Neuroaesthetics is an emerging discipline within cognitive neuroscience that is concerned
with understanding the biological bases of aesthetic experiences. These experiences …

Aesthetic evaluations are appraisals that influence choices in important domains of human
activity, including mate selection, consumer behavior, art appreciation, and possibly even …

Why are negative emotions so central in art reception far beyond tragedy? Revisiting
classical aesthetics in the light of recent psychological research, we present a novel model …

Why do some people like negative, or even disgusting and provocative artworks? Art
expertise, believed to influence the interplay among cognitive and emotional processing …

There is a stable relationship between the Openness/Intellect domain of personality and
aesthetic engagement. However, neither of these are simple constructs and while the …

The fields of creativity and aesthetics remain relatively separate in spite of the great
advances made in the psychology of the arts over the past century. This divide has limited …

In the arts emotionally negative objects sometimes can be positively judged. Defining an
object as art possibly yields specific changes in how perceivers emotionally experience and …

What is the role of expertise in evaluating creative products? Novices and experts do not
assess creativity similarly, indicating domain-specific knowledge's role in judging creativity …

Since the advent of the concept of empathy in the scientific literature, it has been
hypothesized, although not necessarily empirically verified, that empathic processes are …

In empirical aesthetics, choosing stimuli, especially artworks, is a persistent challenge.
Artworks differ largely in terms of style, complexity, formal features, and valence, as well as …