Psychology of Aesthetics Creativity and the Arts

Article	Citations
Supplemental Material for Beauty Is in the Brain Networks of the Beholder: An Exploratory Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging Study	81
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	62
The role of imagery and emotion in the aesthetic appeal of music, poetry, and paintings.	47
Preference for curvature in paintings extends to museum context.	37
Supplemental Material for Were They Appealing to the Sun? On Why Cones and Tetrahedra Were So Popular at the Dawn of Civilization	34
Supplemental Material for Lost in Digitization: The Physical Format of Creative Work Affects Authenticity Perceptions	31
Supplemental Material for How Much Does Performance Quality Matter in Musical Emotion Induction? Main Effects and Interaction Effects With Listener Features	31
Supplemental Material for Conceptualizing and Measuring Ability Emotional Creativity	28
Supplemental Material for Creative Achievement and Individual Differences: Associations Across and Within the Domains of Creativity	26
Supplemental Material for Aesthetic Judgments of Music: Reliability, Consistency, Criteria, Self-Insight, and Expertise	26
Supplemental Material for Vigilance and Social Chills With Music: Evidence for Two Types of Musical Chills	26
Supplemental Material for Melody in Poems and Songs: Fundamental Statistical Properties Predict Aesthetic Evaluation	24
Supplemental Material for Exploration of Discriminant Validity in Divergent Thinking Tasks: A Meta-Analysis	24
The good, the bad, and the complex: A mini meta-analysis of integrative complexity, entertainment, and perceptions of quality.	24
The textual features of fiction that appeal to readers: Emotion and abstractness.	23
How constraints impact creativity: An interaction paradigm.	22
Does the frame of an artwork matter? Cultural framing and aesthetic judgments for abstract and representational art.	21
Supplemental Material for Achievement Goal Orientation and Employee Creativity: A Meta-Analysis	19
Supplemental Material for Who Is the Most Creative of Them All?: Art Bias in Laypersons’ Explicit and Implicit Beliefs	19
Engaged and confused: Aesthetic appreciation of live and screened contemporary dance.	19
Dancing through the uncanny valley: On the likeability of model-generated dance movements.	19
Methods used to study audience experience of screen-based media: A scoping review.	19
In the dark cube: Movie theater context enhances the valuation and aesthetic experience of watching films.	18
Supplemental Material for Visual Exploration Mediates the Influence of Personal Traits on Responses to Artworks in an Art Gallery Setting	18
Supplemental Material for Dynamic Complexity in Audiovisual Aesthetics	18

Action mismatches across movie edits minimally impact perceived smoothness and change detection.	18
Supplemental Material for Further Validating the VAIAK: Defining a Psychometric Model, Configural Measurement Invariance, Reliability, and Practical Guidelines	17
A novel coding scheme for assessing responses in divergent thinking: An embodied approach.	17
Music-evoked pleasantness modulates theta synchronization within a fronto-temporal music-related network.	17
Supplemental Material for A Multifactorial Model of Visual Imagery and Its Relationship to Creativity and the Vividness of Visual Imagery Questionnaire	16
Supplemental Material for Who Likes the Grotesque? Mapping Individual Differences in Liking of Grotesque Artworks	16
Creative thinking and executive functions: Associations and training effects in adolescents.	16
Supplemental Material for The Aesthetic Quality Model: Complexity and Randomness as Foundations of Visual Beauty by Signaling Quality	15
Supplemental Material for Increasing Music Preference Through Guided Self-Framing: A Comparison of Historical and Imaginative Approaches	15
Temporal individual differences and creativity: An exploratory investigation.	14
Supplemental Material for Creative Mindset Induction Affects Beliefs but Not Creative Task Performance	14
Creative mindset induction affects beliefs but not creative task performance.	14
Supplemental Material for Emotion, Embodiment, and Aesthetic Appraisal: The Impact of Interoceptive Abilities and Art Type	14
Applying bodily sensation maps to art-elicited emotions: An explorative study.	13
Eye and lips in artistic profiles.	13
On the overlap between aesthetic disposition, cultural eclecticism, and openness: An interdisciplinary study.	13
Impact of contextualizing information on aesthetic experience and psychophysiological responses to art in a museum: A naturalistic randomized controlled trial.	13
Differential effects of film genre on viewers’ absorption, identification, and enjoyment.	13
Constraints to malevolent innovation in terrorist attacks.	13
Comparing effects of visual thinking strategies in a classroom and a museum.	13
Increasing music preference through guided self-framing: A comparison of historical and imaginative approaches.	12
Creative idea forecasting: The effect of task exposure on idea evaluation.	12
What is good is beautiful (and what isn’t, isn’t): How moral character affects perceived facial attractiveness.	12
Figuring out what they feel: Exposure to eudaimonic narrative fiction is related to mentalizing ability.	12
The time-course of fixations in representational paintings: A cross-cultural study.	12
What’s in a name? Book title salience and the psychology of fiction.	12
Trust the process: The effects of iteration in children’s creative processes on their creative products.	11
Applying German word vectors to assess flexibility performance in the associative fluency task.	11
The impact of fiction reading on social outcomes: A 4-week randomized controlled study.	11
Exploration of discriminant validity in divergent thinking tasks: A meta-analysis.	11
The effect of visual recognition on listener choices when searching for music in playlists.	11
Stereo viewing upsets cinematic continuity: Filmic cuts are more salient in 3D than in 2D movies.	11
Understanding metaphor in art: Distinguishing literal giants from metaphorical challenges.	11
Board games enhance creativity: Evidence from two studies.	11
Narrative aesthetic absorption in audiobooks is predicted by blink rate and acoustic features.	10
The role of transparency in color preferences: Sweetness expectation and preference for translucency.	10
Creative minecrafters: Cognitive and personality determinants of creativity, novelty, and usefulness in minecraft.	10
Personality traits as predictors of work creativity: A comparison between self- and other-reports.	10
A computational approach to studying aesthetic judgments of ambiguous artworks.	10
The visual language of pain: The role of rendering style and pain type in aesthetic and empathetic appraisals of painful images.	10
Participation in intensive orchestral music training does not cause gains in executive functioning, self-perception, or attitudes toward school in young children.	10
Editors' introduction August 2022.	10
Individual differences in aesthetic engagement and proneness to aesthetic chill: Associations with stress-related growth orientation.	10
Musical ethnocultural identity, happiness, and internalizing symptoms in youth.	10
Processing fluency, processing style, and aesthetic response to artistic photographs.	10
Original photographic art induces self-transcendent emotions.	10
Does it kill the imagination dead? The effect of film versus reading on mental imagery.	10
Shaping film: A quantitative formal analysis of contemporary empathy-eliciting Hollywood cinema.	9
Reliability and validity of a novel Ambulatory Battery of Creativity (ABC).	9
Differentiating types of cinematographic shot changes by cut through an EEG power spectral analysis.	9

A divergent approach to pareidolias—Exploring creativity in a novel way.	9
Lost in digitization: The physical format of creative work affects authenticity perceptions.	9
Differentiating the visual aesthetics of the sublime and the beautiful: Selective effects of stimulus size, height, and color on sublimity and beauty ratings in photographs.	9
The impact of top performers in creative groups.	9
Mental imagery in aesthetic appreciation and the understanding of the self and others.	9
Beauty is in the brain networks of the beholder: An exploratory functional magnetic resonance imaging study.	9
Visual perception of the built environment in virtual reality: A systematic characterization of human aesthetic experience in spaces with curved boundaries.	8
The Aesthetic Responsiveness Assessment (AReA): A screening tool to assess individual differences in responsiveness to art in English and German.	8
Visual preference for abstract curvature and for interior spaces: Beyond undergraduate student samples.	8
A survey of the conceptual structure of aesthetic response to sports.	8
Imaginings from an unfamiliar world: Narrative engagement with a new musical system.	8
Do parents and children perceive creativity similarly? A dyadic study of creative mindsets.	8
Universality and specificity of the kindchenschema: A cross-cultural study on cute rectangles.	8
The aesthetic quality model: Complexity and randomness as foundations of visual beauty by signaling quality.	8
The impact of social exclusion on malevolent creativity: The mediating role of prosocial motivation.	8
Conceptualizing and measuring ability emotional creativity.	8
Prosocial motivation and creativity in the arts and sciences: Qualitative and quantitative evidence.	8
The utility of divergent and convergent thinking in the problem construction processes during creative problem-solving.	7
Social bonding and implicit learning may mediate the prediction-related hedonic response to music.	7
The role of asking more complex questions in creative thinking.	7
Supplemental Material for Methods Used to Study Audience Experience of Screen-Based Media: A Scoping Review	7
Supplemental Material for Is There a General “Art Fatigue” Effect? A Cross-Paradigm, Cross-Cultural Study of Repeated Art Viewing in the Laboratory	7
Art as communication: Fulfilling Gricean communication principles predicts aesthetic liking.	7
The advantage of novel solutions on subsequent memory in insight problems.	7
Music self-efficacy, self-esteem, and help-seeking orientation among amateur musicians who use online music tutorials.	7
How lasting is the impact of art?: An exploratory study of the incidence and duration of art exhibition-induced prosocial attitude change using a 2-week daily diary method.	7
Supplemental Material for Motivation to Make Music Matters: Daily Autonomous Motivation, Flow, and Well-Being in Hobby Musicians	7
Supplemental Material for When Rule Breaking in Art Falls Flat: Cultural Tightness Deflates Deviant Artists’ Impact	7
Awe is associated with creative personality, convergent creativity, and everyday creativity.	7
How much does performance quality matter in musical emotion induction? Main effects and interaction effects with listener features.	7
What types of daydreaming predict creativity? Laboratory and experience sampling evidence.	7
Supplemental Material for The Indestructible Nature of Art	7
Supplemental Material for Implicit Responses in the Judgment of Attractiveness in Faces With Differing Levels of Makeup	7
Supplemental Material for Paths to Transformation Across Contemporary Reading Practices: The Role of Motivations and Genre Preferences	7
Supplemental Material for Pupil Dilation Is Driven by Perceptions of Naturalness of Color Composition in Paintings	6
Supplemental Material for Color’s Perceptual Diversity and Categorical Harmony Improve Aesthetic Experience	6
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	6
Supplemental Material for Object-Based Practice Effects Recover the Graphic Object Concept in Alzheimer’s Dementia	6
Supplemental Material for A Computational Approach to Studying Aesthetic Judgments of Ambiguous Artworks	6
Supplemental Material for D-I-WHAT? Identifying Creative Domains in Do-It-Yourself Videos on YouTube	6
Supplemental Material for Is Humor Temperament Associated With Being Creative, Original, and Funny? A Tale of Three Studies	6
Review of Why theatre education matters: Understanding its cognitive, social, and emotional benefits.	6
Supplemental Material for A New Test for Assessing Creative Flexibility of Perceptual Interpretation: The Figural Interpretation Quest	6
Supplemental Material for Does the Frame of an Artwork Matter? Cultural Framing and Aesthetic Judgments for Abstract and Representational Art	6
Supplemental Material for Presenting TaMuNaBe: A Taxonomy of Museum Navigation Behaviors	6
Supplemental Material for More Recruitment but Inefficient Performance: The Effects of Creativity Anxiety on Consciously Augmenting State Creativity in the Figural Domain	6
Supplemental Material for Self-Regulation for Creative Activity: The Same or Different Across Domains?	6
Supplemental Material for Automated Feedback and Creativity: On the Role of Metacognitive Monitoring in Divergent Thinking	6
Beyond the big personality dimensions: Consistency and specificity of associations between the Dark Triad traits and creativity.	5
Supplemental Material for How Lasting is the Impact of Art?: An Exploratory Study of the Incidence and Duration of Art Exhibition-Induced Prosocial Attitude Change Using a 2-Week Daily Diary Method	5
Hybrid ideas of artificial intelligence and human: Growth of creativity in college educational programs.	5
Supplemental Material for Beyond the Here and Now: Leveraging Distal Mental Simulation for Creative Breakthroughs	5
Supplemental Material for A View Worth Talking About: The Influence of Social Interaction on Aesthetic Experience and Well-Being Outcomes in the Gallery	5
Radically revolutionary or pretty flowers? The impact of curatorial narrative of artistic deviance on perceived artist influence.	5
Evaluation of aesthetic pleasure in schizophrenia spectrum disorders, using the eye-tracking methodology.	5
Seeking (dis)order: Ordering appeals but slight disorder and complex order trigger interest.	5
Liking for abstract and representational art: National identity as an art appreciation heuristic.	5
Experiencing musical beauty: Emotional subtypes and their physiological and musico-acoustic correlates.	5
“I may look fake but I’m real where it counts”: Positivity and authenticity in the songs of Dolly Parton.	5
Development and initial validation of the State Spontaneity Scale.	5
Machine creativity: Aversion, appreciation, or indifference?	5
Supplemental Material for Effect of a Creative Dance-Based Physical Education Intervention on Primary School Children’s Creativity and Self-Regulation: A Pilot Study	5
What a great feeling! The “experiencing art at school” program to engage children in visual arts and improve their emotional states.	5
From “a nothing” to something special: Art as a space of holding attunement in the creative experience of Holocaust survivor artists.	5
Supplemental Material for Bridging the Gap Through Common Features: The Semantic Structure of Creative Metaphors	5
Supplemental Material for Assessment of Creativity: Adaptation and Validation of the Runco Ideational Behavior Scale for Vietnamese Students	5
Supplemental Material for Development and Validation of the Mechanisms of Engagement in the Arts and Humanities Scales	5
Editors’ introduction, February 2023.	5
Free but controlled mind creates through reference: The role of shifting and idea referencing in individuals with different working memory and mind wandering profiles.	5
Supplemental Material for Gender Differences in Creative Potential: A Meta-Analysis of Mean Differences and Variability	5
The pleasures of reading fiction explained by flow, presence, identification, suspense, and cognitive involvement.	5
Creative self-enhancement in a team context: The role of gender, creative self-concept, and trait hypercompetitiveness.	5
Supplemental Material for Type of Art Expertise Matters: Practical Experts Show a Greater Curvature Preference for Three-Dimensional Shapes Than Theoretical Experts	5
Focus of attention affects togetherness experiences and body interactivity in piano duos.	4
Impact of Veteran Journeys opera on audience member attitudes related to veterans with posttraumatic stress or unstable housing.	4
Neuroticism, musical emotion regulation, musical coping, mental health, and musicianship characteristics.	4
Less is more: The effect of visiting duration on the perceived restorativeness of museums.	4
Perceiving versus scrutinizing: Viewers do not default to awareness of small spatiotemporal inconsistencies in movie edits.	4
Further validating the VAIAK: Defining a psychometric model, configural measurement invariance, reliability, and practical guidelines.	4
Exploring barriers to and drivers of participatory arts engagement in early adolescence.	4

How do examples impact divergent thinking? The interplay between associative and executive processes.	4
An empirical assessment of cinematic continuity.	4
Reflection in the creative process of early adolescents: The mediating roles of creative metacognition, self-efficacy, and self-concept.	4
Don't throw the “bad” ideas away! Multidimensional top scoring increases reliability of divergent thinking tasks.	4
Self-awareness of musical ability.	4
Motivation to make music matters: Daily autonomous motivation, flow, and well-being in hobby musicians.	4
Effect of hedonic contrasts on movie appreciation.	4
Developmental trends in creative ability: A cross-sectional examination of figural and verbal domains across the school-age years.	4
Why Boulder Springs has no boulders and no springs: Evolved landscape preferences and naming conventions.	4
An initial examination of computer programs as creative works.	4
Professional status matters: Differences in flow proneness between professional and amateur contemporary musicians.	4
Touch the color change: Representation of color change using tactile grating patterns.	4
Is a “real” artwork better than a reproduction? A meta-analysis of the genuineness effect.	4
Smooth as glass and hard as stone? On the conceptual structure of the aesthetics of materials.	4
The effect of self-expansion on creativity: Examining the role of novelty experiences.	4
Interdependencies between openness and creativity of fifth graders.	4
One hundred and fifty years after Fechner: A view from the “middle of the storm”.	4
Participation in life-review playback theater enhances mental health of community-dwelling older adults: A randomized controlled trial.	4
Review of Integrated care for the traumatized: A whole-person approach.	4
All that glitters is gold: Development and validation of the Product Aesthetics Inventory (PAI).	4
Reciprocal relations between autonomous motivation and creativity: A longitudinal investigation of Chinese children and adolescents.	4
Sharing research outcomes with traditional owners.	4
Combining typeface and color to prime specific taste expectations.	4
The influence of culture on the viewing of Western and East Asian paintings.	4
Predictors of cognitive and motor creativity in childhood.	4
Not just for decoration: How the arts complement science, technology, engineering, and mathematics learning.	4