Psychology of Aesthetics Creativity and the Arts

Article	Citations
What’s in a name? Book title salience and the psychology of fiction.	95
Editors' introduction August 2022.	73
On the overlap between aesthetic disposition, cultural eclecticism, and openness: An interdisciplinary study.	45
Supplemental Material for The Aesthetic Quality Model: Complexity and Randomness as Foundations of Visual Beauty by Signaling Quality	40
Supplemental Material for Who Likes the Grotesque? Mapping Individual Differences in Liking of Grotesque Artworks	40
Supplemental Material for Increasing Music Preference Through Guided Self-Framing: A Comparison of Historical and Imaginative Approaches	36
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	35
Anterior insula is an integrative hub in aesthetic judgment.	34
A computational approach to studying aesthetic judgments of ambiguous artworks.	34
Parent–child creative activities are associated with children’s positive affect and relationships quality.	33
Engaged and confused: Aesthetic appreciation of live and screened contemporary dance.	31
Mental imagery in aesthetic appreciation and the understanding of the self and others.	28
Supplemental Material for A New Test for Assessing Creative Flexibility of Perceptual Interpretation: The Figural Interpretation Quest	27
Supplemental Material for A Brush With Scandal: How Artist Morality Shapes Aesthetic Preferences	27
Supplemental Material for Gender Differences in Creative Potential: A Meta-Analysis of Mean Differences and Variability	27
Supplemental Material for A Computational Approach to Studying Aesthetic Judgments of Ambiguous Artworks	27
Supplemental Material for Diminishing Creative Returns: Predicting Optimal Creative Performance via Individual Differences in Executive Functioning	25
Professional status matters: Differences in flow proneness between professional and amateur contemporary musicians.	24
The effect of imagery on the comprehension and aesthetic appreciation of Chinese ancient poetry.	24
Supplemental Material for A View Worth Talking About: The Influence of Social Interaction on Aesthetic Experience and Well-Being Outcomes in the Gallery	23
Supplemental Material for Effect of a Creative Dance-Based Physical Education Intervention on Primary School Children’s Creativity and Self-Regulation: A Pilot Study	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	23
Supplemental Material for Type of Art Expertise Matters: Practical Experts Show a Greater Curvature Preference for Three-Dimensional Shapes Than Theoretical Experts	23
Focus of attention affects togetherness experiences and body interactivity in piano duos.	22
Color’s perceptual diversity and categorical harmony improve aesthetic experience.	22

Touch the color change: Representation of color change using tactile grating patterns.	19
An improved taxonomy of creativity measures based on salient task attributes.	19
The influence of culture on the viewing of Western and East Asian paintings.	19
Exploring barriers to and drivers of participatory arts engagement in early adolescence.	19
How do examples impact divergent thinking? The interplay between associative and executive processes.	19
Measuring storyworld possible selves in depression stories: Linguistic features, personal relevance, and the narrative experience.	18
Supplemental Material for “Memorable Speech”: Formal and Affective Determinants of Memory for Poetry	18
Supplemental Material for Toward Equitable Creativity Self-Assessment: Measurement Invariance and Mean Differences Across Ethnicity in the Kaufman Domains of Creativity Scale	18
Supplemental Material for Feeling Socially (Dis)Engaging Emotions With Favorite Music: The Role of Self-Construal Across Cultures	18
The effect of self-expansion on creativity: Examining the role of novelty experiences.	18
Staged and gendered pathways from parenting behaviors to Chinese students’ creative thinking: The roles of autonomous motivation and creative self-efficacy.	17
A brush with scandal: How artist morality shapes aesthetic preferences.	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
Supplemental Material for A Time and a Place for Art Perception	16
Supplemental Material for Photographs That Repulse or Entice: Sense-Making and Emotional Experiencing of Artistic Photographs	16
Supplemental Material for A Systematic Approach to Study Preferences for Complexity at Different Levels of Order	16
Assessing the robustness of automated scoring of divergent thinking tasks with adversarial examples.	16
Editor’s introduction.	16
Eye color is more important than skin color for clothing color aesthetics.	16
Supplemental Material for Effect of Hedonic Contrasts on Movie Appreciation	15
The relation between the aesthetic perception of objects and the focus in visual attention across different stages of ego development.	15
Makeup works by modifying factors of facial beauty.	15
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
Can young children control their creativity? Examining the role of executive function in modifying children’s creative processes.	14
Supplemental Material for Imaginings From an Unfamiliar World: Narrative Engagement With a New Musical System	14
The Aesthetic Responsiveness Assessment (AReA) in Farsi language: A scale validation and cultural adaptation study.	14
Review of The Psychology of Creative Performance and Expertise.	14
Implicit aesthetic processing and emotional priming: A functional magnetic resonance imaging study on artistic and nonartistic stimuli.	13
A systematic quantitative review of divergent thinking assessments.	13
Cathedrals of sound: Predictors of the sublime and the beautiful in music, images, and music with images.	13
An itsy bitsy audience: Live performance facilitates infants’ attention and heart rate synchronization.	13
The role of expertise in visual exploration and aesthetic judgment of residential building façades: An eye-tracking study.	13
Do you chill when I chill? A cross-cultural study of strong emotional responses to music.	13
Creative achievement and individual differences: Associations across and within the domains of creativity.	13
Supplemental Material for Staged and Gendered Pathways From Parenting Behaviors to Chinese Students’ Creative Thinking: The Roles of Autonomous Motivation and Creative Self-Efficacy	12
Editors’ introduction April 2024.	12
Supplemental Material for How Do Examples Impact Divergent Thinking? The Interplay Between Associative and Executive Processes	12
Artists have superior local and global processing abilities but show a preference for initially drawing globally.	12
Editors’ Introduction to Part 1 of the Special Issue on Racial and Cultural Issues.	12
The relationship between mobile phone use and creative ideation among college students: The roles of critical thinking and creative self-efficacy.	12
Were they appealing to the sun? On why cones and tetrahedra were so popular at the dawn of civilization.	12
Adaptation of the Runco Ideational Behavior Scale into Turkish: A confirmatory factor analysis and Rasch study.	12
Big-C creativity in artists and scientists is associated with more random global but less random local fMRI functional connectivity.	11
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	11
The art of feeling different: Exploring the diversity of emotions experienced during an art museum visit.	11
How filmmakers guide the eye: The effect of average shot length on intersubject attentional synchrony.	11
Automated scoring of figural creativity using a convolutional neural network.	11
A Model of Creative Aging (MOCA): Unlocking the potential of constraints for creativity in older adults.	11

Supplemental Material for Spirit Behind Appearance: Facial Motion Increases Facial Attractiveness Through Perceived Vitality	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 Books or Films, Ephemeral or Habitual? Untangling the Path From Narrative Fiction to Social Cognition	11
Editors’ introduction.	10
Supplemental Material for A Meta-Analysis of the Effects of Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation on Creative Thinking	10
Supplemental Material for The Appeal of Insight: Why Riddles and Whodunits Captivate Us	10
“Like static noise in a beautiful landscape”: A mixed-methods approach to rationales and features of disliked voices in popular music.	10
The relationship between divergent thinking, emotional regulation in the arts, and cognitive reappraisal.	10
The brain entropy basis of schizotypal personality and its relation to fantasy proneness.	10
Supplemental Material for Visuospatial Components of Drawing Skill Correlate With Mental Transformation Performance	10
Subjective emotional instances surpass formal perceptual features in shaping the aesthetic appeal of artworks.	10
Supplemental Material for The Temporal Instability of Aesthetic Preferences	10
Character strengths afforded by arts engagement during adolescence: The development and validation of the Creative Artistic Activities Strengths Affordances Scale.	10
Aesthetic judgments of music: Reliability, consistency, criteria, self-insight, and expertise.	9
Beyond the single picture: Aesthetic experiences with photography series in an exhibition context.	9
Supplemental Material for Visual Exploration Mediates the Influence of Personal Traits on Responses to Artworks in an Art Gallery Setting	9
Narrative aesthetic absorption in audiobooks is predicted by blink rate and acoustic features.	9
Automated feedback and creativity: On the role of metacognitive monitoring in divergent thinking.	9
Feeling socially (dis)engaging emotions with favorite music: The role of self-construal across cultures.	9
Universality and specificity of the kindchenschema: A cross-cultural study on cute rectangles.	9
Acknowledgment of Ad Hoc Reviewers	9
Supplemental Material for Aesthetic Preferences Among Spatial Patterns: Large-Scale Experiment, Comprehensive Exploration, and a Three-Component Regularity-Based Model	9
Art has no gender, only gender bias.	9
D-I-WHAT? Identifying creative domains in do-it-yourself videos on YouTube.	9
Understanding metaphor in art: Distinguishing literal giants from metaphorical challenges.	9
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
Art as communication: Fulfilling Gricean communication principles predicts aesthetic liking.	8
Visual perception of the built environment in virtual reality: A systematic characterization of human aesthetic experience in spaces with curved boundaries.	8
Differential effects of film genre on viewers’ absorption, identification, and enjoyment.	8
Methods used to study audience experience of screen-based media: A scoping review.	8
Figuring out what they feel: Exposure to eudaimonic narrative fiction is related to mentalizing ability.	8
Increasing music preference through guided self-framing: A comparison of historical and imaginative approaches.	8
Supplemental Material for Emotion, Embodiment, and Aesthetic Appraisal: The Impact of Interoceptive Abilities and Art Type	8
Supplemental Material for From Momentary to Long-Term Affect: How Affective Processes Shape Poetic Creativity	8
Supplemental Material for How Much Does Performance Quality Matter in Musical Emotion Induction? Main Effects and Interaction Effects With Listener Features	8
Both science and art elicit emotional well-being: An examination of creativity and mood.	7
Processing fluency, processing style, and aesthetic response to artistic photographs.	7
What a great feeling! The “experiencing art at school” program to engage children in visual arts and improve their emotional states.	7
Editors’ introduction, February 2023.	7
Neuroarchitecture of aesthetic experience: Investigating brain oscillations for interior spaces with curved boundaries in virtual reality.	7
Reliability and validity of a novel Ambulatory Battery of Creativity (ABC).	7
Moving me, moving you: Emotional expressivity, empathy, and prior experience shape whole-body movement preferences.	7
Supplemental Material for Is Humor Temperament Associated With Being Creative, Original, and Funny? A Tale of Three Studies	7
The Aesthetic Responsiveness Assessment (AReA): A screening tool to assess individual differences in responsiveness to art in English and German.	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
Supplemental Material for Beyond the Here and Now: Leveraging Distal Mental Simulation for Creative Breakthroughs	7
Review of Why theatre education matters: Understanding its cognitive, social, and emotional benefits.	7
Patterns of psychological vulnerabilities and resources in artists and nonartists.	6
Lofty aims, limited actors, fewer artifacts: A sociocultural analysis of Confucian conceptions of creativity and innovation.	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
How stable is the creative self-concept? A latent state-trait analysis.	6
Multilingual semantic distance: Automatic verbal creativity assessment in many languages.	6
Images influencing images: How pictorial context affects the emotional interpretation of art photographs.	6
Acting gender: Actors’ experiences of gender role conformity and hopes for their characters.	6
Less is more: The effect of visiting duration on the perceived restorativeness of museums.	6
Development and initial validation of the State Spontaneity Scale.	6
Supplemental Material for D-I-WHAT? Identifying Creative Domains in Do-It-Yourself Videos on YouTube	6
Don't throw the “bad” ideas away! Multidimensional top scoring increases reliability of divergent thinking tasks.	6
Back where I belong: Rereading as a risk-free pathway to social connection.	6
Supplemental Material for Movement-Based Music in the Classroom: Investigating the Effects of Music Programs Incorporating Body Movement in Primary School Children	6
Supplemental Material for Paths to Transformation Across Contemporary Reading Practices: The Role of Motivations and Genre Preferences	6
Review of Mary Climbs In: The Journeys of Bruce Springsteen’s Women Fans.	6
Supplemental Material for Automated Feedback and Creativity: On the Role of Metacognitive Monitoring in Divergent Thinking	6
Evaluation of aesthetic pleasure in schizophrenia spectrum disorders, using the eye-tracking methodology.	6
Vigilance and social chills with music: Evidence for two types of musical chills.	6
Visual attention bias for self-made artworks.	6
Supplemental Material for Challenging Magicians’ Intuitive Insights: The Role of Audience Participation in Experiencing a Magic Trick	6
Audience responses to diverse superheroes: The roles of gender and race in forging connections with media characters in superhero franchise films.	5
The relationship between lifetime book reading and empathy in adolescents: Examining transportability as a moderator.	5
Together in the dark?: Investigating the understanding and feeling of intended emotions between viewers and professional artists at the Venice Biennale.	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 The Usual Miracles: How Narrative Style Affects the Processing of Counterintuitive Concepts	5
Mind wandering outside the box—About the role of off-task thoughts and their assessment during creative incubation.	5
Association between music use and depression among college students: The moderating roles of regulatory emotional self-efficacy and gender.	5
The aesthetic experience of live concerts: Self-reports and psychophysiology.	5
More light about each other: Theater education as a context for developing social awareness and relationship skills.	5
Conceptualizing, operationalizing, and assessing creativity in early childhood education and care settings: A scoping review.	5

Dual pathways in creative writing processes.	5
The temporal instability of aesthetic preferences.	5
Fifty years later and still working: Rediscovering Paulus et al’s (1970) automated scoring of divergent thinking tests.	5
Modality influences perceived film suspense but not time perception.	5
Supplemental Material for The Effect of Implicit Theories of Human Beauty and Perceived Pressure on Cosmetic Consumption	5
Supplemental Material for Development and Validation of the Aesthetic Processing Preference Scale (APPS)	4
Supplemental Material for More Light About Each Other: Theater Education as a Context for Developing Social Awareness and Relationship Skills	4
Does divergent thinking relate to expertise? Introducing a novel test of creative ideation in music.	4
Untrustworthy beauty: Beautification strategies cause female applicators to be perceived untrustworthy.	4
Supplemental Material for Subjective Emotional Instances Surpass Formal Perceptual Features in Shaping the Aesthetic Appeal of Artworks	4
From story to heartbeats: Physiological synchrony in theater audiences.	4
Supplemental Material for The Cognitive Brain Processes for Representing Form/Design Innovation and Function Innovation Product Designs	4
The Goldsmiths Dance Sophistication Index (Gold-DSI): A psychometric tool to assess individual differences in dance experience.	4
Supplemental Material for The Aesthetic Responsiveness Assessment (AReA) in Farsi Language: A Scale Validation and Cultural Adaptation Study	4
Visual arts activities relate to interest and cortisol for children in Head Start preschool.	4
Supplemental Material for Sense-Sational Acting: Intuition in Actors Is Supported by Interoceptive, Exteroceptive, and Immersive Abilities	4
Beyond the here and now: Leveraging distal mental simulation for creative breakthroughs.	4
Identifying the functional relationships between creativity and its constituents: A task for response surface analysis?	4
An exploratory study of historical representations of love in an art gallery exhibition.	4
Poetry-elicited emotions: Reading experience and psychological mechanisms.	4
What counts as aesthetics in science? A bibliometric analysis and visualization of the scientific literature from 1970 to 2018.	4
The spectrum of distributed creativity: Tango dancing and its generative modalities.	4
Pitch height and mode have asymmetrical effects on the perception of mixed emotions in major and minor seventh chords.	4
Preference for paintings is also affected by curvature.	4
Neural dissociation between computational and subjective image complexity.	4
Artificial intelligence and art: Identifying the aesthetic judgment factors that distinguish human- and machine-generated artwork.	4
Gravitating toward the arts during the COVID-19 pandemic.	4
Supplemental Material for Cultural Diversity in Oculometric Parameters When Viewing Art and Non-Art	4
The influence of anger and anxiety on idea generation: Taking a closer look at integral and incidental emotion effects.	4
Cognitive reappraisal and creative self-concept among higher education students: A latent class analysis.	4
Supplemental Material for A Randomized Study of El Sistema-Inspired Youth Music Education Programming: Evidence Addressing Executive Function and Social–Emotional Learning	4
Supplemental Material for Judging Beauty and Liking: The Effects of Personal Intuitions and Task Instructions	4
Mood and creativity in children: Differential impacts on convergent and divergent thinking.	4
Altering balance perception through the agent’s expression: Happy face suppresses the inward bias.	4
Green slime and orange blimps: A linguistic analysis of Nickelodeon’s kids’ choice awards.	3
Intellectual risk taking: A moderating link between creative confidence and creative behavior?	3
Supplemental Material for Art Has No Gender, Only Gender Bias	3
Edit blindness is not related to immersion and presence in Hollywood movies.	3
Eyelight enhances perceived emotional responses to cinema.	3
Supplemental Material for Exploration of Discriminant Validity in Divergent Thinking Tasks: A Meta-Analysis	3
Automated scoring of creative problem solving with large language models: A comparison of originality and quality ratings.	3
The relationship between demographics, behavioral and experiential engagement factors, and the use of artistic creative activities to regulate emotions.	3
From pathogens to paintings: A preliminary investigation into the behavioral immune system’s influence on visual aesthetic appreciation and perception.	3
Supplemental Material for The Role of Imagery and Emotion in the Aesthetic Appeal of Music, Poetry, and Paintings	3
Worth the effort? Comparing different youtube vlog production styles in terms of viewers’ identification, parasocial response, immersion, and enjoyment.	3
Effectiveness of drama-based therapies on mental health outcomes: A systematic review and meta-analysis of controlled studies.	3
Melody in poems and songs: Fundamental statistical properties predict aesthetic evaluation.	3
Supplemental Material for Evaluation of Poetic Creativity: Predictors and the Role of Expertise—A Multilevel Approach	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
Applying German word vectors to assess flexibility performance in the associative fluency task.	3
Dancing through the uncanny valley: On the likeability of model-generated dance movements.	3
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.	3
Relational processing in faces in paintings varying along a realism continuum.	3
Measuring divergent thinking originality with human raters and text-mining models: A psychometric comparison of methods.	3
Does the typeface on album cover influence expectations and perception of music?	3
Self- and other-reported creativity and its association with personality in a cappella singers.	3
A systematic approach to study preferences for complexity at different levels of order.	3
Supplemental Material for Exploring Arts Engagement Among Black Americans: Insights on Flourishing and Barriers to Participation From a Mixed-Methods Survey	3
How verbal cues help to see and understand art.	3
Supplemental Material for Thinking Behind the Doing of Dance: A Review of Cognitive Dance Studies	3
Supplemental Material for Melody in Poems and Songs: Fundamental Statistical Properties Predict Aesthetic Evaluation	3
Music self-efficacy, self-esteem, and help-seeking orientation among amateur musicians who use online music tutorials.	3
Inspired by art: Higher aesthetic appeal elicits increased felt inspiration in a creative writing task.	3
It is heart to be creative: Insights from ambulatory monitoring.	3
Beyond togetherness: Interactional dissensus fosters creativity and tension in freely improvised musical duos.	3
Individual differences in aesthetic engagement and proneness to aesthetic chill: Associations with stress-related growth orientation.	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
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 The Visual Language of Pain: The Role of Rendering Style and Pain Type in Aesthetic and Empathetic Appraisals of Painful Images	2
Supplemental Material for Virtual Art Visits: Examining the Effects of Slow Looking on Well-Being in an Online Environment	2
Story writing and the “play of imagination”.	2
Free association ability distinguishes highly creative artists from scientists: Findings from the Big-C Project.	2
Creative thinking and executive functions: Associations and training effects in adolescents.	2
The effect of visual recognition on listener choices when searching for music in playlists.	2
“I may look fake but I’m real where it counts”: Positivity and authenticity in the songs of Dolly Parton.	2
One hundred and fifty years after Fechner: A view from the “middle of the storm”.	2
Does reading a single short story of literary fiction improve social-cognitive skills? Testing the priming hypothesis.	2
Supplemental Material for Conceptualizing, Operationalizing, and Assessing Creativity in Early Childhood Education and Care Settings: A Scoping Review	2
Correction to “The effect of visual recognition on listener choices when searching for music in playlists” by Steffens and Anglada-Tort (2023).	2
Individualizing and binding moral values as a function of evaluations of artwork depicting nudity.	2
Radically revolutionary or pretty flowers? The impact of curatorial narrative of artistic deviance on perceived artist influence.	2
Supplemental Material for A MAD Method to Assess Idea Novelty: Improving Validity of Automatic Scoring Using Maximum Associative Distance (MAD)	2
Creative idea forecasting: The effect of task exposure on idea evaluation.	2
From “a nothing” to something special: Art as a space of holding attunement in the creative experience of Holocaust survivor artists.	2
Supplemental Material for Does Shared Experience Change the Aesthetic Appreciation of Art? Evidence From an Exploratory Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging Study	2
Investigating the relationship between need satisfaction and creative performance: Intrinsically motivated students value creativity.	2
Behavioral indices of effort discounting are related to perseverance on a creativity task and to bipolar disorder.	2
Babies’ engagement in music theater performances: A microanalytical study of the aesthetic experiences in early childhood.	2
Increasing creativity through the development of thinking skills: Combinatorial thinking of viola players.	2
Altar-ing aesthetic emotions: Exploring responses to ecologically valid beauty stimuli and their relationship to trait engagement with beauty.	2
The appeal of insight: Why riddles and whodunits captivate us.	2
Relationships between surprise, liking, and error perception in musical listening.	2
Supplemental Material for Bridging the Gap Through Common Features: The Semantic Structure of Creative Metaphors	2