Psychology of Aesthetics Creativity and the Arts

Article	Citations
What’s in a name? Book title salience and the psychology of fiction.	43
Editors' introduction August 2022.	39
Supplemental Material for The Aesthetic Quality Model: Complexity and Randomness as Foundations of Visual Beauty by Signaling Quality	36
Supplemental Material for Who Likes the Grotesque? Mapping Individual Differences in Liking of Grotesque Artworks	36
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
Mental imagery in aesthetic appreciation and the understanding of the self and others.	33
Engaged and confused: Aesthetic appreciation of live and screened contemporary dance.	30
Anterior insula is an integrative hub in aesthetic judgment.	30
A computational approach to studying aesthetic judgments of ambiguous artworks.	29
On the overlap between aesthetic disposition, cultural eclecticism, and openness: An interdisciplinary study.	27
Parent–child creative activities are associated with children’s positive affect and relationships quality.	26
Pythagoras’ quest: A mathematical model and scale for aesthetic judgments.	26
Supplemental Material for A New Test for Assessing Creative Flexibility of Perceptual Interpretation: The Figural Interpretation Quest	25
Supplemental Material for Gender Differences in Creative Potential: A Meta-Analysis of Mean Differences and Variability	25
Supplemental Material for A Computational Approach to Studying Aesthetic Judgments of Ambiguous Artworks	24
Supplemental Material for A Brush With Scandal: How Artist Morality Shapes Aesthetic Preferences	23
Focus of attention affects togetherness experiences and body interactivity in piano duos.	22
How do examples impact divergent thinking? The interplay between associative and executive processes.	22
Professional status matters: Differences in flow proneness between professional and amateur contemporary musicians.	22
Supplemental Material for Diminishing Creative Returns: Predicting Optimal Creative Performance via Individual Differences in Executive Functioning	21
Supplemental Material for Type of Art Expertise Matters: Practical Experts Show a Greater Curvature Preference for Three-Dimensional Shapes Than Theoretical Experts	20
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	20
The effect of imagery on the comprehension and aesthetic appreciation of Chinese ancient poetry.	20
Supplemental Material for Effect of a Creative Dance-Based Physical Education Intervention on Primary School Children’s Creativity and Self-Regulation: A Pilot Study	20

Supplemental Material for A View Worth Talking About: The Influence of Social Interaction on Aesthetic Experience and Well-Being Outcomes in the Gallery	20
Exploring barriers to and drivers of participatory arts engagement in early adolescence.	19
The effect of self-expansion on creativity: Examining the role of novelty experiences.	18
Touch the color change: Representation of color change using tactile grating patterns.	18
Supplemental Material for Feeling Socially (Dis)Engaging Emotions With Favorite Music: The Role of Self-Construal Across Cultures	18
Bias against artificial intelligence in visual art: A meta-analysis.	18
The influence of culture on the viewing of Western and East Asian paintings.	18
An improved taxonomy of creativity measures based on salient task attributes.	17
Supplemental Material for Toward Equitable Creativity Self-Assessment: Measurement Invariance and Mean Differences Across Ethnicity in the Kaufman Domains of Creativity Scale	17
Color’s perceptual diversity and categorical harmony improve aesthetic experience.	17
Supplemental Material for “Memorable Speech”: Formal and Affective Determinants of Memory for Poetry	17
Supplemental Material for Original Photographic Art Induces Self-Transcendent Emotions	17
Measuring storyworld possible selves in depression stories: Linguistic features, personal relevance, and the narrative experience.	16
Eye color is more important than skin color for clothing color aesthetics.	16
Supplemental Material for A Time and a Place for Art Perception	16
A brush with scandal: How artist morality shapes aesthetic preferences.	16
Supplemental Material for Photographs That Repulse or Entice: Sense-Making and Emotional Experiencing of Artistic Photographs	16
Assessing the robustness of automated scoring of divergent thinking tasks with adversarial examples.	15
Staged and gendered pathways from parenting behaviors to Chinese students’ creative thinking: The roles of autonomous motivation and creative self-efficacy.	15
Review of The Psychology of Creative Performance and Expertise.	14
Can young children control their creativity? Examining the role of executive function in modifying children’s creative processes.	14
Does flower preference differ across cultures? A study of Czech and Kenyan populations.	14
Supplemental Material for Effectiveness of Drama-Based Therapies on Mental Health Outcomes: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Controlled Studies	14
Supplemental Material for Effect of Hedonic Contrasts on Movie Appreciation	14
Supplemental Material for A Systematic Approach to Study Preferences for Complexity at Different Levels of Order	14
Object-based practice effects recover the graphic object concept in Alzheimer’s dementia.	14
Editor’s introduction.	14
Cathedrals of sound: Predictors of the sublime and the beautiful in music, images, and music with images.	13
Creative achievement and individual differences: Associations across and within the domains of creativity.	13
The Aesthetic Responsiveness Assessment (AReA) in Farsi language: A scale validation and cultural adaptation study.	13
The role of expertise in visual exploration and aesthetic judgment of residential building façades: An eye-tracking study.	13
Implicit aesthetic processing and emotional priming: A functional magnetic resonance imaging study on artistic and nonartistic stimuli.	13
Makeup works by modifying factors of facial beauty.	13
The relation between the aesthetic perception of objects and the focus in visual attention across different stages of ego development.	13
Supplemental Material for Filling in the Blanks of Ganzfeld Art	13
Supplemental Material for Imaginings From an Unfamiliar World: Narrative Engagement With a New Musical System	13
An itsy bitsy audience: Live performance facilitates infants’ attention and heart rate synchronization.	13
Adaptation of the Runco Ideational Behavior Scale into Turkish: A confirmatory factor analysis and Rasch study.	13
Do you chill when I chill? A cross-cultural study of strong emotional responses to music.	12
Were they appealing to the sun? On why cones and tetrahedra were so popular at the dawn of civilization.	12
The complementary roles of intuition and logic in creative design ideation.	12
Editors’ Introduction to Part 1 of the Special Issue on Racial and Cultural Issues.	12
A systematic quantitative review of divergent thinking assessments.	12
Artists have superior local and global processing abilities but show a preference for initially drawing globally.	12
Editors’ introduction April 2024.	12
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
How filmmakers guide the eye: The effect of average shot length on intersubject attentional synchrony.	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
A Model of Creative Aging (MOCA): Unlocking the potential of constraints for creativity in older adults.	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
Big-C creativity in artists and scientists is associated with more random global but less random local fMRI functional connectivity.	11
Supplemental Material for How Do Examples Impact Divergent Thinking? The Interplay Between Associative and Executive Processes	11
Supplemental Material for Books or Films, Ephemeral or Habitual? Untangling the Path From Narrative Fiction to Social Cognition	11
Supplemental Material for Visuospatial Components of Drawing Skill Correlate With Mental Transformation Performance	11
Editors’ introduction.	10
Subjective emotional instances surpass formal perceptual features in shaping the aesthetic appeal of artworks.	10
Character strengths afforded by arts engagement during adolescence: The development and validation of the Creative Artistic Activities Strengths Affordances Scale.	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 mobile phone use and creative ideation among college students: The roles of critical thinking and creative self-efficacy.	10
Supplemental Material for A Meta-Analysis of the Effects of Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation on Creative Thinking	10
Automated scoring of figural creativity using a convolutional neural network.	10
The relationship between divergent thinking, emotional regulation in the arts, and cognitive reappraisal.	10
Supplemental Material for The Appeal of Insight: Why Riddles and Whodunits Captivate Us	9
Art has no gender, only gender bias.	9
Feeling socially (dis)engaging emotions with favorite music: The role of self-construal across cultures.	9
Aesthetic judgments of music: Reliability, consistency, criteria, self-insight, and expertise.	9
The brain entropy basis of schizotypal personality and its relation to fantasy proneness.	9
Acknowledgment of Ad Hoc Reviewers	9
Automated feedback and creativity: On the role of metacognitive monitoring in divergent thinking.	9
Beyond the single picture: Aesthetic experiences with photography series in an exhibition context.	9
Supplemental Material for The Temporal Instability of Aesthetic Preferences	9
Supplemental Material for Aesthetic Preferences Among Spatial Patterns: Large-Scale Experiment, Comprehensive Exploration, and a Three-Component Regularity-Based Model	9
D-I-WHAT? Identifying creative domains in do-it-yourself videos on YouTube.	9
Overexcitabilities and bidirectional development in playfulness and creative potential among kindergarten children.	9
Supplemental Material for Creative Mindset Induction Affects Beliefs but Not Creative Task Performance	8
Supplemental Material for Emotion, Embodiment, and Aesthetic Appraisal: The Impact of Interoceptive Abilities and Art Type	8
Supplemental Material for How Much Does Performance Quality Matter in Musical Emotion Induction? Main Effects and Interaction Effects With Listener Features	8
The time-course of fixations in representational paintings: A cross-cultural study.	8
Processing fluency, processing style, and aesthetic response to artistic photographs.	8
Supplemental Material for Visual Exploration Mediates the Influence of Personal Traits on Responses to Artworks in an Art Gallery Setting	8
Methods used to study audience experience of screen-based media: A scoping review.	8
Supplemental Material for From Momentary to Long-Term Affect: How Affective Processes Shape Poetic Creativity	8
Trust the process: The effects of iteration in children’s creative processes on their creative products.	8
Neuroarchitecture of aesthetic experience: Investigating brain oscillations for interior spaces with curved boundaries in virtual reality.	8
Universality and specificity of the kindchenschema: A cross-cultural study on cute rectangles.	8
Increasing music preference through guided self-framing: A comparison of historical and imaginative approaches.	8
Moving me, moving you: Emotional expressivity, empathy, and prior experience shape whole-body movement preferences.	8
Both science and art elicit emotional well-being: An examination of creativity and mood.	8
Review of Mary Climbs In: The Journeys of Bruce Springsteen’s Women Fans.	7
Supplemental Material for Automated Feedback and Creativity: On the Role of Metacognitive Monitoring in Divergent Thinking	7
Reliability and validity of a novel Ambulatory Battery of Creativity (ABC).	7
Figuring out what they feel: Exposure to eudaimonic narrative fiction is related to mentalizing ability.	7
Editors’ introduction, February 2023.	7
Don't throw the “bad” ideas away! Multidimensional top scoring increases reliability of divergent thinking tasks.	7
Patterns of psychological vulnerabilities and resources in artists and nonartists.	7
Evaluation of aesthetic pleasure in schizophrenia spectrum disorders, using the eye-tracking methodology.	7
Supplemental Material for Is Humor Temperament Associated With Being Creative, Original, and Funny? A Tale of Three Studies	7
Narrative aesthetic absorption in audiobooks is predicted by blink rate and acoustic features.	7
Visual perception of the built environment in virtual reality: A systematic characterization of human aesthetic experience in spaces with curved boundaries.	7
Review of Why theatre education matters: Understanding its cognitive, social, and emotional benefits.	7
Supplemental Material for D-I-WHAT? Identifying Creative Domains in Do-It-Yourself Videos on YouTube	7
Supplemental Material for Paths to Transformation Across Contemporary Reading Practices: The Role of Motivations and Genre Preferences	7
Free but controlled mind creates through reference: The role of shifting and idea referencing in individuals with different working memory and mind wandering profiles.	7
Understanding metaphor in art: Distinguishing literal giants from metaphorical challenges.	7
Imaginings from an unfamiliar world: Narrative engagement with a new musical system.	7
Supplemental Material for Beyond the Here and Now: Leveraging Distal Mental Simulation for Creative Breakthroughs	7
Content warnings reduce aesthetic appreciation of visual art.	7
Multilingual semantic distance: Automatic verbal creativity assessment in many languages.	6
Lofty aims, limited actors, fewer artifacts: A sociocultural analysis of Confucian conceptions of creativity and innovation.	6
How stable is the creative self-concept? A latent state-trait analysis.	6
The temporal instability of aesthetic preferences.	6
Acting gender: Actors’ experiences of gender role conformity and hopes for their characters.	6
Supplemental Material for Movement-Based Music in the Classroom: Investigating the Effects of Music Programs Incorporating Body Movement in Primary School Children	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
Visual attention bias for self-made artworks.	6
Some like it sharp: Song familiarity influences musical preference for absolute tuning.	6
Together in the dark?: Investigating the understanding and feeling of intended emotions between viewers and professional artists at the Venice Biennale.	6
What a great feeling! The “experiencing art at school” program to engage children in visual arts and improve their emotional states.	6
Vigilance and social chills with music: Evidence for two types of musical chills.	6
Supplemental Material for Challenging Magicians’ Intuitive Insights: The Role of Audience Participation in Experiencing a Magic Trick	6
When the painting meets its musical inspiration: The impact of multimodal art experience on aesthetic enjoyment and subjective well-being in the museum.	6
The relationship between lifetime book reading and empathy in adolescents: Examining transportability as a moderator.	6
Beauty lies in the eye of the mindful: Does mindfulness intensify aesthetic experience by freeing working memory resources?	5
Conceptualizing, operationalizing, and assessing creativity in early childhood education and care settings: A scoping review.	5
Subjective understanding boosts contemporary art appreciation among primary school students.	5
Association between music use and depression among college students: The moderating roles of regulatory emotional self-efficacy and gender.	5
Fifty years later and still working: Rediscovering Paulus et al’s (1970) automated scoring of divergent thinking tests.	5

Supplemental Material for Cultural Diversity in Oculometric Parameters When Viewing Art and Non-Art	5
Identifying the functional relationships between creativity and its constituents: A task for response surface analysis?	5
Art therapy with women survivors of intimate partner violence: A scoping review.	5
More light about each other: Theater education as a context for developing social awareness and relationship skills.	5
Mood and creativity in children: Differential impacts on convergent and divergent thinking.	5
Supplemental Material for Laughing Across the Bridge: The Role of Associative Abilities in Humor	5
The aesthetic experience of live concerts: Self-reports and psychophysiology.	5
Back where I belong: Rereading as a risk-free pathway to social connection.	5
Supplemental Material for The Effect of Implicit Theories of Human Beauty and Perceived Pressure on Cosmetic Consumption	5
Supplemental Material for The Usual Miracles: How Narrative Style Affects the Processing of Counterintuitive Concepts	5
Altering balance perception through the agent’s expression: Happy face suppresses the inward bias.	5
Artificial intelligence and art: Identifying the aesthetic judgment factors that distinguish human- and machine-generated artwork.	5
Visual arts activities relate to interest and cortisol for children in Head Start preschool.	5
Neural dissociation between computational and subjective image complexity.	5
Modality influences perceived film suspense but not time perception.	5
Images influencing images: How pictorial context affects the emotional interpretation of art photographs.	5
Audience responses to diverse superheroes: The roles of gender and race in forging connections with media characters in superhero franchise films.	5
Dual pathways in creative writing processes.	5
Supplemental Material for Sense-Sational Acting: Intuition in Actors Is Supported by Interoceptive, Exteroceptive, and Immersive Abilities	5
Preference for paintings is also affected by curvature.	5
Does divergent thinking relate to expertise? Introducing a novel test of creative ideation in music.	5
A systematic approach to study preferences for complexity at different levels of order.	4
The spectrum of distributed creativity: Tango dancing and its generative modalities.	4
Supplemental Material for The Aesthetic Responsiveness Assessment (AReA) in Farsi Language: A Scale Validation and Cultural Adaptation Study	4
An exploratory study of historical representations of love in an art gallery exhibition.	4
Supplemental Material for The Cognitive Brain Processes for Representing Form/Design Innovation and Function Innovation Product Designs	4
Melody in poems and songs: Fundamental statistical properties predict aesthetic evaluation.	4
Untrustworthy beauty: Beautification strategies cause female applicators to be perceived untrustworthy.	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 Subjective Emotional Instances Surpass Formal Perceptual Features in Shaping the Aesthetic Appeal of Artworks	4
Pitch height and mode have asymmetrical effects on the perception of mixed emotions in major and minor seventh chords.	4
Supplemental Material for Judging Beauty and Liking: The Effects of Personal Intuitions and Task Instructions	4
Supplemental Material for Art Has No Gender, Only Gender Bias	4
Gravitating toward the arts during the COVID-19 pandemic.	4
The influence of anger and anxiety on idea generation: Taking a closer look at integral and incidental emotion effects.	4
Beyond the here and now: Leveraging distal mental simulation for creative breakthroughs.	4
Supplemental Material for More Light About Each Other: Theater Education as a Context for Developing Social Awareness and Relationship Skills	4
What counts as aesthetics in science? A bibliometric analysis and visualization of the scientific literature from 1970 to 2018.	4
Poetry-elicited emotions: Reading experience and psychological mechanisms.	4
Supplemental Material for Exploring Arts Engagement Among Black Americans: Insights on Flourishing and Barriers to Participation From a Mixed-Methods Survey	4
The Goldsmiths Dance Sophistication Index (Gold-DSI): A psychometric tool to assess individual differences in dance experience.	4
Cognitive reappraisal and creative self-concept among higher education students: A latent class analysis.	4
Participation in intensive orchestral music training does not cause gains in executive functioning, self-perception, or attitudes toward school in young children.	3
Beyond togetherness: Interactional dissensus fosters creativity and tension in freely improvised musical duos.	3
Supplemental Material for Melody in Poems and Songs: Fundamental Statistical Properties Predict Aesthetic Evaluation	3
Eyelight enhances perceived emotional responses to cinema.	3
Supplemental Material for Evaluation of Poetic Creativity: Predictors and the Role of Expertise—A Multilevel Approach	3
Self- and other-reported creativity and its association with personality in a cappella singers.	3
From story to heartbeats: Physiological synchrony in theater audiences.	3
Supplemental Material for The Role of Imagery and Emotion in the Aesthetic Appeal of Music, Poetry, and Paintings	3
Automated scoring of creative problem solving with large language models: A comparison of originality and quality ratings.	3
Supplemental Material for Bridging the Gap Through Common Features: The Semantic Structure of Creative Metaphors	3
Creative thinking and executive functions: Associations and training effects in adolescents.	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
Applying German word vectors to assess flexibility performance in the associative fluency task.	3
Edit blindness is not related to immersion and presence in Hollywood movies.	3
Supplemental Material for Exploration of Discriminant Validity in Divergent Thinking Tasks: A Meta-Analysis	3
Supplemental Material for Art Therapy With Women Survivors of Intimate Partner Violence: A Scoping Review	3
Green slime and orange blimps: A linguistic analysis of Nickelodeon’s kids’ choice awards.	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
It is heart to be creative: Insights from ambulatory monitoring.	3
Relational processing in faces in paintings varying along a realism continuum.	3
Inspired by art: Higher aesthetic appeal elicits increased felt inspiration in a creative writing task.	3
Creative idea forecasting: The effect of task exposure on idea evaluation.	3
The effect of visual recognition on listener choices when searching for music in playlists.	3
Personality traits as predictors of work creativity: A comparison between self- and other-reports.	3
The relationship between demographics, behavioral and experiential engagement factors, and the use of artistic creative activities to regulate emotions.	3
Dancing through the uncanny valley: On the likeability of model-generated dance movements.	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 Does Shared Experience Change the Aesthetic Appreciation of Art? Evidence From an Exploratory Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging Study	3
Worth the effort? Comparing different youtube vlog production styles in terms of viewers’ identification, parasocial response, immersion, and enjoyment.	3
Does the typeface on album cover influence expectations and perception of music?	3
How verbal cues help to see and understand art.	3
Effectiveness of drama-based therapies on mental health outcomes: A systematic review and meta-analysis of controlled studies.	3
Supplemental Material for Thinking Behind the Doing of Dance: A Review of Cognitive Dance Studies	3
An empirical assessment of cinematic continuity.	3
Music self-efficacy, self-esteem, and help-seeking orientation among amateur musicians who use online music tutorials.	3
Individual differences in aesthetic engagement and proneness to aesthetic chill: Associations with stress-related growth orientation.	3
Where was I? Distractions during information gathering.	2
False memory at the movies: Experimentally inducing false visual memories through sound design in two cuts of a creative narrative fiction film.	2
Increasing creativity through the development of thinking skills: Combinatorial thinking of viola players.	2
Visual exploration mediates the influence of personal traits on responses to artworks in an art gallery setting.	2
Babies’ engagement in music theater performances: A microanalytical study of the aesthetic experiences in early childhood.	2
Music, coping with stress, and emotion regulation during the COVID-19 pandemic.	2
Investigating the relationship between need satisfaction and creative performance: Intrinsically motivated students value creativity.	2
Participatory design curriculum promotes engineering design, critical thinking, and creativity for students from kindergarten to 12th grade.	2
Supplemental Material for Impact of Veteran Journeys Opera on Audience Member Attitudes Related to Veterans With Posttraumatic Stress or Unstable Housing	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 Conceptualizing, Operationalizing, and Assessing Creativity in Early Childhood Education and Care Settings: A Scoping Review	2
Supplemental Material for Thematic Profile Analysis Reveals the Explanatory Power of Themes in Creative Ideas	2
Altar-ing aesthetic emotions: Exploring responses to ecologically valid beauty stimuli and their relationship to trait engagement with beauty.	2
Does reading a single short story of literary fiction improve social-cognitive skills? Testing the priming hypothesis.	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
Behavioral indices of effort discounting are related to perseverance on a creativity task and to bipolar disorder.	2