Part I. Concepts, Theories and Methods: 1. Introduction by the editors Jeffrey K. Smith and Pablo P. L. Tinio; 2. Empirical aesthetics: hindsight and foresight Oshin Vartanian; 3. Philosophy of art and empirical aesthetics: resistance and rapprochement William P. Seeley; 4. Theoretical foundations for an empirical aesthetics Gerald C. Cupchik; 5. Aesthetics assessment Aaron Kozbelt and James C. Kaufman; Part II. Perspectives and Approaches to Art and Aesthetics: 6. Beyond perception: information processing approaches to art appreciation Helmut Leder; 7. Psychodynamics and the arts Pavel Machotka; 8. Evolutionary approaches to art and aesthetics Marcos Nadal and Gerardo Gómez-Puerto; 9. The walls do speak: psychological aesthetics and the museum experience Pablo P. L. Tinio, Jeffrey K. Smith and Lisa F. Smith; Part III. Objects and Media: 10. Empirical investigation of the elements of composition in paintings: a painting as stimulus Paul J. Locher; 11. 'Mute, motionless, variegated rectangles': aesthetics and photography I. C. McManus and Katharina Stöver; 12. Aesthetic responses to design: a battle of impulses Paul Hekkert; 13. From music perception to an integrative framework for the psychology of aesthetics Stefan Koelsch; 14. Theater and dance: another pathway to understanding human nature Thalia R. Goldstein and Rebecca Yasskin; 15. Arts education, academic achievement and cognitive ability Swathi Swaminathan and E. Glenn Schellenberg; 16. Aesthetics and the built environment: no painting or musical piece can compare Andréa Livi Smith; 17. Mirror, mirror on the wall, who's the fairest one of all? Influencing factors and effects of facial attractiveness Gernot Gerger and Helmut Leder; 18. An aesthetics of literary fiction David Carr; Part IV. Contemporary Issues and Debates: 19. Neuroaesthetics: descriptive and experimental approaches Anjan Chatterjee; 20. How emotions shape aesthetic experiences Stefano Mastandrea; 21. Unusual aesthetic states Emily C. Nusbaum and Paul J. Silvia; 22. Personality and aesthetic experiences Viren Swami and Adrian Furnham; 23. Hokusai and Fuji: cognition, convention and pictorial invention in Japanese pictorial arts David Bell; Part V. Pulling it All Together: 24. And all that jazz: rigour and relevance in the psychology of aesthetics and the arts Pablo P. L. Tinio and Jeffrey K. Smith.

'This book is a significant contribution to furthering our understanding about the importance and value of aesthetics within different art forms and contexts. It has cross-disciplinary appeal and helps to promote both theoretical development and applied research, while opening the study of aesthetics to a broader audience.' Paul M. Camic, Salomons Centre for Applied Psychology, Canterbury Christ Church University, Kent