New Journal Article Surveys the Field of the Science of Aesthetics Aesthetic processing has a great impact on our everyday lives. It influences our choices regarding romantic partners, where we wish ...

Empirical psycho-aesthetics–an interdisciplinary field with a long tradition–is approached in this two-part article from two directions, in each case with several objectives. Part I, in this issue of ...

The more a poem evokes vivid sensory imagery, the more we like it. A new study by New York University and the Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics shows that vivid pictorial language has the ...

Iranian classical dance has mostly remained hidden from international audiences, as it has been practiced and developed mainly underground in Iran and the Iranian diaspora since the Islamic Revolution ...

Is it possible to decode how we feel from our movements? How can emotions be studied “from the outside” by using empirical methods? To answer these questions, a large international and ...

San Damiano Crucifix (replica) in Cathedral of St. Francis, Santa Fe, New Mexico Source: Photo by Chris Light, from Wikimedia Commons / CC BY-SA 3.0 We continue this series of comments on aesthetic ...

INHABIT’s 2022 Artists in Residence and Upcoming Cooperation with the Museum Angewandte Kunst The year 2022 promises an abundance of artistic highlights at the Max Planck Institute for Empirical ...

Research led by the Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics has confirmed that female faces are rated as more attractive than male faces across diverse cultures, ethnicities, and regardless of ...

Among the plantings in the interior courtyard of the Frankfurt Institute, a row of pink-coloured letters stand almost as tall as a person. The lettering seems to point rather insistently to exactly ...

The impact of poetic language has so far been measured primarily based on objective criteria such as verse and rhythm. However, aesthetic perception also includes subjective assessment. A team of ...