Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts


Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts is a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal published by the American Psychological Association. The journal covers research on the psychology of the production and appreciation of the arts and all aspects of creative endeavor. The current editors-in-chief are Roni Reiter-Palmon and Pablo Tinio. The founding co-editors of the journal were Jeffrey Smith, Lisa Smith, and James C. Kaufman.

Abstracting and indexing

The journal is abstracted and indexed in the Social Science Citation Index. The journal has a 5-Year Impact Factor of 3.153, ranking it 38th out of 85 journals in the category "Psychology, Experimental." The 2017 impact factor was 1.860.