The Nature and Growth of Aesthetic Fluency

By Lisa F. Smith, Jeffrey K. Smith. 2006

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Do People Prefer Curved Objects? Angularity, Expertise, and Aesthetic Preference (2009, background): “Expertise in the arts—a term we’ll use to capture artistic training, education, and aesthetic fluency—is receiving more attention in empirical studies of art and creativity (Locher, 2007; Smith & Smith, 2006).”
Interested Experts, Confused Novices: Art Expertise and the Knowledge Emotions (2013, methodology): “Afterward, people completed demographic measures and the aesthetic fluency scale (Smith & Smith, 2006), which was used to measure variation in art expertise.”
Shivers and Timbres (2011, background): “…related to music they had taken so far in college, how many hours per day they spent listening to music, how important music was to them, how often they attended concerts (an ordinal outcome), and their knowledge related to the arts (measured with the aesthetic fluency scale; Smith & Smith, 2006).”
A snapshot of creativity: Evaluating a quick and simple method for assessing divergent thinking (2009, methodology): “Although new, this scale has performed well in several studies (Silvia, 2007, Silvia and Barona, 2009 and Smith and Smith, 2006).”
On personality and piloerection: Individual differences in aesthetic chills and other unusual aesthetic experiences. (2011, background): “Beyond personality, the only consistent predictor was aesthetic fluency, the self-report scale of knowledge about the arts ( Smith & Smith, 2006).”