Psychology of Aesthetics Creativity and the Arts

Papers
(The TQCC of Psychology of Aesthetics Creativity and the Arts is 4. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)
ArticleCitations
Measuring divergent thinking originality with human raters and text-mining models: A psychometric comparison of methods.54
Order, complexity, and aesthetic appreciation.54
Intellectual risk taking: A moderating link between creative confidence and creative behavior?50
The Vienna Art Interest and Art Knowledge Questionnaire (VAIAK): A unified and validated measure of art interest and art knowledge.42
The motor creativity paradox: Constraining to release degrees of freedom.37
Correlation = causation? Music training, psychology, and neuroscience.36
Does intelligence strengthen creative metacognition?36
Does thinking about Einstein make people entity theorists? Examining the malleability of creative mindsets.27
Does activist art have the capacity to raise awareness in audiences?—A study on climate change art at the ArtCOP21 event in Paris.24
Reflection in the creative process of early adolescents: The mediating roles of creative metacognition, self-efficacy, and self-concept.24
Quantifying the if, the when, and the what of the sublime: A survey and latent class analysis of incidence, emotions, and distinct varieties of personal sublime experiences.23
The relationship among different types of arts engagement, empathy, and prosocial behavior.23
What are the benefits of mind wandering to creativity?21
Divergent thinking and creative achievement—How strong is the link? An updated meta-analysis.20
The Aesthetic Responsiveness Assessment (AReA): A screening tool to assess individual differences in responsiveness to art in English and German.18
Measuring self-regulated learning during creative problem-solving with SRL microanalysis.18
Participation in life-review playback theater enhances mental health of community-dwelling older adults: A randomized controlled trial.18
Order, complexity, and aesthetic preferences for neatly organized compositions.17
Taking the good with the bad: The impact of forecasting timing and valence on idea evaluation and creativity.17
Mind wandering outside the box—About the role of off-task thoughts and their assessment during creative incubation.16
The role of information search in creative problem solving.15
From music making to affective well-being in everyday life: The mediating role of need satisfaction.15
The nature of perception and emotion in aesthetic appreciation: A response to Makin’s challenge to empirical aesthetics.15
Testing equal odds in creativity research.15
Improvisational theater classes improve self-concept.15
The neglect of idea diversity in creative idea generation and evaluation.15
Vulnerability to psychopathology and creativity: The role of approach-avoidance motivation and novelty seeking.14
Do you feel like I do? A study of spontaneous and deliberate emotion sharing and understanding between artists and perceivers of installation art.14
Exploration of discriminant validity in divergent thinking tasks: A meta-analysis.13
Olfactory and gustatory beauty: Aesthetic emotions and trait appreciation of beauty.13
Automated scoring of figural creativity using a convolutional neural network.12
Self-regulation for creative activity: The same or different across domains?12
Facing the sublime: Physiological correlates of the relationship between fear and the sublime.12
A novel coding scheme for assessing responses in divergent thinking: An embodied approach.12
Gender differences in creative potential: A meta-analysis of mean differences and variability.12
Creativity and unethicality: A systematic review and meta-analysis.12
An improved taxonomy of creativity measures based on salient task attributes.12
What types of daydreaming predict creativity? Laboratory and experience sampling evidence.12
Development of the R library “jrt”: Automated item response theory procedures for judgment data and their application with the consensual assessment technique.12
Creative adaptability and emotional well-being during the COVID-19 pandemic: An international study.12
The creative self: Do people distinguish creative self-perceptions, efficacy, and personal identity?12
How constraints impact creativity: An interaction paradigm.12
The Vienna Art Picture System (VAPS): A data set of 999 paintings and subjective ratings for art and aesthetics research.11
Making the CASE for shadow creativity.11
Inspired by art: Higher aesthetic appeal elicits increased felt inspiration in a creative writing task.11
Selection into, and academic benefits from, arts-related courses in middle school among low-income, ethnically diverse youth.11
Musical aesthetic sensitivity.11
Music and verbal ability—A twin study of genetic and environmental associations.10
Physiological synchrony in audiences of live concerts.10
Effectiveness of drama-based therapies on mental health outcomes: A systematic review and meta-analysis of controlled studies.10
Navigating creative paradoxes: Exploration and exploitation effort drive novelty and usefulness.10
Beyond the big personality dimensions: Consistency and specificity of associations between the Dark Triad traits and creativity.10
Cultural withdrawal during COVID-19 lockdown: Impact in a sample of 828 artists and recipients of highbrow culture in Germany.9
Empirical development of a screening method for mental, social, and physical wellness in amateur and professional circus artists.9
Do parents and children perceive creativity similarly? A dyadic study of creative mindsets.9
Explaining standardized educational test scores: The role of creativity above and beyond GPA and personality.8
Constructing the associations between creative role identity, creative self-efficacy, and teaching for creativity for primary and secondary teachers.8
Learning to see by learning to draw: A longitudinal analysis of the relationship between representational drawing training and visuospatial skill.8
The relationship between lifetime book reading and empathy in adolescents: Examining transportability as a moderator.8
Effect of dialogical appreciation based on visual thinking strategies on art-viewing strategies.8
Gravitating toward the arts during the COVID-19 pandemic.8
Fifty years later and still working: Rediscovering Paulus et al’s (1970) automated scoring of divergent thinking tests.8
The pleasures of reading fiction explained by flow, presence, identification, suspense, and cognitive involvement.8
Selection into, and academic benefits from, middle school dance elective courses among urban youth.8
Ambiguity and beauty: Japanese-German cross-cultural comparisons on aesthetic evaluation of haiku poetry.8
The role of expertise in visual exploration and aesthetic judgment of residential building façades: An eye-tracking study.8
The aesthetic experience of live concerts: Self-reports and psychophysiology.8
What is good is beautiful (and what isn’t, isn’t): How moral character affects perceived facial attractiveness.8
Social exclusion increases antisocial tendencies: Evidence from retaliatory ideation in a malevolent creativity task.7
Liking for abstract and representational art: National identity as an art appreciation heuristic.7
Impact of contextualizing information on aesthetic experience and psychophysiological responses to art in a museum: A naturalistic randomized controlled trial.7
Visual preference for abstract curvature and for interior spaces: Beyond undergraduate student samples.7
Why people press “like”: A new measure for aesthetic appeal derived from Instagram data.7
Transactions between adolescents’ after school activities and divergent thinking.7
Experiencing musical beauty: Emotional subtypes and their physiological and musico-acoustic correlates.7
A divergent approach to pareidolias—Exploring creativity in a novel way.7
Creative idea forecasting: The effect of task exposure on idea evaluation.7
Effects of environmental experience on audience experience of street performance (busking).7
Dual pathways in creative writing processes.7
Temporal individual differences and creativity: An exploratory investigation.7
Prosocial motivation and creativity in the arts and sciences: Qualitative and quantitative evidence.7
From dropping out to dropping in: Exploring why individuals cease participation in musical activities and the support needed to reengage them.6
Individual differences in aesthetic engagement and proneness to aesthetic chill: Associations with awe.6
Is there a general “art fatigue” effect? A cross-paradigm, cross-cultural study of repeated art viewing in the laboratory.6
Seeking (dis)order: Ordering appeals but slight disorder and complex order trigger interest.6
Creative minecrafters: Cognitive and personality determinants of creativity, novelty, and usefulness in minecraft.6
Predictors of creativity in young people: Using frequentist and Bayesian approaches in estimating the importance of individual and contextual factors.6
Reexamining subjective creativity assessments in science tasks: An application of the rater-mediated assessment framework and many-facet Rasch model.6
Preference for paintings is also affected by curvature.6
Is a “real” artwork better than a reproduction? A meta-analysis of the genuineness effect.6
In the dark cube: Movie theater context enhances the valuation and aesthetic experience of watching films.6
Personality of Nobel Prize laureates: Differences across domains and relationship to public recognition.6
Construction and validation of a computerized creativity assessment tool with automated scoring based on deep-learning techniques.6
Contextualizing information enhances the experience of environmental art.6
Two routes to aesthetic preference, one route to aesthetic inference.6
Interdependencies between openness and creativity of fifth graders.6
Music self-efficacy, self-esteem, and help-seeking orientation among amateur musicians who use online music tutorials.6
Eudaimonia, hedonia, and fan behavior: Examining the motives of fans of fictional texts.5
A MAD method to assess idea novelty: Improving validity of automatic scoring using maximum associative distance (MAD).5
What counts as aesthetics in science? A bibliometric analysis and visualization of the scientific literature from 1970 to 2018.5
Pushing the boundaries of reality: Science fiction, creativity, and the moral imagination.5
The effect of temperament, expertise in art, and formal elements of paintings on their aesthetic appraisal.5
The shower effect: Mind wandering facilitates creative incubation during moderately engaging activities.5
Vigilance and social chills with music: Evidence for two types of musical chills.5
How stable is the creative self-concept? A latent state-trait analysis.5
Worth the effort? Comparing different youtube vlog production styles in terms of viewers’ identification, parasocial response, immersion, and enjoyment.5
Is humor temperament associated with being creative, original, and funny? A tale of three studies.5
The Goldsmiths Dance Sophistication Index (Gold-DSI): A psychometric tool to assess individual differences in dance experience.5
Viewers recognize the process of creating artworks with admiration: Evidence from experimental manipulation of prior experience.5
Enhancing and explaining art-making for mood-repair: The benefits of positive growth-oriented instructions and quiet ego contemplation.5
Examining the quality of art in STEAM learning activities.5
Free association ability distinguishes highly creative artists from scientists: Findings from the Big-C Project.5
The artwork and the beholder: A probabilistic model for the joint scaling of persons and objects.5
Does the typeface on album cover influence expectations and perception of music?5
Can art promote understanding? A review of the psychology and neuroscience of aesthetic cognitivism.5
A Model of Creative Aging (MOCA): Unlocking the potential of constraints for creativity in older adults.5
Theater majors compared with nonmajors: Investigating temperament and emotion beliefs, awareness, regulation, and perception.5
The use of drawing as an emotion regulation technique with children.5
Great expectations: Misleading effects of images in the alternate uses task.5
Patterns of psychological vulnerabilities and resources in artists and nonartists.5
Creative thinking and executive functions: Associations and training effects in adolescents.5
Relationships between depression, self-reflection, brooding, and creative thinking in a psychiatric sample.4
Figuring out what they feel: Exposure to eudaimonic narrative fiction is related to mentalizing ability.4
Examining associations between montage painting imagery and symptoms of depression and posttraumatic stress among active-duty military service members.4
The art of feeling different: Exploring the diversity of emotions experienced during an art museum visit.4
Artificial intelligence and art: Identifying the aesthetic judgment factors that distinguish human- and machine-generated artwork.4
Consensual assessment in the new domain of e-textiles: Comparing insights from expert, quasi-expert, and novice judges.4
The influence of formats and preferences on the aesthetic experience of classical music concert streams.4
Audience responses to diverse superheroes: The roles of gender and race in forging connections with media characters in superhero franchise films.4
Less is more: The effect of visiting duration on the perceived restorativeness of museums.4
Multilingual semantic distance: Automatic verbal creativity assessment in many languages.4
The impact of top performers in creative groups.4
Awe is associated with creative personality, convergent creativity, and everyday creativity.4
With, against, or without? Familiarity and copresence increase interactional dissensus and relational plasticity in freely improvising duos.4
Creative achievement and individual differences: Associations across and within the domains of creativity.4
Development and validation of the Aesthetic Processing Preference Scale (APPS).4
Task instructions influence the effects of impaired self-control on creative cognition.4
Open to laugh: The role of openness to experience in humor production ability.4
Developmental trends in creative ability: A cross-sectional examination of figural and verbal domains across the school-age years.4
Collaboration, cognitive effort, and self-reference in United Kingdom top 5 pop music lyrics 1960–2015.4
Further validating the VAIAK: Defining a psychometric model, configural measurement invariance, reliability, and practical guidelines.4
The utility of divergent and convergent thinking in the problem construction processes during creative problem-solving.4
Processing fluency, processing style, and aesthetic response to artistic photographs.4
The influence of anger and anxiety on idea generation: Taking a closer look at integral and incidental emotion effects.4
It is not always better to have more ideas: Serial order and the trade-off between fluency and elaboration in divergent thinking tasks.4
Accounting for expressions of curiosity and enjoyment during music listening.4
Beauty is not in the eye but in the inner head: Evidence from environmental advertising.4
The temporal instability of aesthetic preferences.4
The benefits of drawing to regulate sadness and anger: Distraction versus expression.4
Radically revolutionary or pretty flowers? The impact of curatorial narrative of artistic deviance on perceived artist influence.4
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