''Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts'' is a quarterly peer-reviewed

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published by the

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. The journal covers research on the

psychology Psychology is the scientific study of mind and behavior. Psychology includes the study of conscious and unconscious phenomena, including feelings and thoughts. It is an academic discipline of immense scope, crossing the boundaries between ...

of the production and appreciation of

the arts The arts are a very wide range of human practices of creative expression, storytelling and cultural participation. They encompass multiple diverse and plural modes of thinking, doing and being, in an extremely broad range of media. Both ...

and all aspects of creative endeavor. The current

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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 Sciences Citation Index. According to the ''

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'', the journal has a 2020

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of 4.349.

References

External links

* {{Official website, http://www.apa.org/pubs/journals/aca/index.aspx Psychology of creativity journals American Psychological Association academic journals Quarterly journals English-language journals Publications established in 2007