Cross-cultural empirical aesthetics seeks to determine whether the psychological processes
underlying aesthetic preference are universal. Here we provide a critical review of the field's …

This paper reviews the research ideas around consumer response to product design. From
the product side, we discuss the most significant design features preferred by average …

Being interested in art and having knowledge about art are arguably central dimensions in
art experience and two of the most important individual differences when assessing how …

Aesthetic sensitivity has been defined as the ability to recognize and appreciate beauty and
compositional excellence, and to judge artistic merit according to standards of aesthetic …

The features of objects have a strong influence on how we evaluate, judge, approach, and
behave toward them. People generally prefer complex, symmetric, balanced and curved …

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 …

Cultural innovations, such as tools and other technical articles useful for survival, imply that
creativity is an outcome of evolution. However, the existence of purely ornamental items …

Abstract Since Eysenck's (1940) discovery of the general factor of visual aesthetic judgments–
which he coined “T”(for good Taste)–attempts to build a robust measure for it have been …

Aesthetic sensitivity is a core idea in empirical aesthetics, which refers to the study of the
causes of individual variation in aesthetic appreciation. Throughout the history of the …

Based on the multivariate approach, a set of cognitive, conative and emotional
characteristics can be identified as the psychological basis of creativity. These …