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	81
Supplemental Material for Increasing Music Preference Through Guided Self-Framing: A Comparison of Historical and Imaginative Approaches	66
What’s in a name? Book title salience and the psychology of fiction.	48
Editors' introduction August 2022.	38
On the overlap between aesthetic disposition, cultural eclecticism, and openness: An interdisciplinary study.	36
Engaged and confused: Aesthetic appreciation of live and screened contemporary dance.	34
Supplemental Material for Who Likes the Grotesque? Mapping Individual Differences in Liking of Grotesque Artworks	32
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	28
A computational approach to studying aesthetic judgments of ambiguous artworks.	28
Mental imagery in aesthetic appreciation and the understanding of the self and others.	28
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 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.	24
Touch the color change: Representation of color change using tactile grating patterns.	24
The effect of imagery on the comprehension and aesthetic appreciation of Chinese ancient poetry.	24
Testing equal odds in creativity research.	23
How do examples impact divergent thinking? The interplay between associative and executive processes.	22
An improved taxonomy of creativity measures based on salient task attributes.	22
The influence of culture on the viewing of Western and East Asian paintings.	21
Focus of attention affects togetherness experiences and body interactivity in piano duos.	21
Color’s perceptual diversity and categorical harmony improve aesthetic experience.	21
Supplemental Material for A New Test for Assessing Creative Flexibility of Perceptual Interpretation: The Figural Interpretation Quest	20
Exploring barriers to and drivers of participatory arts engagement in early adolescence.	20
Supplemental Material for A Computational Approach to Studying Aesthetic Judgments of Ambiguous Artworks	20
The effect of self-expansion on creativity: Examining the role of novelty experiences.	20

Supplemental Material for A View Worth Talking About: The Influence of Social Interaction on Aesthetic Experience and Well-Being Outcomes in the Gallery	18
Supplemental Material for Gender Differences in Creative Potential: A Meta-Analysis of Mean Differences and Variability	18
Staged and gendered pathways from parenting behaviors to Chinese students’ creative thinking: The roles of autonomous motivation and creative self-efficacy.	18
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	18
Measuring storyworld possible selves in depression stories: Linguistic features, personal relevance, and the narrative experience.	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 Original Photographic Art Induces Self-Transcendent Emotions	17
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
Pushing the boundaries of reality: Science fiction, creativity, and the moral imagination.	15
Makeup works by modifying factors of facial beauty.	15
Creative achievement and individual differences: Associations across and within the domains of creativity.	15
Supplemental Material for Photographs That Repulse or Entice: Sense-Making and Emotional Experiencing of Artistic Photographs	15
The Aesthetic Responsiveness Assessment (AReA) in Farsi language: A scale validation and cultural adaptation study.	14
Adaptation of the Runco Ideational Behavior Scale into Turkish: A confirmatory factor analysis and Rasch study.	14
An itsy bitsy audience: Live performance facilitates infants’ attention and heart rate synchronization.	14
Editor’s introduction.	14
Object-based practice effects recover the graphic object concept in Alzheimer’s dementia.	14
Supplemental Material for Effectiveness of Drama-Based Therapies on Mental Health Outcomes: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Controlled Studies	14
A systematic quantitative review of divergent thinking assessments.	13
The motor creativity paradox: Constraining to release degrees of freedom.	13
Supplemental Material for Effect of Hedonic Contrasts on Movie Appreciation	13
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
Cathedrals of sound: Predictors of the sublime and the beautiful in music, images, and music with images.	13
Do you chill when I chill? A cross-cultural study of strong emotional responses to music.	13
Supplemental Material for Imaginings From an Unfamiliar World: Narrative Engagement With a New Musical System	13
Editors’ introduction April 2024.	12
Supplemental Material for The Influence of Culture on the Viewing of Western and East Asian Paintings	12
Editors’ Introduction to Part 1 of the Special Issue on Racial and Cultural Issues.	12
How filmmakers guide the eye: The effect of average shot length on intersubject attentional synchrony.	12
Were they appealing to the sun? On why cones and tetrahedra were so popular at the dawn of civilization.	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
Artists have superior local and global processing abilities but show a preference for initially drawing globally.	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 Spirit Behind Appearance: Facial Motion Increases Facial Attractiveness Through Perceived Vitality	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
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
A Model of Creative Aging (MOCA): Unlocking the potential of constraints for creativity in older adults.	11
Supplemental Material for Visuospatial Components of Drawing Skill Correlate With Mental Transformation Performance	11
Automated scoring of figural creativity using a convolutional neural network.	10
Big-C creativity in artists and scientists is associated with more random global but less random local fMRI functional connectivity.	10
Overexcitabilities and bidirectional development in playfulness and creative potential among kindergarten children.	10
The nature of perception and emotion in aesthetic appreciation: A response to Makin’s challenge to empirical aesthetics.	10
The relationship between mobile phone use and creative ideation among college students: The roles of critical thinking and creative self-efficacy.	10
“Like static noise in a beautiful landscape”: A mixed-methods approach to rationales and features of disliked voices in popular music.	10
Supplemental Material for Applying Bodily Sensation Maps to Art-Elicited Emotions: An Explorative Study	10
The art of feeling different: Exploring the diversity of emotions experienced during an art museum visit.	10
Supplemental Material for The Temporal Instability of Aesthetic Preferences	10

Subjective emotional instances surpass formal perceptual features in shaping the aesthetic appeal of artworks.	10
Editors’ introduction.	10
Supplemental Material for The Appeal of Insight: Why Riddles and Whodunits Captivate Us	9
Supplemental Material for Aesthetic Preferences Among Spatial Patterns: Large-Scale Experiment, Comprehensive Exploration, and a Three-Component Regularity-Based Model	9
Understanding metaphor in art: Distinguishing literal giants from metaphorical challenges.	9
Beyond the single picture: Aesthetic experiences with photography series in an exhibition context.	9
Automated feedback and creativity: On the role of metacognitive monitoring in divergent thinking.	9
Universality and specificity of the kindchenschema: A cross-cultural study on cute rectangles.	9
Imaginings from an unfamiliar world: Narrative engagement with a new musical system.	9
Aesthetic judgments of music: Reliability, consistency, criteria, self-insight, and expertise.	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
Reliability and validity of a novel Ambulatory Battery of Creativity (ABC).	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 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
Supplemental Material for Emotion, Embodiment, and Aesthetic Appraisal: The Impact of Interoceptive Abilities and Art Type	8
What types of daydreaming predict creativity? Laboratory and experience sampling evidence.	8
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 Creative Mindset Induction Affects Beliefs but Not Creative Task Performance	8
In the dark cube: Movie theater context enhances the valuation and aesthetic experience of watching films.	8
The textual features of fiction that appeal to readers: Emotion and abstractness.	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
Art as communication: Fulfilling Gricean communication principles predicts aesthetic liking.	8
Processing fluency, processing style, and aesthetic response to artistic photographs.	7
The time-course of fixations in representational paintings: A cross-cultural study.	7
Supplemental Material for Automated Feedback and Creativity: On the Role of Metacognitive Monitoring in Divergent Thinking	7
Content warnings reduce aesthetic appreciation of visual art.	7
Supplemental Material for D-I-WHAT? Identifying Creative Domains in Do-It-Yourself Videos on YouTube	7
Increasing music preference through guided self-framing: A comparison of historical and imaginative approaches.	7
The Aesthetic Responsiveness Assessment (AReA): A screening tool to assess individual differences in responsiveness to art in English and German.	7
Experiencing musical beauty: Emotional subtypes and their physiological and musico-acoustic correlates.	7
Less is more: The effect of visiting duration on the perceived restorativeness of museums.	7
Don't throw the “bad” ideas away! Multidimensional top scoring increases reliability of divergent thinking tasks.	7
Evaluation of aesthetic pleasure in schizophrenia spectrum disorders, using the eye-tracking methodology.	7
Visual perception of the built environment in virtual reality: A systematic characterization of human aesthetic experience in spaces with curved boundaries.	7
Narrative aesthetic absorption in audiobooks is predicted by blink rate and acoustic features.	7
Vigilance and social chills with music: Evidence for two types of musical chills.	7
Patterns of psychological vulnerabilities and resources in artists and nonartists.	7
Lofty aims, limited actors, fewer artifacts: A sociocultural analysis of Confucian conceptions of creativity and innovation.	7
Review of Why theatre education matters: Understanding its cognitive, social, and emotional benefits.	7
Supplemental Material for Beyond the Here and Now: Leveraging Distal Mental Simulation for Creative Breakthroughs	6
Supplemental Material for Presenting TaMuNaBe: A Taxonomy of Museum Navigation Behaviors	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
Development and initial validation of the State Spontaneity Scale.	6
Acting gender: Actors’ experiences of gender role conformity and hopes for their characters.	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
What a great feeling! The “experiencing art at school” program to engage children in visual arts and improve their emotional states.	6
How stable is the creative self-concept? A latent state-trait analysis.	6
Multilingual semantic distance: Automatic verbal creativity assessment in many languages.	6
Editors’ introduction, February 2023.	6
Supplemental Material for Paths to Transformation Across Contemporary Reading Practices: The Role of Motivations and Genre Preferences	6
Supplemental Material for Is Humor Temperament Associated With Being Creative, Original, and Funny? A Tale of Three Studies	6
Review of Mary Climbs In: The Journeys of Bruce Springsteen’s Women Fans.	6
Audience responses to diverse superheroes: The roles of gender and race in forging connections with media characters in superhero franchise films.	6
Together in the dark?: Investigating the understanding and feeling of intended emotions between viewers and professional artists at the Venice Biennale.	5
Neural dissociation between computational and subjective image complexity.	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
Preference for paintings is also affected by curvature.	5
Mind wandering outside the box—About the role of off-task thoughts and their assessment during creative incubation.	5
Fifty years later and still working: Rediscovering Paulus et al’s (1970) automated scoring of divergent thinking tests.	5
Images influencing images: How pictorial context affects the emotional interpretation of art photographs.	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
“Kneweth one who makes these notes . . .”: Personality, individual differences, and liking of nouveau roman and existentialist literature and film.	5
More light about each other: Theater education as a context for developing social awareness and relationship skills.	5
Supplemental Material for The Effect of Implicit Theories of Human Beauty and Perceived Pressure on Cosmetic Consumption	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
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
Supplemental Material for Inspired by Art: Higher Aesthetic Appeal Elicits Increased Felt Inspiration in a Creative Writing Task	5
Supplemental Material for Challenging Magicians’ Intuitive Insights: The Role of Audience Participation in Experiencing a Magic Trick	5
Supplemental Material for The Usual Miracles: How Narrative Style Affects the Processing of Counterintuitive Concepts	5
Editors’ introduction.	5
Supplemental Material for Development and Validation of the Aesthetic Processing Preference Scale (APPS)	5
Supplemental Material for Cultural Diversity in Oculometric Parameters When Viewing Art and Non-Art	5

Visual arts activities relate to interest and cortisol for children in Head Start preschool.	5
Does divergent thinking relate to expertise? Introducing a novel test of creative ideation in music.	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
The aesthetic experience of live concerts: Self-reports and psychophysiology.	5
The temporal instability of aesthetic preferences.	5
Some like it sharp: Song familiarity influences musical preference for absolute tuning.	5
Back where I belong: Rereading as a risk-free pathway to social connection.	5