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Evaluation of aesthetic pleasure in schizophrenia spectrum disorders, using the eye-tracking methodology.
Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts, Vol 17(1), Feb 2023, 16-28; doi:10.1037/aca0000387Aesthetic perception plays a significant role in social behavior. The ability to recognize and perceive beauty is important for social situations in that it can create different expectations about human behavior. It has been hypothesized that the aesthetic experience is characterized by emotional and hedonic responses to the stimuli. People with schizophrenia are characterized by the presence of negative symptoms, such as anhedonia, which affect daily social functioning. We explored the idea that the presence of anhedonia ...
Source: Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity and the Arts - May 13, 2021 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Constraints to malevolent innovation in terrorist attacks.
Conclusions from this study extend the theory of constraints to the novel arena of terrorist research and provide a new lens from which to understand the failures and successes of terrorist attacks. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2023 APA, all rights reserved) (Source: Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity and the Arts)
Source: Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity and the Arts - May 6, 2021 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Is a “real” artwork better than a reproduction? A meta-analysis of the genuineness effect.
In this study, we used meta-analysis to assess the current evidence for the genuineness effect. We found a meta-analytic effect of Hedges’s g =.32 (N = 11). However, only three studies did not include a context confound (i.e., real artworks in a museum vs. reproductions in the lab), and when this moderator was considered, the effect seemed to disappear. Furthermore, we found a lot of heterogeneity between studies. Thus, we looked at additional moderators: type of genuine artwork, type (and quality) of reproductions, aesthetic experience measure, and number of artworks included. We found that only the type of reproduction...
Source: Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity and the Arts - May 3, 2021 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Creative thinking and executive functions: Associations and training effects in adolescents.
Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts, Vol 17(1), Feb 2023, 79-90; doi:10.1037/aca0000392Previous research on the association between executive functions and creativity has revealed mixed results. Here, we examined which of three components of executive functioning, working memory (WM) updating, inhibition, and shifting ability, is most strongly associated with which aspect of creative thinking in a group of young adolescents. Moreover, we assessed the effects of specifically training that function on various measures of creative thinking. In Study 1, 73 13- to 15-year-old adolescents performed tasks measuring...
Source: Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity and the Arts - April 29, 2021 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Cultural withdrawal during COVID-19 lockdown: Impact in a sample of 828 artists and recipients of highbrow culture in Germany.
Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts, Vol 17(3), Jun 2023, 369-381; doi:10.1037/aca0000389Dealing with arts is an important predictor for psychological well-being and health. The implications of the standstill of public cultural life during the lockdown in Germany is studied among 828 producers (36%) or consumers (36%) of art, or subjects claiming both roles (28%), from performative arts, music, and other forms of cultural engagement. Prelockdown frequency of visiting, respectively, acting at cultural events was on average 1 event every 8.4th day in the consumer group, 5.9 days in the producer group, and 6.1 ...
Source: Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity and the Arts - March 29, 2021 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

The aesthetic experience of live concerts: Self-reports and psychophysiology.
Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts, Vol 17(2), Apr 2023, 134-151; doi:10.1037/aca0000390Music listening can lead to strong aesthetic experiences. However, to gain deeper insights into such experiences, more empirical research outside of laboratory settings is required. The current exploratory study measured aesthetic experience (music-induced emotions and absorption) in combination with psychophysiology (facial electromyography and arousal measures) from 98 participants during three live concerts with a program of classical, romantic, and contemporary chamber music. One musical movement from the contemporar...
Source: Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity and the Arts - March 29, 2021 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

An exploratory study of historical representations of love in an art gallery exhibition.
This article reports on a mixed-methods research project using a short survey and brief exit interviews with visitors to consider how the visitor experience was characterized, the factors that influenced this experience, and how the exhibition content was perceived, with particular focus on the emotional content portrayed in the exhibition’s collection of artworks. Results of quantitative analyses indicate that familiarity with artworks and their historical period combine with motivations for attending the exhibition (such as being motivated by the exhibition’s theme) and have a clear positive influence on one’s emot...
Source: Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity and the Arts - March 25, 2021 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

An exploratory study of historical representations of love in an art gallery exhibition.
This article reports on a mixed-methods research project using a short survey and brief exit interviews with visitors to consider how the visitor experience was characterized, the factors that influenced this experience, and how the exhibition content was perceived, with particular focus on the emotional content portrayed in the exhibition’s collection of artworks. Results of quantitative analyses indicate that familiarity with artworks and their historical period combine with motivations for attending the exhibition (such as being motivated by the exhibition’s theme) and have a clear positive influence on one’s emot...
Source: Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity and the Arts - March 25, 2021 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Musical aesthetic sensitivity.
Empirical aesthetics has mainly focused on general and simple relations between stimulus features and aesthetic appreciation. Consequently, to explain why people differ so much in what they like and prefer continues to be a challenge for the field. One possible reason is that people differ in their aesthetic sensitivity, that is, the extent to which they weigh certain stimulus features. Studies have shown that people vary substantially in their aesthetic sensitivities to visual balance, contour, symmetry, and complexity and that this variation explains why people like different things. Our goal here was to extend this line...
Source: Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity and the Arts - March 18, 2021 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Eyelight enhances perceived emotional responses to cinema.
Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts, Vol 16(3), Aug 2022, 389-399; doi:10.1037/aca0000383Eyelight, in the eyes of a human portrayed on film, is a cinematographic means to augment the vividness of expressed emotions. This is used by both cinematographers and still photographers, and it is also expressed in Anglo-Saxon, Arabic, and Japanese literatures. Here, the effect of using eyelight in the cornea of the human eye on film is examined by eye-tracking individuals on a Swedish university campus, in order to study their perceptual responses to film characters with, or without, a glimpse of light in their eyes....
Source: Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity and the Arts - February 25, 2021 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Eyelight enhances perceived emotional responses to cinema.
Eyelight, in the eyes of a human portrayed on film, is a cinematographic means to augment the vividness of expressed emotions. This is used by both cinematographers and still photographers, and it is also expressed in Anglo-Saxon, Arabic, and Japanese literatures. Here, the effect of using eyelight in the cornea of the human eye on film is examined by eye-tracking individuals on a Swedish university campus, in order to study their perceptual responses to film characters with, or without, a glimpse of light in their eyes. The participants’ perceived capacity to discern the emotional states of the film characters was also ...
Source: Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity and the Arts - February 25, 2021 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Editorial, February 2021.
Welcome to a new year and a new issue of Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts. We hope this issue finds you and your families safe and well. Throughout the difficulties of 2020, music, dance, writing, theatre, film, art, and creative pursuits have brought many a sense of joy, peace, and connection. We hope this continues in 2021 and beyond. In this issue, we again bring you articles across aesthetics, creativity, and arts as varied as responses to activist art, workplace idea diversity, and the benefits of drawing, with our new extended page count for even more research. We begin this issue with Trawinki et a...
Source: Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity and the Arts - February 22, 2021 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research

Temporal-and orientation-based properties of the relationship between imagination-and observation-based face drawings.
This article reports studies that aim to determine the temporal- and orientation-based properties of this predictive relationship. In 3 studies, participants created an imagination-based face drawing followed by creating observation-based face drawings. Drawings were measured based on how spatial relationships between features were depicted. In Study 1, observation-based drawings were produced approximately 1.5 months after producing imagination-based drawings. We observed significant and positive correlations between the two types of drawings with respect to how spatial relationships between features were depicted, indica...
Source: Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity and the Arts - February 18, 2021 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research