Research
I primarily conduct research on creativity and cognition in the arts. My work can be divided into visual art, classical music, and other domains. My research addresses questions like:
Visual art
What is the psychological basis of realistic drawing ability?
What cognitive and perceptual abilities distinguish artists from non-artists, and how can these be explained?
What kinds of problem solving strategies distinguish more creative artists from less creative artists?
To what extent can artists dynamically and reliably assess the quality of an emerging creative product?
How do artists and non-artists differ in aesthetic judgment criteria?
Classical music
How do composers’ lifespan creativity trajectories differ, and how can these be explained?
To what extent can great composers reliably evaluate the quality of their works?
How can the creativity of “one-hit wonders” be explained?
Other domains
How can cognitive-historical case studies inform the nature of creativity?
To what extent do Western and non-Western artistic traditions differ in lifespan creativity patterns?
How are humor production, humor comprehension, and humor appreciation psychometrically related? To what extent can humor and other forms of creativity be explained by Darwinian sexual selection?
Kozbelt, A. (in press-a). E. H. Gombrich on creativity: A cognitive-historical case study. Creativity Research Journal.
Kozbelt, A. (in press-b). Hierarchical linear modeling of creative artists’ problem solving behaviors. Journal of Creative Behavior.
Kozbelt, A. (in press-c). Performance time productivity and ‘cross-training’ estimates for 102 classical composers. Psychology of Music.
Kozbelt, A. (in press-d). One-hit wonders in classical music: Evidence and (partial) explanations for an early career peak. Creativity Research Journal.
Kozbelt, A., & Durmysheva, Y. (in press-a). Understanding creativity judgments of invented alien creatures: The role of invariants and other predictors. Journal of Creative Behavior.
Kozbelt, A., & Durmysheva, Y. (in press-b). Lifespan creativity in a non-Western artistic tradition: A study of Japanese ukiyo-e printmakers. International Journal of Aging and Human Development.
Kozbelt, A., & Nishioka, K. (in press). Humor comprehension, humor production, and insight: An exploratory study. Humor: International Journal of Humor Research.
Kozbelt, A., & Seeley, W. P. (in press). Integrating art historical, psychological, and neuroscientific explanations of artists’ advantages in drawing and perception. Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts.
Kaufman, S. B., Kozbelt, A., Bromley, M. L., & Miller, G. L. (in press). The role of creativity and humor ability in human mating. To appear in G. Geher and G. L. Miller (Eds.), Mating intelligence: Theoretical and empirical insights into intimate relationships. Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.
Kozbelt, A. (in press: to appear in 2007). A quantitative analysis of Beethoven as self-critic: Implications for psychological theories of musical creativity. Psychology of Music, 35, 147-172.
Kozbelt, A. (2006-a). Psychological implications of the history of realistic depiction: Ancient Greece, Renaissance Italy, and CGI. Leonardo, 39, 139-144.
Kozbelt, A. (2006-b). Dynamic evaluation of Matisse's 1935 'Large Reclining Nude.' Empirical Studies of the Arts 24, 119-137.
Kozbelt, A. (2005). Factors affecting aesthetic success and improvement in creativity: A case study of the musical genres of Mozart. Psychology of Music, 33, 235-255.
Kozbelt, A. (2004). Originality and technical skill as components of artistic quality. Empirical Studies of the Arts, 22, 157-170.
Seeley, W. P., & Kozbelt, A. (2004). A visuomotor skill model for artists' advantages in drawing, visual analysis, and form recognition. In J. P. Frois, P. Andrade, & J. F. Marques (Eds.), Art and science: Proceedings of the XVII Congress of the International Association of Empirical Aesthetics (pp. 645-648). Lisboa, Portugal: IAEA.
Kozbelt, A. (2004). Reexamining the equal-odds rule in classical composers. In J. P. Frois, P. Andrade, & J. F. Marques (Eds.), Art and science: Proceedings of the XVII Congress of the International Association of Empirical Aesthetics (pp. 540-543). Lisboa, Portugal: IAEA.
Kozbelt, A. (2002). Products and processes of artistic creation. Unpublished Ph.D. dissertation, The University of Chicago.
Kozbelt, A. (2001). Artists as experts in visual cognition. Visual Cognition, 8, 705-723.
