Processing fluency, processing style, and aesthetic response to artistic photographs.

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sponsorship: Johan Wagemans https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7970-1541 We thank the photographers for their positive response to our inquiry for studying and reproducing their photographs in this article. We would like to thank Christophe Bossens for programming the experiment and Marie Bertels for assisting with practical aspects of setting up the study and collecting data. We thank Steven Verheyen for setting up and collecting the data for Study 3 (as part of a related project) and Myrthe Vissers for help in categorizing participants' titles. Furthermore, we would like to thank Professor Jan Landwehr for providing us further information on the analysis code used in his study, and Mayer and Landwehr for providing the open-source R package "imagefluency" to calculate image statistics. Finally, we would also like to thank Pieter Moors for his statistical advice. This work has been supported by long-term structural funding from the Flemish Government awarded to Johan Wagemans (METH/14/02). (Flemish Government|METH/14/02)