Psychology of Aesthetics Creativity and the Arts

Applying many-facet Rasch modeling in the assessment of creativity.

Names and titles matter: The impact of linguistic fluency and the affect heuristic on aesthetic and value judgements of music.

The expression of schizotypy in the daily lives of artists

Experiencing musical beauty: Emotional subtypes and their physiological and musico-acoustic correlates.

Understanding inner music: A dimensional approach to musical imagery.

Quantifying the if, the when, and the what of the sublime: A survey and latent class analysis of incidence, emotions, and distinct varieties of personal sublime experiences.

Popularity, mood, energy, and typicality in music: a computerized analysis of 204,506 pieces

Eudaimonia, hedonia, and fan behavior: Examining the motives of fans of fictional texts.

Assessing emotional experiences of opera spectators in situ.

The relevance of the irrelevant : Attentional distractor-response binding predicts performance in the remote associates task.

The Spectatorship of Portraits by Naïve Beholders

Learning to See by Learning to Draw: A Longitudinal Analysis of the Relationship Between Representational Drawing Training and Visuospatial Skill

Not just clowning around: Investigating psychological mechanisms underlying accidents in a heterogeneous group of contemporary circus artists.

The textual features of fiction that appeal to readers: Emotion and abstractness.

Interest and investment in fictional romances.

In the dark cube: Movie theater context enhances the valuation and aesthetic experience of watching films.

“Kneweth one who makes these notes . . .”: Personality, individual differences, and liking of nouveau roman and existentialist literature and film.