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Papers

(The median citation count of Empirical Studies of the Arts is 0. 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 2021-10-01 to 2025-10-01.)

Article	Citations
Musical Activity as Avoidance-Based Emotion Regulation During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Evidence Across Continents	19
Comparative Designs Reveal Preferences for Human-Generated Rather Than AI-Generated art	16
The Relations of Empathy and Gender to Aesthetic Response and Aesthetic Inference of Visual Artworks	12
The Aesthetic Emotion Lexicon: A Literature Review of Emotion Words Used by Researchers to Describe Aesthetic Experiences	11
Wikipedia and Shostakovich Meets Goya: Elaborative Narration and Music Enhance Affect Derived From Art	9
I Love Music! It Harmonizes Me! : Listening to Music Based on Adaptive Function of Music Listening (AFML) and its Influence on Study Engagement in Physical Education – A Cross-Secti	8
Artist Names as Human Brands: Brand Determinants, Creation and co-Creation Mechanisms	8
An Aesthetic Model for Popular Illustration	7
Detection of Emotions in Artworks Using a Convolutional Neural Network Trained on Non-Artistic Images: A Methodology to Reduce the Cross-Depiction Problem	6
Examining the Mediating Effects of Cognitive Style on the Relation Between Music Competence and Creativity	5
What Elevates Music to a ‘Favorite’? On the Aesthetics of Music from the Perspective of Musical Taste	5
Education, Gender, and Blue-Chip Gallery Representation: The Importance of Educational Prestige in a Male-Dominated Art World	5
Immersed in Art: The Impact of Affinity for Technology Interaction and Hedonic Motivation on Aesthetic Experiences in Virtual Reality	4
Flourishing Aims of Art Museums: A Survey of Art Museum Professionals	4
AI Performer Bias: Listeners Like Music Less When They Think it was Performed by an AI	4
“Listening” to Paintings: Synergetic Effect of a Cross-Modal Experience on Subjective Perception	4
Emotional Regulation in Dance and Its Role in Emotional Expression: Evidence from Dance Majors	4
Ethos Theory of Music: Toward An Empirical Confirmation Through Moral Foundations Theory	4
Can Narrative Bibliotherapy Reduce Vulnerability to Eating Disorders? Evidence from a Reading Experiment	4
The Impact of Pseudo-Profound Bullshit Titles on Memory for Artist-Created and AI-Generated Art	3
Preference for Harmony: A Preference for Structural Simplicity, Familiarity, or Both?	3
Humans Prefer to See and Imagine Drawing Curved Objects	3
The Influence of News, Expert and Public Opinion on Painting Prices: An Empirical Analysis	3
Shades of Grey: Quantifying a Database of 18 Aesthetic Moods in Classical Chinese Poetry	3
Do Prestige and Animacy Matter to Art Experts? Exploring Social Learning, Signaling, Perceptual, and Cognitive Explanations	3

Drawing and Memory: What is the Content of Children’s Drawings and How Does it Differ From Their Verbal Reports?	3
Students’ Personal Experience vis-à-vis Personal Interest Towards Philippine Traditional Dances with Respect to Dance Steps, Music, Costume, and Dance History for Preservation Endeavors: Does it Matte	3
The Effects of Psychotic Tendencies on Aesthetic Preferences of Paintings	3
Exposure to Fernando Botero’s Art Is Associated with Lower Implicit Bias Against People with Obesity	2
Artists on Climate Change: Their Intended Impact and Audiences	2
Perceived Intense Emotions and Their Influence on Cultural Identification Processes: A Mixed-Method Study of a Classical Music Festival	2
Comparison of Audiovisual Components of Dance in Novices and Experts’ Aesthetic Interest Perceptions	2
Psychological Coaching for Performing Artists: Perceptions of and Reflections on Finding Ways to Manage Performance Anxiety	2
Can Fashion Aesthetics be Studied Empirically? The Preference Structure of Everyday Clothing Choices	2
Audiovisual Associations in Saint-Saëns’ Carnival of the Animals : A Cross-Cultural Investigation on the Role of Timbre	2
Three Forms of Tears at Art Museums: A Phenomenological Study of Viewers’ Tear-Shedding Experiences Through Blog Narratives	2
Understanding Consumer Preferences for Hedonic Furniture: A Push-Pull-Mooring Analysis	2
Effects of an Art Intervention Program Using Ambiguous Image-Text Interactions on Creative Thinking	2
Editorial	2
Artists and Mate Preferences: The Effects of Being a Painter and Intellectuality	2
The Influence of Demographic Factors on Word Usage in Texts Written About Artworks	2
Do American Critic Reviews Affect Film Consumption Abroad? The Brazilian Case	2
Aesthetic Disposition, Educational Capital, Personality Trait Openness, and Sex: A Study of French High-School Students	2
Effect of Pictorial Depth Cues on Illusory Spatial Depth of the Lin Family Garden	2
The Artistic Characteristics of Modern Calligraphy After 1985: An Exploration Based on Grounded Theory	2
Check-All-That-Apply and Storyworld Possible Selves: What Consumer Research Methods can do for the Study of Narrative Engagement	1
The Relation Between DJs Behavior and Their Audience's Positive Affect and Perception of the Show. A Field Study in Electronic Dance Music Clubs	1
Everyday Life vs Art: Effects of Framing on the Mode of Object Interpretation	1
The Poet is Speaking: A Case for Studying the Role of Auditory Imagery in Poetry-Elicited Emotions	1
Remembrances of Paul Locher	1
A Network Analysis of the Association Between Big Five Personality Traits and Sensitivity to Music Rewards	1
Bullshit (Sometimes) Makes the Art (Slightly) More Attractive: A Field Study in Gallery-Goers	1
A Phenomenological Microgenesis of Art Experience: A Qualitative Study of Zero Mass by Eric Orr	1
Spanish Validation of the Kaufman Domains of Creativity Scale (K-DOCS) and its Link with Attitude Towards Artistic Expression and Aesthetic Experience	1
Examining Facebook Groups Engaging in Reading Experiences: The Interactive Therapeutic Process Perspective	1
The Effects of Titles on the Aesthetic Evaluation of Japanese Poetry	1
On the Complexity of Literary and Popular Fiction	1
Evaluating the Structure of the Aesthetic Responsiveness Assessment (AReA) with Bootstrap Exploratory Graph Analysis	1
What Makes People Like Dreamcore Aesthetics? the Role of Trait Nostalgia in Preferences for Dreamcore Imagery	1
The Impact of Cross-Sensory Interaction Between Emotional Images and Musical Modes on the Aesthetic Evaluation of Neutral Stimuli	1
The Linguistic Structure of Haiku/Senryu and Its Evolution Over Time	1
Can Virtual Art Touch Your Heart?—The Impact of Virtual Reality Art on Affect Considering Individual Characteristics and Aesthetic Experiences	1
The Effect of Music Classes Conducted in Northern Cypriot Schools with the Kodály Approach on the Musical Development of Students: A Pilot Study	1
Designing Emotions as Mediators of Attitude Change from Socially-Focused Art Exhibitions: Two Studies of Matched Artist/Curator Intentions and Viewer Response on the Refugee Crisis and Climate Awarene	1
What Can Happen When We Look at Art?: An Exploratory Network Model and Latent Profile Analysis of Affective/Cognitive Aspects Underlying Shared, Supraordinate Responses	1
Effects of Prior Knowledge and Peer Assessment on the Quality of English as a Foreign Language Poetry Writing	1
An Aesthetic Emotion Model for Chinese Ming-Style Furniture Patterns	1
Transformed by Beauty: Aesthetic Appreciation Increases Abstract Thinking and Self-Transcendent Emotions in an Art Museum	0
Does Art Make a Difference? – An Experimental Investigation of Differential Perception and Processing in the Reception of Artistic and Non-Artistic Apocalyptic Climate Images	0
Curiosity Emerging From the Perception of Change in Music	0
Making Versus Viewing Art: Effects on Affect, Enjoyment, and Flow	0
Music Preferences and Their Associations With Uses of Music and Personality Factors and Facets	0
Emotional Responses to Music: The Essential Inclusion of Emotion Adaptability and Situational Context	0
Universal, Cultural, or Individual? An Intercultural Assessment of Shared Proportions of Private Taste in Aesthetic Appreciation	0
Psychological Determinants of Aesthetic and Affective Preferences for Nature and Urban Scenes: Anxiety, Nature Exposure, and Mental Imagery	0

The Cumulative Model for Empirical Research in the Arts: A Semiotic Answer to the Challenge of Interdisciplinarity	0
A Kind of Magic: Social Representations of Magic from Magicians and non-Magicians	0
Exploring the Evidence-Based Driving Factors of Innovation in Arts and Cultural Organizations	0
Effects of Theme, Form, and Language on Poetry Reading: Evidence From Chinese ESL Learners	0
Revolutionizing Dance Education Through the Assessment of Online Videoconferencing to Increase Participation in Dance: Learning Philippine Traditional Dances	0
The Twofold Role of Subjective Fluency in Displeasing but Preferable Visual Artworks: Self-Report and Eye-Tracking analysis	0
Aesthetic Dispositions, Aesthetic Engagement, and Meaning in Life	0
Symmetry as an Inter-Cultural Feature Constituting Beauty: Implicit and Explicit Beauty Evaluation of Visual Symmetry in Japan	0
Effects of Image Features and Personal Traits on Within- and Across-Participant Visual Aesthetic Consistencies	0
Oscars won by the Best Picture of the Year: An Empirical Analysis Across the History of Academy Awards (1929–2023)	0
Can the Arts Cure Pandemic Hearts? - Cultural Activity During the COVID-19 Pandemic and its Consequences for Psychological Well-Being	0
Evaluating the Temporal Effect of Image Features on Dynamic Aesthetic Experience of Generative art	0
Aesthetic Production in Clay Molding: Mental and Dynamically Embodied Action Mediate Between Formal and Material Aspects of Experience	0
Gaze Preferences to Male Contrapposto and Non-Contrapposto Postures	0
The Death of the Author: The Case of art Market	0
Visiting Virtual Museums: How Personality and Art-Related Individual Differences Shape Visitor Behavior in an Online Virtual Gallery	0
Quantitative Analysis of Visual Representation of Sign Elements in COVID-19 Context	0
Categorization and Aesthetic Preference: Examining Typicality and Novelty Across Rich and Poor Categories	0
The Important Role of Aesthetic Education in Universities: An Empirical Research of the Effects of Aesthetic Experience on the Emotions of University Students in China	0
Attitudes and Abracadabra: How Do Skeptical, Superstitious, and Paranormal Beliefs Predict Enjoying Performance Magic?	0
Comparing the Perception of In-Person and Digital Monitor Viewing of Paintings	0
Narrativity and Literariness Affect the Aesthetic Attitude in Text Reading	0
The Impact of Urban art on Wellbeing: A Laboratory Study	0
The Beauty of Nature Without People: An Investigation of the Roles of People, Nature, and Interpersonal Touch in Painting Preference	0
The Curation of Music Discovery: The Presentation of Unfamiliar Classical Music on Radio, Digital Playlists and Concert Programmes	0
A Comparative Analysis of the Impact of After-School Arts Programs on Executive Functions	0
How Do We Move in Front of Art? How Does This Relate to Art Experience? Linking Movement, Eye Tracking, Emotion, and Evaluations in a Gallery-Like Setting	0
Effects of Emotional Valence, Training Experience, and Audiovisual Dual Modality on Emotion in Dance	0
Literary and Aesthetic Competencies in Literature Course: Whether Innovative Information Technologies Hinder Their Growth?	0
An Evaluation of Reputation Using Online Auction Data for a Group of American Watercolorists	0
Musical Creativity Across the Lifespan: An Analysis of the Works of 921 Jazz Artists	0
The Cultural-Match Effect on Art Appreciation in Adolescents	0
Examining the Ability of Digital Visual Art Engagement to Cultivate Empathy and Social Connection	0
Attractive People Make Better Music? How Gender and Perceived Attractiveness Affect the Evaluation of Electronic Dance Music Artists	0
A Trade-off Between the Artistic Aesthetic Value and Market Value of Paintings With Naïve and Childlike Interest Complex	0
Probing the Extremes of Aesthetics: The Role of Typicality and Novelty in the Aesthetic Preference of Industrial Boilers	0
Emotion, Language and Aesthetic Expression: On Motherwell and His Art	0
Does Dance Expertise Enhance Sensitivity? A Comparative Study	0
Creators Matter. Perception and Pricing of Art Made by Human, Cyborgs and Humanoid Robots	0
What Makes People High in Openness to Experience Happy? The Mediating Effect of Arts Engagement	0
How Context and Painting Attributes Affect Aesthetic Judgment Across Expertise	0
The Drawing Effect: Does Drawing Really Enhance Recall Memory?	0
Unpacking the Antecedents of Word of Mouth and Electronic Word of Mouth in the Opera Sector: A Multimethodological Study Based on PLS and NCA	0
Effects of Conceptual Titles on the Aesthetic Appreciation of Artistic Photographs	0
Exploring Black American Flourishing Through the Arts and Humanities: A Scoping Review	0
Exploring Smartwatch Aesthetic Preferences Through the Unified Model of Aesthetics	0
Symmetry and Meaningfulness in the Spotlight of Expertness	0
“Awful Skinny Boys” – Male Musical Theatre Performers’ Experiences of Body Image: A Reflexive Thematic Analysis	0
Understanding Musical Beauty	0
Clustering the Raagas of Sankari Sangeet—A Computational Approach	0
Examining Artificial Intelligence Anxiety in the Context of Anthropocentrism and the Art Turing Test	0
The “Past” is Sweet: An Investigation into the Aesthetic and Affective Experience of Paintings	0
Is There a Timeless Truth for Good Arrangement of Paintings in Art Galleries and Museums? An Experimental Investigation of the Barnes Collection	0
How Do We Understand Artworks? Exploring the Role of Artwork Inherent Features in Art Processing	0
Some Effects of Sex and Culture on Creativity, No Effect of Incubation	0
Cultural Engagement and Subjective Well-Being in the Cluj Metropolitan Area: An Exploration in Cultural Commoning and Collaborative Development	0
Art and Cooking Therapies on Mental Health and Well-Being: A Narrative Review	0
Interdisciplinary Art Learning Through Artistic Digital Game-Based Learning (DGBL): Evaluating Learning Outcomes and Processes Among Science and Engineering Students	0
Generative Models for the Psychology of Art and Aesthetics	0
A Cross-Cultural Comparison of Aesthetic Preferences for Neatly Organized Compositions: Native Chinese- Versus Native Dutch-Speaking Samples	0