Psychology of Aesthetics Creativity and the Arts

Article	Citations
What’s in a name? Book title salience and the psychology of fiction.	57
Supplemental Material for Who Likes the Grotesque? Mapping Individual Differences in Liking of Grotesque Artworks	49
Supplemental Material for The Aesthetic Quality Model: Complexity and Randomness as Foundations of Visual Beauty by Signaling Quality	48
Supplemental Material for Increasing Music Preference Through Guided Self-Framing: A Comparison of Historical and Imaginative Approaches	40
On the overlap between aesthetic disposition, cultural eclecticism, and openness: An interdisciplinary study.	37
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	37
Editors' introduction August 2022.	36
Pythagoras’ quest: A mathematical model and scale for aesthetic judgments.	35
Anterior insula is an integrative hub in aesthetic judgment.	35
Parent–child creative activities are associated with children’s positive affect and relationships quality.	34
Mental imagery in aesthetic appreciation and the understanding of the self and others.	34
A computational approach to studying aesthetic judgments of ambiguous artworks.	34
Supplemental Material for Gender Differences in Creative Potential: A Meta-Analysis of Mean Differences and Variability	30
Engaged and confused: Aesthetic appreciation of live and screened contemporary dance.	30
Supplemental Material for A New Test for Assessing Creative Flexibility of Perceptual Interpretation: The Figural Interpretation Quest	29
Supplemental Material for A Computational Approach to Studying Aesthetic Judgments of Ambiguous Artworks	29
Supplemental Material for A Brush With Scandal: How Artist Morality Shapes Aesthetic Preferences	27
Supplemental Material for Diminishing Creative Returns: Predicting Optimal Creative Performance via Individual Differences in Executive Functioning	26
Supplemental Material for Effect of a Creative Dance-Based Physical Education Intervention on Primary School Children’s Creativity and Self-Regulation: A Pilot Study	26
The effect of imagery on the comprehension and aesthetic appreciation of Chinese ancient poetry.	26
Supplemental Material for Type of Art Expertise Matters: Practical Experts Show a Greater Curvature Preference for Three-Dimensional Shapes Than Theoretical Experts	26
Supplemental Material for A View Worth Talking About: The Influence of Social Interaction on Aesthetic Experience and Well-Being Outcomes in the Gallery	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	25
Touch the color change: Representation of color change using tactile grating patterns.	24
Supplemental Material for Feeling Socially (Dis)Engaging Emotions With Favorite Music: The Role of Self-Construal Across Cultures	23

Supplemental Material for “Memorable Speech”: Formal and Affective Determinants of Memory for Poetry	23
The effect of self-expansion on creativity: Examining the role of novelty experiences.	22
Bias against artificial intelligence in visual art: A meta-analysis.	22
Exploring barriers to and drivers of participatory arts engagement in early adolescence.	22
The influence of culture on the viewing of Western and East Asian paintings.	21
Professional status matters: Differences in flow proneness between professional and amateur contemporary musicians.	21
How do examples impact divergent thinking? The interplay between associative and executive processes.	20
Color’s perceptual diversity and categorical harmony improve aesthetic experience.	20
Focus of attention affects togetherness experiences and body interactivity in piano duos.	20
Supplemental Material for Creativity Quotes: An Expansive Analysis of Condensed Wisdom	20
Supplemental Material for Original Photographic Art Induces Self-Transcendent Emotions	19
Supplemental Material for Toward Equitable Creativity Self-Assessment: Measurement Invariance and Mean Differences Across Ethnicity in the Kaufman Domains of Creativity Scale	19
A brush with scandal: How artist morality shapes aesthetic preferences.	19
An improved taxonomy of creativity measures based on salient task attributes.	19
Supplemental Material for Photographs That Repulse or Entice: Sense-Making and Emotional Experiencing of Artistic Photographs	18
Does flower preference differ across cultures? A study of Czech and Kenyan populations.	18
Supplemental Material for A Time and a Place for Art Perception	18
The heart behind the art: Motives for making art and how they influence audience appreciation.	18
Eye color is more important than skin color for clothing color aesthetics.	17
Assessing the robustness of automated scoring of divergent thinking tasks with adversarial examples.	17
Supplemental Material for A Systematic Approach to Study Preferences for Complexity at Different Levels of Order	17
Staged and gendered pathways from parenting behaviors to Chinese students’ creative thinking: The roles of autonomous motivation and creative self-efficacy.	16
Editor’s introduction.	16
The eye of an artist: How visual training shapes the way we compare visual scenes.	16
Measuring storyworld possible selves in depression stories: Linguistic features, personal relevance, and the narrative experience.	16
The relation between the aesthetic perception of objects and the focus in visual attention across different stages of ego development.	15
Supplemental Material for Imaginings From an Unfamiliar World: Narrative Engagement With a New Musical System	15
Review of The Psychology of Creative Performance and Expertise.	15
“It’s as though I woke up”: Exploring the experiences of older women with constricted life-space mobility in group tele-drama therapy.	15
Can young children control their creativity? Examining the role of executive function in modifying children’s creative processes.	15
Object-based practice effects recover the graphic object concept in Alzheimer’s dementia.	15
Implicit aesthetic processing and emotional priming: A functional magnetic resonance imaging study on artistic and nonartistic stimuli.	15
Supplemental Material for Effectiveness of Drama-Based Therapies on Mental Health Outcomes: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Controlled Studies	15
Thinking beyond your own experience: How expert cases and guidance enhance creativity for nonexperts.	14
The Aesthetic Responsiveness Assessment (AReA) in Farsi language: A scale validation and cultural adaptation study.	14
A systematic quantitative review of divergent thinking assessments.	14
Makeup works by modifying factors of facial beauty.	14
An itsy bitsy audience: Live performance facilitates infants’ attention and heart rate synchronization.	14
Cathedrals of sound: Predictors of the sublime and the beautiful in music, images, and music with images.	14
Supplemental Material for Filling in the Blanks of Ganzfeld Art	14
The computational and neural mechanisms of audiovisual multisensory aesthetic information influences on value-based decision-making.	14
Supplemental Material for Assessing Music Engagement: Adaptation, Validation, and Structural Invariance of Self-Rated and Informant French Versions of the Music Engagement Questionnaire in Middle and	14
Creative achievement and individual differences: Associations across and within the domains of creativity.	13
Adaptation of the Runco Ideational Behavior Scale into Turkish: A confirmatory factor analysis and Rasch study.	13
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
Supplemental Material for Books or Films, Ephemeral or Habitual? Untangling the Path From Narrative Fiction to Social Cognition	12
Supplemental Material for Spirit Behind Appearance: Facial Motion Increases Facial Attractiveness Through Perceived Vitality	12
The complementary roles of intuition and logic in creative design ideation.	12
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	12

Supplemental Material for Understanding the Psychology of Fashion: Demographic, Personality, and Fashion Factors Underlying Everyday Clothing Choices in the United Kingdom and United States	12
The relationship between mobile phone use and creative ideation among college students: The roles of critical thinking and creative self-efficacy.	12
Big-C creativity in artists and scientists is associated with more random global but less random local fMRI functional connectivity.	12
Supplemental Material for Visuospatial Components of Drawing Skill Correlate With Mental Transformation Performance	12
Automated scoring of figural creativity using a convolutional neural network.	12
Editors’ Introduction to Part 1 of the Special Issue on Racial and Cultural Issues.	11
The relationship between divergent thinking, emotional regulation in the arts, and cognitive reappraisal.	11
Still images, shifting minds: Testing the transformative effects of evocative visuals.	11
Subjective emotional instances surpass formal perceptual features in shaping the aesthetic appeal of artworks.	11
A Model of Creative Aging (MOCA): Unlocking the potential of constraints for creativity in older adults.	11
Editors’ introduction April 2024.	11
Artists have superior local and global processing abilities but show a preference for initially drawing globally.	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
The art of feeling different: Exploring the diversity of emotions experienced during an art museum visit.	11
Character strengths afforded by arts engagement during adolescence: The development and validation of the Creative Artistic Activities Strengths Affordances Scale.	10
Supplemental Material for The Appeal of Insight: Why Riddles and Whodunits Captivate Us	10
Supplemental Material for Aesthetic Preferences Among Spatial Patterns: Large-Scale Experiment, Comprehensive Exploration, and a Three-Component Regularity-Based Model	10
Acknowledgment of Ad Hoc Reviewers	10
The brain entropy basis of schizotypal personality and its relation to fantasy proneness.	10
Supplemental Material for The Temporal Instability of Aesthetic Preferences	10
Divergent versus convergent creativity in children: Neural dissociation of novelty and usefulness via fNIRS.	10
Feeling socially (dis)engaging emotions with favorite music: The role of self-construal across cultures.	9
Children’s concepts of creativity in video games.	9
D-I-WHAT? Identifying creative domains in do-it-yourself videos on YouTube.	9
Supplemental Material for Visual Exploration Mediates the Influence of Personal Traits on Responses to Artworks in an Art Gallery Setting	9
Overexcitabilities and bidirectional development in playfulness and creative potential among kindergarten children.	9
Art has no gender, only gender bias.	9
Automated feedback and creativity: On the role of metacognitive monitoring in divergent thinking.	9
Supplemental Material for Emotion, Embodiment, and Aesthetic Appraisal: The Impact of Interoceptive Abilities and Art Type	9
Editors’ introduction.	9
“Like static noise in a beautiful landscape”: A mixed-methods approach to rationales and features of disliked voices in popular music.	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
Beyond the single picture: Aesthetic experiences with photography series in an exhibition context.	9
Processing fluency, processing style, and aesthetic response to artistic photographs.	8
Imaginings from an unfamiliar world: Narrative engagement with a new musical system.	8
What a great feeling! The “experiencing art at school” program to engage children in visual arts and improve their emotional states.	8
Both science and art elicit emotional well-being: An examination of creativity and mood.	8
Supplemental Material for How Much Does Performance Quality Matter in Musical Emotion Induction? Main Effects and Interaction Effects With Listener Features	8
Methods used to study audience experience of screen-based media: A scoping review.	8
Supplemental Material for Inhale, Exhale, Draw: A Guided Drawing and Mindfulness Intervention for Anxiety Reduction	8
Trust the process: The effects of iteration in children’s creative processes on their creative products.	8
Figuring out what they feel: Exposure to eudaimonic narrative fiction is related to mentalizing ability.	8
Supplemental Material for Beyond the Here and Now: Leveraging Distal Mental Simulation for Creative Breakthroughs	8
Universality and specificity of the kindchenschema: A cross-cultural study on cute rectangles.	8
Reliability and validity of a novel Ambulatory Battery of Creativity (ABC).	8
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
Moving me, moving you: Emotional expressivity, empathy, and prior experience shape whole-body movement preferences.	8
Supplemental Material for Canceling Creativity? Exploring Artist Censure As a Function of Crime Type	8
Visual perception of the built environment in virtual reality: A systematic characterization of human aesthetic experience in spaces with curved boundaries.	8
Free but controlled mind creates through reference: The role of shifting and idea referencing in individuals with different working memory and mind wandering profiles.	8
Neuroarchitecture of aesthetic experience: Investigating brain oscillations for interior spaces with curved boundaries in virtual reality.	8
Understanding metaphor in art: Distinguishing literal giants from metaphorical challenges.	8
Increasing music preference through guided self-framing: A comparison of historical and imaginative approaches.	8
The time-course of fixations in representational paintings: A cross-cultural study.	8
Review of Why theatre education matters: Understanding its cognitive, social, and emotional benefits.	8
Supplemental Material for Paths to Transformation Across Contemporary Reading Practices: The Role of Motivations and Genre Preferences	7
Supplemental Material for D-I-WHAT? Identifying Creative Domains in Do-It-Yourself Videos on YouTube	7
Supplemental Material for Movement-Based Music in the Classroom: Investigating the Effects of Music Programs Incorporating Body Movement in Primary School Children	7
Inhale, exhale, draw: A guided drawing and mindfulness intervention for anxiety reduction.	7
How stable is the creative self-concept? A latent state-trait analysis.	7
Development and initial validation of the State Spontaneity Scale.	7
Supplemental Material for Automated Feedback and Creativity: On the Role of Metacognitive Monitoring in Divergent Thinking	7
Content warnings reduce aesthetic appreciation of visual art.	7
Editors’ introduction, February 2023.	7
Less is more: The effect of visiting duration on the perceived restorativeness of museums.	7
Vigilance and social chills with music: Evidence for two types of musical chills.	7
Review of Mary Climbs In: The Journeys of Bruce Springsteen’s Women Fans.	7
Evaluation of aesthetic pleasure in schizophrenia spectrum disorders, using the eye-tracking methodology.	7
Lofty aims, limited actors, fewer artifacts: A sociocultural analysis of Confucian conceptions of creativity and innovation.	7
Don't throw the “bad” ideas away! Multidimensional top scoring increases reliability of divergent thinking tasks.	7
Multilingual semantic distance: Automatic verbal creativity assessment in many languages.	7
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
Association between music use and depression among college students: The moderating roles of regulatory emotional self-efficacy and gender.	6
Some like it sharp: Song familiarity influences musical preference for absolute tuning.	6
Audience responses to diverse superheroes: The roles of gender and race in forging connections with media characters in superhero franchise films.	6
Dual pathways in creative writing processes.	6
Supplemental Material for Challenging Magicians’ Intuitive Insights: The Role of Audience Participation in Experiencing a Magic Trick	6

The relationship between lifetime book reading and empathy in adolescents: Examining transportability as a moderator.	6
Together in the dark?: Investigating the understanding and feeling of intended emotions between viewers and professional artists at the Venice Biennale.	6
The aesthetic experience of live concerts: Self-reports and psychophysiology.	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 temporal instability of aesthetic preferences.	6
Supplemental Material for The Computational and Neural Mechanisms of Audiovisual Multisensory Aesthetic Information Influences on Value-Based Decision-Making	6
Fifty years later and still working: Rediscovering Paulus et al’s (1970) automated scoring of divergent thinking tests.	6
Visual attention bias for self-made artworks.	6
Visual arts activities relate to interest and cortisol for children in Head Start preschool.	5
Beyond the here and now: Leveraging distal mental simulation for creative breakthroughs.	5
Supplemental Material for The Aesthetic Responsiveness Assessment (AReA) in Farsi Language: A Scale Validation and Cultural Adaptation Study	5
Subjective understanding boosts contemporary art appreciation among primary school students.	5
More light about each other: Theater education as a context for developing social awareness and relationship skills.	5
Identifying the functional relationships between creativity and its constituents: A task for response surface analysis?	5
Supplemental Material for Cultural Diversity in Oculometric Parameters When Viewing Art and Non-Art	5
Mood and creativity in children: Differential impacts on convergent and divergent thinking.	5
Supplemental Material for More Light About Each Other: Theater Education as a Context for Developing Social Awareness and Relationship Skills	5
An exploratory study of historical representations of love in an art gallery exhibition.	5
Conceptualizing, operationalizing, and assessing creativity in early childhood education and care settings: A scoping review.	5
Supplemental Material for Sense-Sational Acting: Intuition in Actors Is Supported by Interoceptive, Exteroceptive, and Immersive Abilities	5
Supplemental Material for Laughing Across the Bridge: The Role of Associative Abilities in Humor	5
Art therapy with women survivors of intimate partner violence: A scoping review.	5
Preference for paintings is also affected by curvature.	5
Modality influences perceived film suspense but not time perception.	5
Supplemental Material for Subjective Emotional Instances Surpass Formal Perceptual Features in Shaping the Aesthetic Appeal of Artworks	5
Artificial intelligence and art: Identifying the aesthetic judgment factors that distinguish human- and machine-generated artwork.	5
Pitch height and mode have asymmetrical effects on the perception of mixed emotions in major and minor seventh chords.	5
Beauty lies in the eye of the mindful: Does mindfulness intensify aesthetic experience by freeing working memory resources?	5
Neural dissociation between computational and subjective image complexity.	5
Supplemental Material for The Usual Miracles: How Narrative Style Affects the Processing of Counterintuitive Concepts	5
Does divergent thinking relate to expertise? Introducing a novel test of creative ideation in music.	5