📢New online first📢Wimmer and colleagues show that reading narrative rather than expository texts is associated with an aesthetic attitude, and both popular and literary fiction promote an aesthetic stance📚: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.11…

📢 Abstract submissions for IAEA are due this Sunday 5/15! Where do you think the study of aesthetics is (or should be) headed? Submissions from all fields/occupations welcome. #Aesthetics twitter please 🔄

The abstract submission deadline will be extended to Friday

Article now online: Experiences of Ugliness in Nature and Urban environments. Rather than being the endpoint on an aesthetic scale culminating w beauty, ugliness seems to be experienced as an independent aesthetic experience w its own processing streams journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/02…

📢New online first📢Gotthardt and colleagues show that participation in cultural activities during the covid-19 pandemic related to wellbeing benefits including perceived autonomy and relatedness🧑‍🤝‍🧑: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.11…

We are thrilled to announce a killer lineup for IAEA 2022! See expanded schedule here: iaeaphilly2022.com/program

📢New online first📢Using network modelling Dr. Katherine N. Cotter, PhD and colleagues find that museum professionals want more emphasis on visitor wellbeing as an outcome of museum visits 🎨journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.11…

📢New online first📢Gazit and colleagues explore the therapeutic processes at play in online reading groups 📚journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.11…

📢New online first📢@jcfschaap and colleagues demonstrate how gender and perceived attractiveness of electronic dance music artists affect how their music is evaluated 🎧 journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.11…

Finally! After 4 years, the largest in-person gathering of people interested in scientific aesthetics. This week. Philly! iaeaphilly2022.com/about-the-cong…

So proud of our Empirical Studies of the Arts publication where we explored the preference structure of #fashion. There are individual differences in the preference for certain clothes. Thank you Nancy Etcoff and Emmanuel for being such amazing collaborators! London College of Fashion University of the Arts London Harvard Medical School Harvard University

My first first-author paper has been published in Empirical Studies of the Arts! We assessed whether the ways viewers move in front of art, where they stand, how they approach or shift positions relate to art experience. (1/8) doi.org/10.1177/027623… #empiricalaesthetics #embodiedaesthetics

Trending in #Humanities: ooir.org/index.php?fiel… 1) Earnings & inequality in the creative industries (Cultural Trends Journal) 2) Eye Tracking, Emotion & Evaluations in Galleries (Empirical Studies of the Arts) 3) Australia’s statue wars (Patterns of Prejudice (now @pop-jrnl.bsky.social)) 4) Fixing the Gaze in Dante’s Commedia

The July 2023 issue of Empirical Studies of the Arts is here 🥳 featuring research on robots, tears, fashion, auctions and more! journals.sagepub.com/toc/arta/41/2

Thank you for featuring our paper on the relationship between emotional & evaluation and body movement, mobile eye-tracking in front of art published in Empirical Studies of the Arts! Read it here: doi.org/10.1177/027623… #empiricalaesthetics #embodiment #artexperience

📢new online first📢Testing the universality of symmetry preference in a Japanese sample, from the Eva_Lab: journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.117…

📢New online first📢Kuntz & Vick explore inequalities in gender representation in the art world ♀️ journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.117…

It was a pleasure to talk at #VSAC2023 about our Empirical Studies of the Arts publication. Thank you Gregor Hayn for the photographs and organisers Ben van Buren and Claus-Christian Carbon for accepting my talk. Thank you @SilvaSirimal and Nancy Etcoff for being such great collaborators! #fashion

📢New online first📢Specker and colleagues explore the interactive role of style, content and individual differences in art appreciation 🖼️ Eva_Lab journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.11…

📢New online first📢 Riestra-Camacho and colleagues investigate the efficacy of narrative bibliotherapy for disordered eating📚journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.117…