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	92
Supplemental Material for Increasing Music Preference Through Guided Self-Framing: A Comparison of Historical and Imaginative Approaches	70
What’s in a name? Book title salience and the psychology of fiction.	43
Editors' introduction August 2022.	41
On the overlap between aesthetic disposition, cultural eclecticism, and openness: An interdisciplinary study.	40
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
Supplemental Material for Who Likes the Grotesque? Mapping Individual Differences in Liking of Grotesque Artworks	35
Parent–child creative activities are associated with children’s positive affect and relationships quality.	34
Engaged and confused: Aesthetic appreciation of live and screened contemporary dance.	32
Mental imagery in aesthetic appreciation and the understanding of the self and others.	30
A computational approach to studying aesthetic judgments of ambiguous artworks.	29
Supplemental Material for Type of Art Expertise Matters: Practical Experts Show a Greater Curvature Preference for Three-Dimensional Shapes Than Theoretical Experts	27
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
The effect of imagery on the comprehension and aesthetic appreciation of Chinese ancient poetry.	27
The influence of culture on the viewing of Western and East Asian paintings.	26
Professional status matters: Differences in flow proneness between professional and amateur contemporary musicians.	26
Supplemental Material for Diminishing Creative Returns: Predicting Optimal Creative Performance via Individual Differences in Executive Functioning	25
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 Gender Differences in Creative Potential: A Meta-Analysis of Mean Differences and Variability	23
Supplemental Material for A View Worth Talking About: The Influence of Social Interaction on Aesthetic Experience and Well-Being Outcomes in the Gallery	22
Touch the color change: Representation of color change using tactile grating patterns.	22
The effect of self-expansion on creativity: Examining the role of novelty experiences.	21
Color’s perceptual diversity and categorical harmony improve aesthetic experience.	21
Exploring barriers to and drivers of participatory arts engagement in early adolescence.	20
Supplemental Material for A New Test for Assessing Creative Flexibility of Perceptual Interpretation: The Figural Interpretation Quest	20

Focus of attention affects togetherness experiences and body interactivity in piano duos.	20
Supplemental Material for A Brush With Scandal: How Artist Morality Shapes Aesthetic Preferences	20
Supplemental Material for A Computational Approach to Studying Aesthetic Judgments of Ambiguous Artworks	19
How do examples impact divergent thinking? The interplay between associative and executive processes.	19
Supplemental Material for Toward Equitable Creativity Self-Assessment: Measurement Invariance and Mean Differences Across Ethnicity in the Kaufman Domains of Creativity Scale	18
An improved taxonomy of creativity measures based on salient task attributes.	18
Supplemental Material for Photographs That Repulse or Entice: Sense-Making and Emotional Experiencing of Artistic Photographs	17
Eye color is more important than skin color for clothing color aesthetics.	17
Measuring storyworld possible selves in depression stories: Linguistic features, personal relevance, and the narrative experience.	16
Makeup works by modifying factors of facial beauty.	16
Assessing the robustness of automated scoring of divergent thinking tasks with adversarial examples.	16
A brush with scandal: How artist morality shapes aesthetic preferences.	16
Object-based practice effects recover the graphic object concept in Alzheimer’s dementia.	16
Supplemental Material for A Time and a Place for Art Perception	16
Supplemental Material for Original Photographic Art Induces Self-Transcendent Emotions	16
Staged and gendered pathways from parenting behaviors to Chinese students’ creative thinking: The roles of autonomous motivation and creative self-efficacy.	16
Does flower preference differ across cultures? A study of Czech and Kenyan populations.	16
Supplemental Material for Effect of Hedonic Contrasts on Movie Appreciation	15
Editor’s introduction.	15
An itsy bitsy audience: Live performance facilitates infants’ attention and heart rate synchronization.	15
The relation between the aesthetic perception of objects and the focus in visual attention across different stages of ego development.	14
Can young children control their creativity? Examining the role of executive function in modifying children’s creative processes.	14
Cathedrals of sound: Predictors of the sublime and the beautiful in music, images, and music with images.	14
Creative achievement and individual differences: Associations across and within the domains of creativity.	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
Adaptation of the Runco Ideational Behavior Scale into Turkish: A confirmatory factor analysis and Rasch study.	14
Supplemental Material for Effectiveness of Drama-Based Therapies on Mental Health Outcomes: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Controlled Studies	13
The role of expertise in visual exploration and aesthetic judgment of residential building façades: An eye-tracking study.	13
Editors’ Introduction to Part 1 of the Special Issue on Racial and Cultural Issues.	13
Review of The Psychology of Creative Performance and Expertise.	13
Implicit aesthetic processing and emotional priming: A functional magnetic resonance imaging study on artistic and nonartistic stimuli.	13
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	13
Do you chill when I chill? A cross-cultural study of strong emotional responses to music.	13
A systematic quantitative review of divergent thinking assessments.	13
Supplemental Material for The Influence of Culture on the Viewing of Western and East Asian Paintings	12
Were they appealing to the sun? On why cones and tetrahedra were so popular at the dawn of civilization.	12
Supplemental Material for How Do Examples Impact Divergent Thinking? The Interplay Between Associative and Executive Processes	12
Editors’ introduction April 2024.	12
Automated scoring of figural creativity using a convolutional neural network.	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
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
Artists have superior local and global processing abilities but show a preference for initially drawing globally.	11
Supplemental Material for Visuospatial Components of Drawing Skill Correlate With Mental Transformation Performance	11
Big-C creativity in artists and scientists is associated with more random global but less random local fMRI functional connectivity.	11
A Model of Creative Aging (MOCA): Unlocking the potential of constraints for creativity in older adults.	11
The complementary roles of intuition and logic in creative design ideation.	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.	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
Editors’ introduction.	10
Supplemental Material for Spirit Behind Appearance: Facial Motion Increases Facial Attractiveness Through Perceived Vitality	10
Subjective emotional instances surpass formal perceptual features in shaping the aesthetic appeal of artworks.	10
D-I-WHAT? Identifying creative domains in do-it-yourself videos on YouTube.	9
Supplemental Material for The Appeal of Insight: Why Riddles and Whodunits Captivate Us	9
Supplemental Material for The Temporal Instability of Aesthetic Preferences	9
Beyond the single picture: Aesthetic experiences with photography series in an exhibition context.	9
Overexcitabilities and bidirectional development in playfulness and creative potential among kindergarten children.	9
The brain entropy basis of schizotypal personality and its relation to fantasy proneness.	9
Aesthetic judgments of music: Reliability, consistency, criteria, self-insight, and expertise.	9
Supplemental Material for A Meta-Analysis of the Effects of Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation on Creative Thinking	9
Character strengths afforded by arts engagement during adolescence: The development and validation of the Creative Artistic Activities Strengths Affordances Scale.	9
Supplemental Material for Aesthetic Preferences Among Spatial Patterns: Large-Scale Experiment, Comprehensive Exploration, and a Three-Component Regularity-Based Model	9
The relationship between divergent thinking, emotional regulation in the arts, and cognitive reappraisal.	9
Supplemental Material for Applying Bodily Sensation Maps to Art-Elicited Emotions: An Explorative Study	9
Supplemental Material for From Momentary to Long-Term Affect: How Affective Processes Shape Poetic Creativity	8
Supplemental Material for Creative Mindset Induction Affects Beliefs but Not Creative Task Performance	8
Universality and specificity of the kindchenschema: A cross-cultural study on cute rectangles.	8
Supplemental Material for How Much Does Performance Quality Matter in Musical Emotion Induction? Main Effects and Interaction Effects With Listener Features	8
Supplemental Material for Emotion, Embodiment, and Aesthetic Appraisal: The Impact of Interoceptive Abilities and Art Type	8
Increasing music preference through guided self-framing: A comparison of historical and imaginative approaches.	8
Reliability and validity of a novel Ambulatory Battery of Creativity (ABC).	8
Trust the process: The effects of iteration in children’s creative processes on their creative products.	8
Differential effects of film genre on viewers’ absorption, identification, and enjoyment.	8
Understanding metaphor in art: Distinguishing literal giants from metaphorical challenges.	8
Automated feedback and creativity: On the role of metacognitive monitoring in divergent thinking.	8
Supplemental Material for Vigilance and Social Chills With Music: Evidence for Two Types of Musical Chills	8
Supplemental Material for Visual Exploration Mediates the Influence of Personal Traits on Responses to Artworks in an Art Gallery Setting	8
Imaginings from an unfamiliar world: Narrative engagement with a new musical system.	7
Methods used to study audience experience of screen-based media: A scoping review.	7
Visual perception of the built environment in virtual reality: A systematic characterization of human aesthetic experience in spaces with curved boundaries.	7
What types of daydreaming predict creativity? Laboratory and experience sampling evidence.	7
Editors’ introduction, February 2023.	7
Figuring out what they feel: Exposure to eudaimonic narrative fiction is related to mentalizing ability.	7
Supplemental Material for Paths to Transformation Across Contemporary Reading Practices: The Role of Motivations and Genre Preferences	7
The Aesthetic Responsiveness Assessment (AReA): A screening tool to assess individual differences in responsiveness to art in English and German.	7
Moving me, moving you: Emotional expressivity, empathy, and prior experience shape whole-body movement preferences.	7
Art as communication: Fulfilling Gricean communication principles predicts aesthetic liking.	7
Supplemental Material for Automated Feedback and Creativity: On the Role of Metacognitive Monitoring in Divergent Thinking	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
What a great feeling! The “experiencing art at school” program to engage children in visual arts and improve their emotional states.	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
The time-course of fixations in representational paintings: A cross-cultural study.	7
Processing fluency, processing style, and aesthetic response to artistic photographs.	7
Review of Why theatre education matters: Understanding its cognitive, social, and emotional benefits.	7
Vigilance and social chills with music: Evidence for two types of musical chills.	7
Supplemental Material for Beyond the Here and Now: Leveraging Distal Mental Simulation for Creative Breakthroughs	7
Supplemental Material for Presenting TaMuNaBe: A Taxonomy of Museum Navigation Behaviors	7
The relationship between lifetime book reading and empathy in adolescents: Examining transportability as a moderator.	6
Development and initial validation of the State Spontaneity Scale.	6
Less is more: The effect of visiting duration on the perceived restorativeness of museums.	6
Lofty aims, limited actors, fewer artifacts: A sociocultural analysis of Confucian conceptions of creativity and innovation.	6
Back where I belong: Rereading as a risk-free pathway to social connection.	6
Images influencing images: How pictorial context affects the emotional interpretation of art photographs.	6
How stable is the creative self-concept? A latent state-trait analysis.	6
Review of Mary Climbs In: The Journeys of Bruce Springsteen’s Women Fans.	6
Patterns of psychological vulnerabilities and resources in artists and nonartists.	6
Don't throw the “bad” ideas away! Multidimensional top scoring increases reliability of divergent thinking tasks.	6
Content warnings reduce aesthetic appreciation of visual art.	6
Visual attention bias for self-made artworks.	6
Supplemental Material for Movement-Based Music in the Classroom: Investigating the Effects of Music Programs Incorporating Body Movement in Primary School Children	6
Evaluation of aesthetic pleasure in schizophrenia spectrum disorders, using the eye-tracking methodology.	6
Multilingual semantic distance: Automatic verbal creativity assessment in many languages.	6
Supplemental Material for D-I-WHAT? Identifying Creative Domains in Do-It-Yourself Videos on YouTube	6
Audience responses to diverse superheroes: The roles of gender and race in forging connections with media characters in superhero franchise films.	6
Some like it sharp: Song familiarity influences musical preference for absolute tuning.	6
Acting gender: Actors’ experiences of gender role conformity and hopes for their characters.	5
The temporal instability of aesthetic preferences.	5
Mind wandering outside the box—About the role of off-task thoughts and their assessment during creative incubation.	5
Supplemental Material for Cultural Diversity in Oculometric Parameters When Viewing Art and Non-Art	5
Supplemental Material for The Usual Miracles: How Narrative Style Affects the Processing of Counterintuitive Concepts	5
Supplemental Material for The Effect of Implicit Theories of Human Beauty and Perceived Pressure on Cosmetic Consumption	5
Dual pathways in creative writing processes.	5
Together in the dark?: Investigating the understanding and feeling of intended emotions between viewers and professional artists at the Venice Biennale.	5
Fifty years later and still working: Rediscovering Paulus et al’s (1970) automated scoring of divergent thinking tests.	5
Visual arts activities relate to interest and cortisol for children in Head Start preschool.	5
Supplemental Material for Development and Validation of the Aesthetic Processing Preference Scale (APPS)	5
Does divergent thinking relate to expertise? Introducing a novel test of creative ideation in music.	5

Association between music use and depression among college students: The moderating roles of regulatory emotional self-efficacy and gender.	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
More light about each other: Theater education as a context for developing social awareness and relationship skills.	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
Supplemental Material for Challenging Magicians’ Intuitive Insights: The Role of Audience Participation in Experiencing a Magic Trick	5
Supplemental Material for More Light About Each Other: Theater Education as a Context for Developing Social Awareness and Relationship Skills	4
Supplemental Material for An Randomized Study of El Sistema-Inspired Youth Music Education Programming: Evidence Addressing Executive Function and Social–Emotional Learning	4
Artificial intelligence and art: Identifying the aesthetic judgment factors that distinguish human- and machine-generated artwork.	4
Supplemental Material for Subjective Emotional Instances Surpass Formal Perceptual Features in Shaping the Aesthetic Appeal of Artworks	4
Subjective understanding boosts contemporary art appreciation among primary school students.	4
Melody in poems and songs: Fundamental statistical properties predict aesthetic evaluation.	4
Supplemental Material for The Aesthetic Responsiveness Assessment (AReA) in Farsi Language: A Scale Validation and Cultural Adaptation Study	4
Supplemental Material for Judging Beauty and Liking: The Effects of Personal Intuitions and Task Instructions	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
Beyond the here and now: Leveraging distal mental simulation for creative breakthroughs.	4
Preference for paintings is also affected by curvature.	4
Untrustworthy beauty: Beautification strategies cause female applicators to be perceived untrustworthy.	4
Beauty lies in the eye of the mindful: Does mindfulness intensify aesthetic experience by freeing working memory resources?	4
What counts as aesthetics in science? A bibliometric analysis and visualization of the scientific literature from 1970 to 2018.	4
Supplemental Material for Laughing Across the Bridge: The Role of Associative Abilities in Humor	4
Gravitating toward the arts during the COVID-19 pandemic.	4
Supplemental Material for The Cognitive Brain Processes for Representing Form/Design Innovation and Function Innovation Product Designs	4
Identifying the functional relationships between creativity and its constituents: A task for response surface analysis?	4
Altering balance perception through the agent’s expression: Happy face suppresses the inward bias.	4
Cognitive reappraisal and creative self-concept among higher education students: A latent class analysis.	4
Conceptualizing, operationalizing, and assessing creativity in early childhood education and care settings: A scoping review.	4
Poetry-elicited emotions: Reading experience and psychological mechanisms.	4
Neural dissociation between computational and subjective image complexity.	4
The influence of anger and anxiety on idea generation: Taking a closer look at integral and incidental emotion effects.	4
Mood and creativity in children: Differential impacts on convergent and divergent thinking.	4
An exploratory study of historical representations of love in an art gallery exhibition.	4