Across many cultures, both men and women rate female faces as more attractive, and women exhibit this preference even more ...

Researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics (MPIEA) in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, have investigated how the combination of music and images influences the aesthetic ...

Edward Vessel, a research associate at the Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics who was involved with this study, explains that this was expected: “We don’t just passively perceive ...

The Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics investigates why and how people create art and how they perform, experience, and evaluate it. The Institute’s focus is on music, but we also engage ...

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 ...

27.04.2021 13:02 What is Empirical Aesthetics? Ina Wittmann Presse- und Öffentlichkeitsarbeit Max-Planck-Institut für empirische Ästhetik. New Journal Article Surveys the Field of the Science ...

A new study by New York University and the Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics shows that vivid pictorial language has the greatest influence on the aesthetic appeal of poetry. The ...

A research team from the Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics (MPIEA) in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, has devoted itself to studying this convergence in a series of three cumulative studies.

Researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics (MPIEA) in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, have developed a questionnaire to assess the musicality of 3- to 10-year-olds.

Who benefits from online art viewing, and how: The role of pleasure, meaningfulness, and trait aesthetic responsiveness in computer-based art interventions for well-being.

A few years ago I had the pleasure of visiting the Empirical Visual Aesthetics (EVA) lab at the University of Vienna, which is approximately one mile away from the Kunsthistorisches Museum. The ...

Such activities have been the traditional focus of the philosophy of aesthetics and its empirical study in the past century. However, anything can be an “aesthetic” experience in principle.