AReA:

Aesthetic Responsiveness Assessment

The AReA is a short (14-item) questionnaire for assessing how responsive a person is to aesthetic experiences, such as with visual arts, music, dance and performance.

  • Get the Tool.

    English: [Word] [PDF]

    German: [Word] [PDF]

    Farsi: [Word] [PDF]

    Korean: Coming soon!

  • Read the Papers.

    Schlotz, W., Wallot, S. Omigie, D., Masucci, M.D., Hoelzmann, S.C., Vessel, E.A. (2020). The Aesthetic Responsiveness Assessment (AReA): A screening tool to assess individual differences in responsiveness to art in English and German. Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts. 15(4), 682–696. https://doi.org/10.1037/aca0000348

    Golbabaei, S., Christensen, J.F., Vessel, E.A., Kazemian, N., Borhani, K. (2022). The Aesthetic Responsiveness Assessment (AReA) in Farsi Language: A scale validation and cultural adaptation study. Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts. https://doi.org/10.1037/aca0000532

    Silvia, P. J., Rodriguez-Boerwinkle, R. M., Awa, K. N., Zabelina, D. L., & Christensen, A. P. (2025). Evaluating the Structure of the Aesthetic Responsiveness Assessment (AReA) with Bootstrap Exploratory Graph Analysis. Empirical Studies of the Arts, 43(1), 550-564. https://doi.org/10.1177/02762374241259935

  • Get Involved.

    Interested in creating and validating a translation of the AReA in a new language? Want to help create the next version of the AReA?

    Contact evessel[at]ccny[dot]cuny[dot]edu

    Current efforts underway:

    • Italian

    • Korean

    • Spanish

    • Turkish

    • Chinese

    • Hungarian

Image Credit: Detail from Gustav Klimt  (1862–1918) Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I