Pub Date : 2025-08-20DOI: 10.1177/02762374251368710
Sami Abuhamdeh, Aaron Kozbelt
The relationship between age and musical creativity is not well understood, especially within the jazz idiom. In this study, ratings of 17,416 jazz albums recorded by 921 artists, sourced from a popular music review website, were analyzed. Creativity was operationalized in two different ways: 1) as hit ratios (the proportion of albums that received the critics’ highest rating), and 2) as album ratings (based on the unmodified 9-point scale used by the critics). Results from generalized additive mixed models (GAMMs) indicated that hit ratios peaked sharply around the age of 28 before rapidly declining. In contrast, album rating increased with age, with average ratings higher when artists were in their 60s and 70s than during their earlier years. Follow-up analyses indicated that this trend could be attributed to a reduced number of “inferior” albums—those with below-average ratings—among older artists. Implications for lifespan creativity and avenues for future research are discussed.
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Pub Date : 2025-08-06DOI: 10.1177/02762374251365160
Emily Gernandt, Elke B. Lange, Julia Merrill
Aesthetic experiences arise through interaction with sensory objects. These experiences are shaped into aesthetic judgments using verbal concepts. We explored this process in music by surveying 804 participants who described their favorite music using adjectives, resulting in 94 semantic fields based on 7,388 responses and 1,786 unique terms. Using the Cognitive Salience Index (CSI), we assessed the prominence of these terms, considering frequency, order, and sample size. The results reflect individual preferences rather than objective criteria, emphasizing personal perspectives on aesthetic appreciation. Prominent terms were mainly related to mood and emotions, highlighting the role of emotional engagement in musical experiences. Descriptions also included sound characteristics and style-specific terminology, illustrating how stylistic features influence aesthetic judgments. In contrast, aesthetic terms—such as “beautiful”—were less salient, likely due to the personal framing of the task. This study helps explain how people derive aesthetic value from music by linking personal experiences with structured verbal descriptions.
{"title":"What Elevates Music to a ‘Favorite’? On the Aesthetics of Music from the Perspective of Musical Taste","authors":"Emily Gernandt, Elke B. Lange, Julia Merrill","doi":"10.1177/02762374251365160","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/02762374251365160","url":null,"abstract":"Aesthetic experiences arise through interaction with sensory objects. These experiences are shaped into aesthetic judgments using verbal concepts. We explored this process in music by surveying 804 participants who described their favorite music using adjectives, resulting in 94 semantic fields based on 7,388 responses and 1,786 unique terms. Using the Cognitive Salience Index (CSI), we assessed the prominence of these terms, considering frequency, order, and sample size. The results reflect individual preferences rather than objective criteria, emphasizing personal perspectives on aesthetic appreciation. Prominent terms were mainly related to mood and emotions, highlighting the role of emotional engagement in musical experiences. Descriptions also included sound characteristics and style-specific terminology, illustrating how stylistic features influence aesthetic judgments. In contrast, aesthetic terms—such as “beautiful”—were less salient, likely due to the personal framing of the task. This study helps explain how people derive aesthetic value from music by linking personal experiences with structured verbal descriptions.","PeriodicalId":45870,"journal":{"name":"Empirical Studies of the Arts","volume":"6 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2025-08-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144787709","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2025-07-28DOI: 10.1177/02762374251360129
Oliver Jacobs, Farid Pazhoohi, Grayson Mullen, Alan Kingstone
The evaluation of AI-generated art has seen increased interest after widespread access to AI-generated art (e.g., DALL-E or Stable Diffusion). While previous studies have suggested that there are preferences for human-generated art, the research remains far from robust with numerous contradictory findings. One potential reason for this discrepancy is differing experimental designs employing comparative or non-comparative methods. To shed light on this problem, two experiments were conducted: one using a Likert scale (N = 250) and another using a 2-alternative forced choice design (N = 102). Our conflicting results between the two designs suggest that traditional Likert-based art appraisals in non-comparative formats may not be sensitive enough to reliably detect preferences that a forced-choice task can reveal. While AI-generated art continues to become more mainstream, people tend to prefer human art in terms of their liking and valuation appraisals when measured in comparative designs that better approximate real-world interaction with art.
{"title":"Comparative Designs Reveal Preferences for Human-Generated Rather Than AI-Generated art","authors":"Oliver Jacobs, Farid Pazhoohi, Grayson Mullen, Alan Kingstone","doi":"10.1177/02762374251360129","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/02762374251360129","url":null,"abstract":"The evaluation of AI-generated art has seen increased interest after widespread access to AI-generated art (e.g., DALL-E or Stable Diffusion). While previous studies have suggested that there are preferences for human-generated art, the research remains far from robust with numerous contradictory findings. One potential reason for this discrepancy is differing experimental designs employing comparative or non-comparative methods. To shed light on this problem, two experiments were conducted: one using a Likert scale (N = 250) and another using a 2-alternative forced choice design (N = 102). Our conflicting results between the two designs suggest that traditional Likert-based art appraisals in non-comparative formats may not be sensitive enough to reliably detect preferences that a forced-choice task can reveal. While AI-generated art continues to become more mainstream, people tend to prefer human art in terms of their liking and valuation appraisals when measured in comparative designs that better approximate real-world interaction with art.","PeriodicalId":45870,"journal":{"name":"Empirical Studies of the Arts","volume":"37 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2025-07-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144715278","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2025-07-24DOI: 10.1177/02762374251357172
Taisia Pimenova, Valeria Kolycheva, Alexander Semenov, Dmitry Grigoriev
Online reviews have become a significant factor in determining prices, complementing the intrinsic qualities of goods. In the art market, these reviews elevate the interaction between artists and connoisseurs, but the diverse levels of expertise and influence among participants demand a more detailed approach. This study investigates the impact of expert opinions and public sentiment on painting prices, using a hedonic regression model with artist-specific fixed effects. Given the common practice of buying art for investment in the secondary market, we also analyze the relationship between review sentiment and investment intentions. Based on a dataset of 18,100 sold paintings, we find that negative sentiment from all sources and positive public sentiment significantly influence prices. Moderation analysis shows heightened sensitivity to negative opinions from experts and media reports. This research contributes to understanding the interaction between social media and the art market, as well as key price determinants for artworks.
{"title":"The Influence of News, Expert and Public Opinion on Painting Prices: An Empirical Analysis","authors":"Taisia Pimenova, Valeria Kolycheva, Alexander Semenov, Dmitry Grigoriev","doi":"10.1177/02762374251357172","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/02762374251357172","url":null,"abstract":"Online reviews have become a significant factor in determining prices, complementing the intrinsic qualities of goods. In the art market, these reviews elevate the interaction between artists and connoisseurs, but the diverse levels of expertise and influence among participants demand a more detailed approach. This study investigates the impact of expert opinions and public sentiment on painting prices, using a hedonic regression model with artist-specific fixed effects. Given the common practice of buying art for investment in the secondary market, we also analyze the relationship between review sentiment and investment intentions. Based on a dataset of 18,100 sold paintings, we find that negative sentiment from all sources and positive public sentiment significantly influence prices. Moderation analysis shows heightened sensitivity to negative opinions from experts and media reports. This research contributes to understanding the interaction between social media and the art market, as well as key price determinants for artworks.","PeriodicalId":45870,"journal":{"name":"Empirical Studies of the Arts","volume":"117 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2025-07-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144701985","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2025-07-21DOI: 10.1177/02762374251360128
María-Ángeles Martínez, David Orden, Encarnación Fernández-Fernández
The empirical study of literary experiences affords the opportunity to investigate the extent to which the interpretations of literary critics may coincide with the meaning construction operations of flesh-and-blood readers. The present study explores the analytical potential of a statistics-based Check-all-that-apply (CATA) methodology, traditionally used in consumer research, in the study of real reader response. To this purpose, an online questionnaire designed along CATA lines is used to investigate the emergence of storyworld possible selves during narrative interaction with the graphic short story “City” (Wasco, 2015). The findings are compared to those of two previous studies of this short story, one literary (Herman & Vervaeck, 2019) and the other empirical (Martínez & Herman, 2020), and suggest that a CATA methodology can enlighten aspects of readerly response not previously addressed, particularly regarding the idiosyncratic construction of the main character in ways relevant to individual readers’ construction of themselves.
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Pub Date : 2025-07-14DOI: 10.1177/02762374251349376
Matthew Pelowski, Eleonora Marengo, Katherine N. Cotter, Corinna Kühnapfel, Klaus Speidel, Joerg Fingerhut
We offer first, exploratory evidence into a design element employed by many artists and curators to maximize impacts of art interventions towards attitude change—the anticipation and design for specific emotional experiences. In two exhibitions involving refugee acceptance (Study 1, N = 41) and climate awareness (Study 2, N = 49), we collected curator/artist-provided sets of specific intended emotions, matched to viewer reports and to changes in attitude measures via a pre-post design. In both studies, viewers felt more intended emotions and were proficient at identifying how they were intended to feel with, in Study 1, significant relation between the former and agreement that the exhibition had caused one to reflect. In Study 2, feeling more intended emotions, as set by the curator but not the artist, correlated to changes in nature connectedness. However, feeling more emotions in general, regardless of intentions, was consistently the strongest driver of effects, raising new implications for emotion-, arts-based-, and intervention-research.
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Pub Date : 2025-07-11DOI: 10.1177/02762374251356955
Jia-Yu Song, Won-Ho Choi, Ru Li
Dreamcore is a digital aesthetic with familiar-yet-strange and often unsettling elements linked to dreams. Despite its rapid online popularity, its psychological appeal remains unexplored. This study examined the relationship between trait nostalgia (TN) and Dreamcore image liking (DIL) in 449 adults aged 18–40. TN was assessed using the Southampton Nostalgia Scale and the Personal Inventory of Nostalgic Experiences, while DIL was measured via ratings of 18 selected Dreamcore images. Factor analyses suggested TN as a unidimensional construct, whereas DIL comprised two factors: darker/eerie (DIL-F1) and warmer/comforting (DIL-F2) imagery. Structural equation modeling showed that TN was positively associated with both dimensions of DIL, with no significant differences in effect size. The findings provide preliminary evidence that nostalgia may contribute to Dreamcore aesthetic engagement, reflecting psychological needs during specific periods and offering exploratory insights into individual differences in aesthetic preferences and implications for cultural and media research.
{"title":"What Makes People Like Dreamcore Aesthetics? the Role of Trait Nostalgia in Preferences for Dreamcore Imagery","authors":"Jia-Yu Song, Won-Ho Choi, Ru Li","doi":"10.1177/02762374251356955","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/02762374251356955","url":null,"abstract":"Dreamcore is a digital aesthetic with familiar-yet-strange and often unsettling elements linked to dreams. Despite its rapid online popularity, its psychological appeal remains unexplored. This study examined the relationship between trait nostalgia (TN) and Dreamcore image liking (DIL) in 449 adults aged 18–40. TN was assessed using the Southampton Nostalgia Scale and the Personal Inventory of Nostalgic Experiences, while DIL was measured via ratings of 18 selected Dreamcore images. Factor analyses suggested TN as a unidimensional construct, whereas DIL comprised two factors: darker/eerie (DIL-F1) and warmer/comforting (DIL-F2) imagery. Structural equation modeling showed that TN was positively associated with both dimensions of DIL, with no significant differences in effect size. The findings provide preliminary evidence that nostalgia may contribute to Dreamcore aesthetic engagement, reflecting psychological needs during specific periods and offering exploratory insights into individual differences in aesthetic preferences and implications for cultural and media research.","PeriodicalId":45870,"journal":{"name":"Empirical Studies of the Arts","volume":"21 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2025-07-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144603062","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2025-07-07DOI: 10.1177/02762374251353671
Rui Xu, Yen Hsu, Xinyan Wang
AI artwork not only presents uniqueness in terms of artistry but also triggers deep emotional resonance within audiences. There is an urgent need for indepth research to examine the potential benefits and limitations of AI in art creation. This study investigates the issues mentioned above through a twopart experiment. Study 1 conducted an Art Turing test, selecting 10 works created by human artists representing different styles and 10 works generated by the AI creation tool Midjourney. The two sets of works were scored, and their differences were compared. Study 2 involved a 2 × 2 experiment with independent variables of “passing the Turing test” (pass vs fail) and “being informed about the works that passed the Art Turing test” (informed vs. uninformed). The dependent variable was the level of anxiety toward AI. The findings suggest that anxiety regarding AI artwork stems primarily from the quality of the pieces. When AI creates works of art that rival or surpass those of human artists, anxiety is further heightened due to the potential impact on anthropocentric thinking. This study provides empirical insight and a scientific basis for exploring AI in art creation.
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Pub Date : 2025-06-27DOI: 10.1177/02762374251353670
Xiao Wang, Yannan Zhang
Previous studies have shown that major key music paired with positive emotional images is typically associated with positive emotions, while minor key music paired with negative images tends to be linked to sadness. However, there is still a lack of research on the integrative mechanisms underlying cross-modal emotion transference between music and image. The present study employed a 2 (image: positive vs. negative) × 2 (music: major vs. minor) within-subjects design to investigate how these combinations influence aesthetic preferences for neutral stimuli. The findings revealed the following: (1) Under minor key music, negative emotional images significantly enhanced the aesthetic evaluation of neutral stimuli compared to positive emotional images. This reflects an emotion-congruent effect, facilitating emotion assimilation–contrast processes and enhancing aesthetic experience. (2) Under positive emotional images, major key music significantly increased the aesthetic appraisal of neutral stimuli relative to minor key music, again promoting assimilation–contrast effects and aesthetic enhancement. (3) Under negative emotional images, there was no significant difference in aesthetic evaluation of neutral stimuli between major and minor key music, possibly because the negative images dominated the emotional processing, marginalizing the influence of music. (4) Under major key music, no significant difference in aesthetic evaluation of neutral stimuli was observed between positive and negative emotional images, which may suggest that, within the emotional framework of major key music, the emotional impact of positive and negative images converged and thus failed to significantly alter aesthetic preferences. These findings reveal boundary conditions for the emotion assimilation–contrast effect in the context of cross-modal emotion transference. From an applied perspective, musical mode and emotional image can serve as effective modulators in the perception and aesthetic evaluation of visual information.
{"title":"The Impact of Cross-Sensory Interaction Between Emotional Images and Musical Modes on the Aesthetic Evaluation of Neutral Stimuli","authors":"Xiao Wang, Yannan Zhang","doi":"10.1177/02762374251353670","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/02762374251353670","url":null,"abstract":"Previous studies have shown that major key music paired with positive emotional images is typically associated with positive emotions, while minor key music paired with negative images tends to be linked to sadness. However, there is still a lack of research on the integrative mechanisms underlying cross-modal emotion transference between music and image. The present study employed a 2 (image: positive vs. negative) × 2 (music: major vs. minor) within-subjects design to investigate how these combinations influence aesthetic preferences for neutral stimuli. The findings revealed the following: (1) Under minor key music, negative emotional images significantly enhanced the aesthetic evaluation of neutral stimuli compared to positive emotional images. This reflects an emotion-congruent effect, facilitating emotion assimilation–contrast processes and enhancing aesthetic experience. (2) Under positive emotional images, major key music significantly increased the aesthetic appraisal of neutral stimuli relative to minor key music, again promoting assimilation–contrast effects and aesthetic enhancement. (3) Under negative emotional images, there was no significant difference in aesthetic evaluation of neutral stimuli between major and minor key music, possibly because the negative images dominated the emotional processing, marginalizing the influence of music. (4) Under major key music, no significant difference in aesthetic evaluation of neutral stimuli was observed between positive and negative emotional images, which may suggest that, within the emotional framework of major key music, the emotional impact of positive and negative images converged and thus failed to significantly alter aesthetic preferences. These findings reveal boundary conditions for the emotion assimilation–contrast effect in the context of cross-modal emotion transference. From an applied perspective, musical mode and emotional image can serve as effective modulators in the perception and aesthetic evaluation of visual information.","PeriodicalId":45870,"journal":{"name":"Empirical Studies of the Arts","volume":"15 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2025-06-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144513276","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2025-06-20DOI: 10.1177/02762374251351832
Chao Jia, Jiao Zhang
In the context of deepening the teaching strategy of emotional expression in dance, improving the emotional regulation ability of dance majors and promoting their emotional expression is a common issue in the process of realizing the goal of “educating people through dance”. In order to explore the mechanism of emotion regulation on emotion expression in dance, a questionnaire survey was conducted among 872 dance majors in seven universities. The results showed that emotion regulation in dance had a significant positive predictive effect on emotional expression, and that both performance self-confidence and learning engagement had significant independent and chain mediation effects, teacher support positively moderated the relationship between emotion regulation in dance and learning engagement; and both teacher support and peer support positively moderated the relationship between emotion regulation in dance and performance self-confidence.
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