“…Openness to experience, more than any other personality trait, is linked to aesthetic appreciation and cognition (DeYoung, 2015). People higher in openness to experience tend to know more about art (Atari, Afhami, & Mohammadi-Zarghan, 2020), make different interest-confusion appraisals (Fayn et al, 2019;Silvia, 2010), appreciate AESTHETIC COGNITIVISM REVIEW 21 compositional attributes (Clemente et al, 2021), and are more likely to have profound experiences (e.g., awe, wonder, curiosity;Fayn, MacCann, Tiliopoulos, & Silvia, 2015;Pelowski, Markey et al, 2017;Silvia, Fayn, Nusbaum, & Beaty, 2015).…”