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3 kwi 2019 · Empirical studies suggest that art improves health and well-being among individuals. However, how aesthetic appreciation affects our cognitive and emotional states to promote physical and psychological well-being is still unclear.
Special issue of the APA journal Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts, Vol. 5, No. 1, February 2011. Articles discuss creativity in the workplace, including problem solving; idea generation and evaluation; innovative behavior; and group and individual creativity.
1 kwi 2022 · Psychologists and neuroscientists are uncovering new details about what it means to be creative and how to nurture that skill. “Creativity is of incredible real-world value,” Kounios said. “The ultimate goal is to figure out how to enhance it in a systematic way.”
Art is a symbolic communicative system practiced only by humans, and argued to have become a fully practiced behavior at a time when early human social groups grew in size and complexity, and communication through language and art promoted cohesion and survival. Art is but one example where humans demonstrate the capacity for creativity.
1 sty 1984 · Research into cognition and affect, and social cognition promises possibilities for more integrated theories of the perception of art. The chapter demonstrates progress thus far in the new field of the cognitive psychology of art.
4 kwi 2019 · First, we examine evidence that arts promoting well-being involve art museums, healthcare settings, and education. Second, we review some neuroimaging studies addressing aesthetic experience...
research has focused exclusively on artistic creativity, with no such work on scientific creativity. However, artistic creativity has also implicated the executive, default, and salience networks (Vartanian, 2022). In a study of visual artists, for example, Ellamil et al. (2012)reported functional connectivity between default, exec-
