Material for Laughing Across the Bridge: The Role of Associative Abilities in Humor	5
Supplemental Material for Development and Validation of the Aesthetic Processing Preference Scale (APPS)	5
Does divergent thinking relate to expertise? Introducing a novel test of creative ideation in music.	5
Mind wandering outside the box—About the role of off-task thoughts and their assessment during creative incubation.	5
The temporal instability of aesthetic preferences.	5
Back where I belong: Rereading as a risk-free pathway to social connection.	5
Visual attention bias for self-made artworks.	5
The relationship between lifetime book reading and empathy in adolescents: Examining transportability as a moderator.	5
Visual arts activities relate to interest and cortisol for children in Head Start preschool.	5
Shared meaning in representational and abstract visual art: An empirical study.	5
More light about each other: Theater education as a context for developing social awareness and relationship skills.	5
Supplemental Material for Sense-Sational Acting: Intuition in Actors Is Supported by Interoceptive, Exteroceptive, and Immersive Abilities	5
Modality influences perceived film suspense but not time perception.	5
Together in the dark?: Investigating the understanding and feeling of intended emotions between viewers and professional artists at the Venice Biennale.	5
The aesthetic experience of live concerts: Self-reports and psychophysiology.	5
Images influencing images: How pictorial context affects the emotional interpretation of art photographs.	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
Fifty years later and still working: Rediscovering Paulus et al’s (1970) automated scoring of divergent thinking tests.	5

Supplemental Material for The Usual Miracles: How Narrative Style Affects the Processing of Counterintuitive Concepts	5
Conceptualizing, operationalizing, and assessing creativity in early childhood education and care settings: A scoping review.	5
Neural dissociation between computational and subjective image complexity.	5
Supplemental Material for The Effect of Implicit Theories of Human Beauty and Perceived Pressure on Cosmetic Consumption	5
Supplemental Material for Cultural Diversity in Oculometric Parameters When Viewing Art and Non-Art	5
Intellectual risk taking: A moderating link between creative confidence and creative behavior?	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
The Goldsmiths Dance Sophistication Index (Gold-DSI): A psychometric tool to assess individual differences in dance experience.	4
Supplemental Material for The Cognitive Brain Processes for Representing Form/Design Innovation and Function Innovation Product Designs	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
Preference for paintings is also affected by curvature.	4
An exploratory study of historical representations of love in an art gallery exhibition.	4
Pitch height and mode have asymmetrical effects on the perception of mixed emotions in major and minor seventh chords.	4
Untrustworthy beauty: Beautification strategies cause female applicators to be perceived untrustworthy.	4
From story to heartbeats: Physiological synchrony in theater audiences.	4
Poetry-elicited emotions: Reading experience and psychological mechanisms.	4
Beauty lies in the eye of the mindful: Does mindfulness intensify aesthetic experience by freeing working memory resources?	4
Gravitating toward the arts during the COVID-19 pandemic.	4
Artificial intelligence and art: Identifying the aesthetic judgment factors that distinguish human- and machine-generated artwork.	4
The spectrum of distributed creativity: Tango dancing and its generative modalities.	4
Supplemental Material for More Light About Each Other: Theater Education as a Context for Developing Social Awareness and Relationship Skills	4
Supplemental Material for The Aesthetic Responsiveness Assessment (AReA) in Farsi Language: A Scale Validation and Cultural Adaptation Study	4
Supplemental Material for An Randomized Study of El Sistema-Inspired Youth Music Education Programming: Evidence Addressing Executive Function and Social–Emotional Learning	4
Effectiveness of drama-based therapies on mental health outcomes: A systematic review and meta-analysis of controlled studies.	4
Melody in poems and songs: Fundamental statistical properties predict aesthetic evaluation.	4
Mood and creativity in children: Differential impacts on convergent and divergent thinking.	4
Cognitive reappraisal and creative self-concept among higher education students: A latent class analysis.	4
Altering balance perception through the agent’s expression: Happy face suppresses the inward bias.	4
It is heart to be creative: Insights from ambulatory monitoring.	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
How verbal cues help to see and understand art.	3
Supplemental Material for The Role of Imagery and Emotion in the Aesthetic Appeal of Music, Poetry, and Paintings	3
Does the typeface on album cover influence expectations and perception of music?	3
Creative thinking and executive functions: Associations and training effects in adolescents.	3
Personality traits as predictors of work creativity: A comparison between self- and other-reports.	3
Measuring divergent thinking originality with human raters and text-mining models: A psychometric comparison of methods.	3
Beyond togetherness: Interactional dissensus fosters creativity and tension in freely improvised musical duos.	3
Self- and other-reported creativity and its association with personality in a cappella singers.	3
Supplemental Material for Evaluation of Poetic Creativity: Predictors and the Role of Expertise—A Multilevel Approach	3
What counts as aesthetics in science? A bibliometric analysis and visualization of the scientific literature from 1970 to 2018.	3
Inspired by art: Higher aesthetic appeal elicits increased felt inspiration in a creative writing task.	3
Edit blindness is not related to immersion and presence in Hollywood movies.	3
Participation in intensive orchestral music training does not cause gains in executive functioning, self-perception, or attitudes toward school in young children.	3
Supplemental Material for Melody in Poems and Songs: Fundamental Statistical Properties Predict Aesthetic Evaluation	3
Worth the effort? Comparing different youtube vlog production styles in terms of viewers’ identification, parasocial response, immersion, and enjoyment.	3
Eyelight enhances perceived emotional responses to cinema.	3
Supplemental Material for Psychopathology in World-Class Artistic and Scientific Creativity	3
Green slime and orange blimps: A linguistic analysis of Nickelodeon’s kids’ choice awards.	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 Exploration of Discriminant Validity in Divergent Thinking Tasks: A Meta-Analysis	3
Dancing through the uncanny valley: On the likeability of model-generated dance movements.	3
Automated scoring of creative problem solving with large language models: A comparison of originality and quality ratings.	3
The effect of visual recognition on listener choices when searching for music in playlists.	3
Applying German word vectors to assess flexibility performance in the associative fluency task.	2
Radically revolutionary or pretty flowers? The impact of curatorial narrative of artistic deviance on perceived artist influence.	2
Individual differences in aesthetic engagement and proneness to aesthetic chill: Associations with stress-related growth orientation.	2
What perfume makes us feel: A self-report evaluation of perfume-related Olfactory Aesthetic Experience Scale.	2
One hundred and fifty years after Fechner: A view from the “middle of the storm”.	2
Individualizing and binding moral values as a function of evaluations of artwork depicting nudity.	2
Cultural diversity in oculometric parameters when viewing art and non-art.	2
Beyond the intellect/openness model? Relationships between Chinese openness and cognitive performance.	2
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	2
Supplemental Material for Virtual Art Visits: Examining the Effects of Slow Looking on Well-Being in an Online Environment	2
Themes and trends in creativity research between 1894 and 2022: A topic modeling approach.	2
Judging beauty and liking: The effects of personal intuitions and task instructions.	2
Perceiving versus scrutinizing: Viewers do not default to awareness of small spatiotemporal inconsistencies in movie edits.	2
An empirical assessment of cinematic continuity.	2
Supplemental Material for Bridging the Gap Through Common Features: The Semantic Structure of Creative Metaphors	2
Music self-efficacy, self-esteem, and help-seeking orientation among amateur musicians who use online music tutorials.	2
Challenging magicians’ intuitive insights: The role of audience participation in experiencing a magic trick.	2
The appeal of insight: Why riddles and whodunits captivate us.	2
Once known, twice hedonic: Enjoying Shakespeare’s sonnets through rereading—A deep learning perspective.	2
Babies’ engagement in music theater performances: A microanalytical study of the aesthetic experiences in early childhood.	2
Story writing and the “play of imagination”.	2
How momentary affect impacts retrospective evaluations of musical experiences.	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
Emotion, embodiment, and aesthetic appraisal: The impact of interoceptive abilities and art type.	2
Creativity and irrelevance processing: Evidence from online eye tracking.	2
From Perugino to Picasso: Holistic processing of faces in paintings.	2
From “a nothing” to something special: Art as a space of holding attunement in the creative experience of Holocaust survivor artists.	2
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.	2
Creative idea forecasting: The effect of task exposure on idea evaluation.	2
Supplemental Material for Processing Fluency, Processing Style, and Aesthetic Response to Artistic Photographs	2
Investigating the relationship between need satisfaction and creative performance: Intrinsically motivated students value creativity.	2
Does reading a single short story of literary fiction improve social-cognitive skills? Testing the priming hypothesis.	2
Altar-ing aesthetic emotions: Exploring responses to ecologically valid beauty stimuli and their relationship to trait engagement with beauty.	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 A MAD Method to Assess Idea Novelty: Improving Validity of Automatic Scoring Using Maximum Associative Distance (MAD)	2
Supplemental Material for Assessment of Creativity: Adaptation and Validation of the Runco Ideational Behavior Scale for Vietnamese Students	2
Free association ability distinguishes highly creative artists from scientists: Findings from the Big-C Project.	2
Review of Integrated care for the traumatized: A whole-person approach.	2
Participatory design curriculum promotes engineering design, critical thinking, and creativity for students from kindergarten to 12th grade.	2