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Cotter, K. N., †Rodriguez-Boerwinkle, R. M., *Silver, S., *Hardy, M., *Putney, H., & Pawelski, J. O. (in press). Emotional experiences and flourishing during art museum visits: A latent class analysis. Journal of Happiness Studies. PDF
Cotter, K. N., Crone, D. L., †Rodriguez-Boerwinkle, R. M., Boerwinkle, M., Silvia, P. J., & Pawelski, J. O. (2022). Examining the flourishing impacts of repeated visits to a virtual art museum and the role of immersion. Behavioral Sciences, 12(12), 500. PDF
Specker, E., Cotter, K. N., & Kim, K. Y. (in press). The next step for the VAIAK: An item response theory approach. Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts.
Cotter, K. N., *Harrouche, M., †Rodriguez-Boerwinkle, R. M, †Boerwinkle, M., Silvia, P. J., & Pawelski, J. O. (in press). Virtual art visits: Examining the effects of slow looking on well-being. Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts.
Cotter, K. N., Crone, D. L., & Pawelski, J. O. (in press). Well-being aims of art museums: A survey of art museum professionals. Empirical Studies of the Arts. PDF
Rodriguez, R. M.†, Fekete, A.†, Silvia, P. J., & Cotter, K. N. (in press). The art of feeling different: Exploring the diversity of emotions experienced during an art museum visit. Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts. PDF
Cotter, K. N., †Rodriguez-Boerwinkle, R. M., Christensen, A. P., †Fekete, A., Smith, J. F., Smith, L. F., Tinio, P. P. L., & Silvia, P. J. (2023). Updating the aesthetic fluency scale: Revised and short forms for lab and field research in the arts. Plos One, 18(2), e0281547.
Cotter, K. N., Chen, D. F., Christensen, A. P., Kim, K. Y., & Silvia, P. J. (2023). Measuring art knowledge: Item response theory and differential item functioning analysis of the Aesthetic Fluency Scale. Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts, 17(3), 358-368. PDF
Cotter, K. N., †Fekete, A., & Silvia, P. J. (2022). Why do people visit art museums? Examining visitor motivations and visit outcomes. Empirical Studies of the Arts, 40(2), 275-295. PDF
Cotter, K. N. & Pawelski, J. O. (2022). Art museums as institutions for human flourishing. Journal of Positive Psychology, 17(2), 308-320. PDF
Pelowski, M., Hur, Y. J., Cotter, K. N., Ishizu, T., Christensen, A. P., Leder, H., & McManus, C. (2021). Quantifying the if, the what, and the when of the sublime: A survey and identification of incidence, emotions, triggers and distinct varieties within reports of personal sublime experience. Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts, 15(2), 216-240. PDF
Silvia, P. J., †Rodriguez, R. R., Cotter, K. N., & Christensen, A. P. (2021). Aesthetic preference for glossy materials: A replication and extension. Behavioral Sciences, 11(44). PDF
Silvia, P. J., Christensen, A. P., Cotter, K. N., *Jackson, T. A., *Galyean, C. B., *McCroskey, T. J., & *Rasheed, A. Z. (2018). Do people have a thing for bling? Examining aesthetic preferences for shiny objects. Empirical Studies of the Arts, 36(1), 101-113. PDF
Cotter, K. N., Silvia, P. J., Bertamini, M., Palumbo, L., & Vartanian, O. (2017). Curve appeal: Exploring individual differences in preference for curved versus angular objects. i-Perception, March-April, 1-17. PDF
Cotter, K. N. & Silvia, P. J. (2021). Mental control of musical imagery in the lab and everyday life: Combining behavioral and experience-sampling approaches. Psychomusicology: Music, Mind, and Brain, 31(2), 74-95. PDF
Cotter, K. N. & Silvia, P. J. (2020). Tuning the inner radio: The mental control of musical imagery in everyday environments. Psychology of Music, 48(6), 876-888. PDF
Cotter, K. N. & Silvia, P. J. (2020). Mental control of musical imagery: Comparing tonal and song stimuli. Psychomusicology: Music, Mind, and Brain, 30(3), 145-158. PDF
Cotter, K. N., Christensen, A. P., & SIlvia, P. J. (2019). Understanding inner music: A dimensional approach to musical imagery. Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts, 13(4), 489-503. PDF
Cotter, K. N. (2019). Mental control in musical imagery: A dual-component model. Frontiers in Psychology, 10(1904), 1-13. PDF
Cotter, K. N., *Prince, A. N., Christensen, A. P., & Silvia, P. J. (2019). Feeling like crying when listening to music: Exploring musical and contextual features. Empirical Studies of the Arts, 37(2), 119-137. PDF
Cotter, K. N., Silvia, P. J., & Fayn, K. (2018). What does feeling like crying to music feel like? Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts, 12(2), 216-227. PDF
Cotter, K. N., & Silvia, P. J. (2017). Measuring mental music: Comparing retrospective and experience sampling methods for assessing musical imagery. Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts, 11(3), 335-343. PDF
Cotter, K. N., Christensen, A. P., & Silvia, P. J. (2016). Musical minds: Personality, schizotypy, and involuntary musical imagery. Psychomusicology: Music, Mind, and Brain, 26(3), 220-225. PDF
Silvia, P. J., Cotter, K. N., & Christensen, A. P. (in press). Creative omnivores: An experience sampling study of the variety and diversity of everyday creative activities. Creativity Research Journal. PDF
Ivcevic, Z., Grossman, E. R., Cotter, K. N., & Nusbaum, E. (in press). Self-regulation of creativity: Toward measuring strategies of creative action. Creativity Research Journal. PDF
Benedek, M., Karstendiek, M., Ceh, S., Grabner, R., Krammer, G., Lebuda, I., Silvia, P. J., Cotter, K. N., Li, Y., Martskvishvilli, K., & Kaufman, J. C. (2021). Creativity myths: Prevalence and correlates of misconceptions on creativity. Personality and Individual Differences, 182, 111068. PDF
Silvia, P. J., Greengross, G., Cotter, K. N., Christensen, A. P., & Gredlein, J. M. (2021). If you're funny and you know it: Personality, gender, and people's ratings of their attempts at humor. Journal of Research in Personality, 104089. PDF
Silvia, P. J., Christensen, A. P., & Cotter, K. N. (2021). Right-wing authoritarians aren’t very funny: RWA, personality, and creative humor production. Personality and Individual Differences, 170, 110421. PDF
*Shin, H., Cotter, K. N., Christensen, A. P., & Silvia, P. J. (2020). Creative fixation is no laughing matter: The effects of funny and unfunny examples on humor production. The Journal of Creative Behavior, 54(2), 487-494. PDF
Cotter, K. N., Ivcevic, Z., & Moeller, J. (2020). Person-oriented profiles of originality and fluency in divergent thinking responses. Journal of Research in Personality, 86. PDF
Cotter, K. N. & Silvia, P. J. (2019). Ecological assessment in research of aesthetics, creativity, and the arts: Basic concepts, common questions, and gentle warnings. Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts, 13(2), 211-217. PDF
Christensen, A. P., Cotter, K. N., & Silvia, P. J. (2019). Reopening openness to experience: A network analysis of four openness to experience inventories. Journal of Personality Assessment, 101(6), 574-588. PDF
Christensen, A. P., Kennett, Y. N., Cotter, K. N., Beaty, R. E., & Silvia, P. J. (2018). Remotely close associations: Openness to experience and semantic memory structure. European Journal of Personality, 32(4), 480-492. PDF
Silvia, P. J., Christensen, A. P., & Cotter, K. N. (2016). Commentary: The development of creativity--ability, motivation, and potential. New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development, 151, 111-119. PDF
Cotter, K. N., Pretz, J. E., & Kaufman, J. C. (2016). Applicants' extracurricular involvement predicts creativity better than traditional admissions factors. Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts, 10(1), 2-13. PDF
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†Barry, G., Cotter, K. N., & Pawelski, J. O. (in press). The ability of art museums to enhance human flourishing. To appear in B. Redmond-Jones (Ed.), Welcoming museum visitors with unapparent disabilities. Rowman & Littlefield.
Cotter, K. N. (2023). Assessing creativity and affect in everyday environments: Experience-sampling and daily diary methods. In Z. Ivcevic, J. D. Hoffman, and J. C. Kaufman (Eds.), Cambridge Handbook of Creativity and Emotions. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Cotter, K. N., Beghetto, R. A., & Kaufman, J. C. (2022). Creativity in the classroom: Advice for best practices. In T. Lubart, M. Botella, X. Caroff, C. Mouchiroud, J. Nelson, and F. Zenasni (Eds.), Homo Creativus: The 7 C’s of human creativity. New York: Springer.
Silvia, P. J. & Cotter, K. N. (2022). Aesthetic experience in everyday environments. In M. Nadal and O. Vartanian (Eds.) The Oxford Handbook of Empirical Aesthetics. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Cotter, K. N., Christensen, A. P., & Silvia, P. J. (2019). Creativity's role in everyday life. In J. C. Kaufman and R. J. Sternberg (Eds.), Cambridge Handbook of Creativity (2nd edition). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Silvia, P. J., Cotter, K. N., & Christensen, A. P. (2017). The creative self in context: Experience sampling and the ecology of everyday creativity. In M. Karwowski & J. C. Kaufman (Eds.), Creative self: Effect of beliefs, self-efficacy, mindset, and identity.