Psychology of Aesthetics Creativity and the Arts

Papers
(The TQCC of Psychology of Aesthetics Creativity and the Arts is 5. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)
ArticleCitations
What’s in a name? Book title salience and the psychology of fiction.43
Editors' introduction August 2022.39
Supplemental Material for Increasing Music Preference Through Guided Self-Framing: A Comparison of Historical and Imaginative Approaches36
Supplemental Material for The Aesthetic Quality Model: Complexity and Randomness as Foundations of Visual Beauty by Signaling Quality36
Supplemental Material for Who Likes the Grotesque? Mapping Individual Differences in Liking of Grotesque Artworks36
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 Japan35
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 Quest25
Supplemental Material for Gender Differences in Creative Potential: A Meta-Analysis of Mean Differences and Variability25
Supplemental Material for A Computational Approach to Studying Aesthetic Judgments of Ambiguous Artworks24
Supplemental Material for A Brush With Scandal: How Artist Morality Shapes Aesthetic Preferences23
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 Functioning21
Supplemental Material for Type of Art Expertise Matters: Practical Experts Show a Greater Curvature Preference for Three-Dimensional Shapes Than Theoretical Experts20
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 Profiles20
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 Study20
Supplemental Material for A View Worth Talking About: The Influence of Social Interaction on Aesthetic Experience and Well-Being Outcomes in the Gallery20
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 Cultures18
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
Supplemental Material for “Memorable Speech”: Formal and Affective Determinants of Memory for Poetry17
Supplemental Material for Original Photographic Art Induces Self-Transcendent Emotions17
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 Scale17
Color’s perceptual diversity and categorical harmony improve aesthetic experience.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 Perception16
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 Photographs16
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 Studies14
Supplemental Material for Effect of Hedonic Contrasts on Movie Appreciation14
Supplemental Material for A Systematic Approach to Study Preferences for Complexity at Different Levels of Order14
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 Art13
Supplemental Material for Imaginings From an Unfamiliar World: Narrative Engagement With a New Musical System13
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
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-Efficacy12
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
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 Vitality11
Supplemental Material for Understanding the Psychology of Fashion: Demographic, Personality, and Fashion Factors Underlying Everyday Clothing Choices in the United Kingdom and United States11
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 Review11
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 Processes11
Supplemental Material for Books or Films, Ephemeral or Habitual? Untangling the Path From Narrative Fiction to Social Cognition11
Supplemental Material for Visuospatial Components of Drawing Skill Correlate With Mental Transformation Performance11
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 Thinking10
Editors’ introduction.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
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 Reviewers9
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 Preferences9
Supplemental Material for Aesthetic Preferences Among Spatial Patterns: Large-Scale Experiment, Comprehensive Exploration, and a Three-Component Regularity-Based Model9
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 The Appeal of Insight: Why Riddles and Whodunits Captivate Us9
Supplemental Material for Visual Exploration Mediates the Influence of Personal Traits on Responses to Artworks in an Art Gallery Setting8
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 Creativity8
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
Supplemental Material for Creative Mindset Induction Affects Beliefs but Not Creative Task Performance8
Supplemental Material for Emotion, Embodiment, and Aesthetic Appraisal: The Impact of Interoceptive Abilities and Art Type8
Supplemental Material for How Much Does Performance Quality Matter in Musical Emotion Induction? Main Effects and Interaction Effects With Listener Features8
The time-course of fixations in representational paintings: A cross-cultural study.8
Processing fluency, processing style, and aesthetic response to artistic photographs.8
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 Studies7
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 YouTube7
Supplemental Material for Paths to Transformation Across Contemporary Reading Practices: The Role of Motivations and Genre Preferences7
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 Breakthroughs7
Content warnings reduce aesthetic appreciation of visual art.7
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 Thinking7
Reliability and validity of a novel Ambulatory Battery of Creativity (ABC).7
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 Trick6
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
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 Children6
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 Humor5
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 Consumption5
Supplemental Material for The Usual Miracles: How Narrative Style Affects the Processing of Counterintuitive Concepts5
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 Abilities5
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
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-Art5
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