Psychology of Aesthetics Creativity and the Arts

Article	Citations
The advantage of novel solutions on subsequent memory in insight problems.	68
Methods used to study audience experience of screen-based media: A scoping review.	60
Supplemental Material for Beauty Is in the Brain Networks of the Beholder: An Exploratory Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging Study	46
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	33
A computational approach to studying aesthetic judgments of ambiguous artworks.	31
What types of daydreaming predict creativity? Laboratory and experience sampling evidence.	27
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.	27
Supplemental Material for Were They Appealing to the Sun? On Why Cones and Tetrahedra Were So Popular at the Dawn of Civilization	26
Supplemental Material for Lost in Digitization: The Physical Format of Creative Work Affects Authenticity Perceptions	24
Supplemental Material for Conceptualizing and Measuring Ability Emotional Creativity	23
Supplemental Material for How Much Does Performance Quality Matter in Musical Emotion Induction? Main Effects and Interaction Effects With Listener Features	23
Supplemental Material for Creative Achievement and Individual Differences: Associations Across and Within the Domains of Creativity	22
Supplemental Material for An Exploratory Study of Historical Representations of Love in an Art Gallery Exhibition	22
Supplemental Material for Vigilance and Social Chills With Music: Evidence for Two Types of Musical Chills	21
Supplemental Material for Aesthetic Judgments of Music: Reliability, Consistency, Criteria, Self-Insight, and Expertise	20
Supplemental Material for Visual Exploration Mediates the Influence of Personal Traits on Responses to Artworks in an Art Gallery Setting	19
The good, the bad, and the complex: A mini meta-analysis of integrative complexity, entertainment, and perceptions of quality.	18
Supplemental Material for Melody in Poems and Songs: Fundamental Statistical Properties Predict Aesthetic Evaluation	18
Board games enhance creativity: Evidence from two studies.	18
Supplemental Material for Exploration of Discriminant Validity in Divergent Thinking Tasks: A Meta-Analysis	18
Comparing effects of visual thinking strategies in a classroom and a museum.	17
What’s in a name? Book title salience and the psychology of fiction.	17
Eye and lips in artistic profiles.	17
How much does performance quality matter in musical emotion induction? Main effects and interaction effects with listener features.	17
Music-evoked pleasantness modulates theta synchronization within a fronto-temporal music-related network.	16

Art as communication: Fulfilling Gricean communication principles predicts aesthetic liking.	16
Original photographic art induces self-transcendent emotions.	16
Mental imagery in aesthetic appreciation and the understanding of the self and others.	15
A survey of the conceptual structure of aesthetic response to sports.	15
Participation in intensive orchestral music training does not cause gains in executive functioning, self-perception, or attitudes toward school in young children.	15
The impact of fiction reading on social outcomes: A 4-week randomized controlled study.	15
The effect of visual recognition on listener choices when searching for music in playlists.	14
Applying bodily sensation maps to art-elicited emotions: An explorative study.	14
Editors' introduction August 2022.	14
Taking the good with the bad: The impact of forecasting timing and valence on idea evaluation and creativity.	14
Does the frame of an artwork matter? Cultural framing and aesthetic judgments for abstract and representational art.	14
Individual differences in aesthetic engagement and proneness to aesthetic chill: Associations with stress-related growth orientation.	13
Differential effects of film genre on viewers’ absorption, identification, and enjoyment.	13
Musical ethnocultural identity, happiness, and internalizing symptoms in youth.	13
Lost in digitization: The physical format of creative work affects authenticity perceptions.	13
Preference for curvature in paintings extends to museum context.	12
Music self-efficacy, self-esteem, and help-seeking orientation among amateur musicians who use online music tutorials.	11
Temporal individual differences and creativity: An exploratory investigation.	11
Constraints to malevolent innovation in terrorist attacks.	11
Conceptualizing and measuring ability emotional creativity.	11
Stereo viewing upsets cinematic continuity: Filmic cuts are more salient in 3D than in 2D movies.	11
Does activist art have the capacity to raise awareness in audiences?—A study on climate change art at the ArtCOP21 event in Paris.	11
Narrative aesthetic absorption in audiobooks is predicted by blink rate and acoustic features.	10
Supplemental Material for Dynamic Complexity in Audiovisual Aesthetics	10
Imaginings from an unfamiliar world: Narrative engagement with a new musical system.	10
Awe is associated with creative personality, convergent creativity, and everyday creativity.	10
Shaping film: A quantitative formal analysis of contemporary empathy-eliciting Hollywood cinema.	10
The impact of top performers in creative groups.	10
A novel coding scheme for assessing responses in divergent thinking: An embodied approach.	10
Do parents and children perceive creativity similarly? A dyadic study of creative mindsets.	10
Beauty is in the brain networks of the beholder: An exploratory functional magnetic resonance imaging study.	10
Supplemental Material for Who Is the Most Creative of Them All?: Art Bias in Laypersons’ Explicit and Implicit Beliefs	10
Universality and specificity of the kindchenschema: A cross-cultural study on cute rectangles.	10
Figuring out what they feel: Exposure to eudaimonic narrative fiction is related to mentalizing ability.	10
Lexical divergence in collaborative creativity.	9
Supplemental Material for Further Validating the VAIAK: Defining a Psychometric Model, Configural Measurement Invariance, Reliability, and Practical Guidelines	9
On the overlap between aesthetic disposition, cultural eclecticism, and openness: An interdisciplinary study.	9
The role of asking more complex questions in creative thinking.	9
Creative idea forecasting: The effect of task exposure on idea evaluation.	9
Prosocial motivation and creativity in the arts and sciences: Qualitative and quantitative evidence.	9
A divergent approach to pareidolias—Exploring creativity in a novel way.	9
Creative minecrafters: Cognitive and personality determinants of creativity, novelty, and usefulness in minecraft.	8
The impact of social exclusion on malevolent creativity: The mediating role of prosocial motivation.	8
Exploration of discriminant validity in divergent thinking tasks: A meta-analysis.	8
Processing fluency, processing style, and aesthetic response to artistic photographs.	8
The Aesthetic Responsiveness Assessment (AReA): A screening tool to assess individual differences in responsiveness to art in English and German.	8
In the dark cube: Movie theater context enhances the valuation and aesthetic experience of watching films.	8
The time-course of fixations in representational paintings: A cross-cultural study.	8
What is good is beautiful (and what isn’t, isn’t): How moral character affects perceived facial attractiveness.	8
The neglect of idea diversity in creative idea generation and evaluation.	8

The utility of divergent and convergent thinking in the problem construction processes during creative problem-solving.	7
Supplemental Material for Who Likes the Grotesque? Mapping Individual Differences in Liking of Grotesque Artworks	7
Does it kill the imagination dead? The effect of film versus reading on mental imagery.	7
Supplemental Material for Increasing Music Preference Through Guided Self-Framing: A Comparison of Historical and Imaginative Approaches	7
Supplemental Material for Emotion, Embodiment, and Aesthetic Appraisal: The Impact of Interoceptive Abilities and Art Type	7
The textual features of fiction that appeal to readers: Emotion and abstractness.	7
Applying German word vectors to assess flexibility performance in the associative fluency task.	7
Supplemental Material for A Multifactorial Model of Visual Imagery and Its Relationship to Creativity and the Vividness of Visual Imagery Questionnaire	7
Personality traits as predictors of work creativity: A comparison between self- and other-reports.	7
Supplemental Material for The Aesthetic Quality Model: Complexity and Randomness as Foundations of Visual Beauty by Signaling Quality	7
The visual language of pain: The role of rendering style and pain type in aesthetic and empathetic appraisals of painful images.	7
Creative thinking and executive functions: Associations and training effects in adolescents.	7
Understanding metaphor in art: Distinguishing literal giants from metaphorical challenges.	7
Differentiating types of cinematographic shot changes by cut through an EEG power spectral analysis.	7
The role of imagery and emotion in the aesthetic appeal of music, poetry, and paintings.	7
Visual preference for abstract curvature and for interior spaces: Beyond undergraduate student samples.	7
Supplemental Material for Creative Mindset Induction Affects Beliefs but Not Creative Task Performance	7
Impact of contextualizing information on aesthetic experience and psychophysiological responses to art in a museum: A naturalistic randomized controlled trial.	7
Reliability and validity of a novel Ambulatory Battery of Creativity (ABC).	7
The aesthetic quality model: Complexity and randomness as foundations of visual beauty by signaling quality.	6
Increasing music preference through guided self-framing: A comparison of historical and imaginative approaches.	6
The role of transparency in color preferences: Sweetness expectation and preference for translucency.	6
Supplemental Material for Implicit Responses in the Judgment of Attractiveness in Faces With Differing Levels of Makeup	6
Supplemental Material for A Computational Approach to Studying Aesthetic Judgments of Ambiguous Artworks	6
Trust the process: The effects of iteration in children’s creative processes on their creative products.	6
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.	6
Supplemental Material for Paths to Transformation Across Contemporary Reading Practices: The Role of Motivations and Genre Preferences	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
How constraints impact creativity: An interaction paradigm.	6
Creative mindset induction affects beliefs but not creative task performance.	6
Visual perception of the built environment in virtual reality: A systematic characterization of human aesthetic experience in spaces with curved boundaries.	6
Supplemental Material for Motivation to Make Music Matters: Daily Autonomous Motivation, Flow, and Well-Being in Hobby Musicians	6
Supplemental Material for When Rule Breaking in Art Falls Flat: Cultural Tightness Deflates Deviant Artists’ Impact	6
Lofty aims, limited actors, fewer artifacts: A sociocultural analysis of Confucian conceptions of creativity and innovation.	6
Color’s perceptual diversity and categorical harmony improve aesthetic experience.	5
Self-awareness of musical ability.	5
An empirical assessment of cinematic continuity.	5
Review of Integrated care for the traumatized: A whole-person approach.	5
Patterns of psychological vulnerabilities and resources in artists and nonartists.	5
Supplemental Material for D-I-WHAT? Identifying Creative Domains in Do-It-Yourself Videos on YouTube	5
Supplemental Material for Does the Frame of an Artwork Matter? Cultural Framing and Aesthetic Judgments for Abstract and Representational Art	5
Supplemental Material for Pupil Dilation Is Driven by Perceptions of Naturalness of Color Composition in Paintings	5
Effect of hedonic contrasts on movie appreciation.	5
From Perugino to Picasso: Holistic processing of faces in paintings.	5
Content warnings reduce aesthetic appreciation of visual art.	5
Sharing research outcomes with traditional owners.	5
Supplemental Material for Presenting TaMuNaBe: A Taxonomy of Museum Navigation Behaviors	5
Supplemental Material for Music-Evoked Pleasantness Modulates Theta Synchronization Within a Fronto-Temporal Music-Related Network	5
Supplemental Material for Self-Regulation for Creative Activity: The Same or Different Across Domains?	5
Vigilance and social chills with music: Evidence for two types of musical chills.	5
Don't go with your gut: Exploring the role of motivation in aesthetic experiences.	5
Not just for decoration: How the arts complement science, technology, engineering, and mathematics learning.	5
Pupil dilation is driven by perceptions of naturalness of color composition in paintings.	5
Navigating creative paradoxes: Exploration and exploitation effort drive novelty and usefulness.	5
Supplemental Material for A New Test for Assessing Creative Flexibility of Perceptual Interpretation: The Figural Interpretation Quest	5
Supplemental Material for Color’s Perceptual Diversity and Categorical Harmony Improve Aesthetic Experience	5
Multilingual semantic distance: Automatic verbal creativity assessment in many languages.	5
Smooth as glass and hard as stone? On the conceptual structure of the aesthetics of materials.	4
Physiological synchrony in audiences of live concerts.	4
Cross-cultural investigation into the associations of fiction reading habits with mentalizing skills and stereotyping among adults in the United Kingdom and Japan.	4
Professional status matters: Differences in flow proneness between professional and amateur contemporary musicians.	4
How momentary affect impacts retrospective evaluations of musical experiences.	4
Groovin’ to the cultural beat: Preferences for danceable music represent cultural affordances for high-arousal negative emotions.	4
Motivation to make music matters: Daily autonomous motivation, flow, and well-being in hobby musicians.	4
Free association ability distinguishes highly creative artists from scientists: Findings from the Big-C Project.	4
How do examples impact divergent thinking? The interplay between associative and executive processes.	4
Is a “real” artwork better than a reproduction? A meta-analysis of the genuineness effect.	4
One hundred and fifty years after Fechner: A view from the “middle of the storm”.	4
Exploring barriers to and drivers of participatory arts engagement in early adolescence.	4
The benefits of drawing to regulate sadness and anger: Distraction versus expression.	4
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	4
Predictors of cognitive and motor creativity in childhood.	4
Themes and trends in creativity research between 1894 and 2022: A topic modeling approach.	4
Editors’ introduction to part 2 of the special issue on racial and cultural issues.	4
Seeking (dis)order: Ordering appeals but slight disorder and complex order trigger interest.	4
An initial examination of computer programs as creative works.	4
The effect of self-expansion on creativity: Examining the role of novelty experiences.	4
Don't throw the “bad” ideas away! Multidimensional top scoring increases reliability of divergent thinking tasks.	4
From “a nothing” to something special: Art as a space of holding attunement in the creative experience of Holocaust survivor artists.	4

Editors’ introduction.	4
Interdependencies between openness and creativity of fifth graders.	4
Judging beauty and liking: The effects of personal intuitions and task instructions.	4
Supplemental Material for More Recruitment but Inefficient Performance: The Effects of Creativity Anxiety on Consciously Augmenting State Creativity in the Figural Domain	4
Radically revolutionary or pretty flowers? The impact of curatorial narrative of artistic deviance on perceived artist influence.	4
Who are the magicians? Their personality traits.	4
Beyond the big personality dimensions: Consistency and specificity of associations between the Dark Triad traits and creativity.	4
Personally significant forms of discrete experiences and recurring activities in the arts and humanities in a representative sample of U.S. residents.	4
Perceiving versus scrutinizing: Viewers do not default to awareness of small spatiotemporal inconsistencies in movie edits.	4
“I may look fake but I’m real where it counts”: Positivity and authenticity in the songs of Dolly Parton.	4
The model of failed foregrounding.	4
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.	4