IAEA was founded at the first international congress in Paris in 1965 by Daniel Berlyne, Robert Francés, Carmelo Genovese, and Albert Wellek.
It is the second-oldest branch of scientific psychology, traditionally dating from 1876, the year Gustav Theodor Fechner (1801-1887) published his Vorschule der Aesthetik (Preschool of Aesthetics).
Fechner, who also is credited with founding psychophysics, established methods for examining aesthetic response to a variety of visual forms, including an exploration of the venerable Golden Section hypothesis.
Currently, the officers of IAEA are President Oshin Vartanian (Toronto), Secretary Aniko Illes (Budapest) and Treasurer Rebecca Chamberlain (London).
[citation needed] IAEA gives several awards to recognize excellence in empirical research on aesthetics and creativity: This aesthetics-related article is a stub.