马克斯·普朗克经验美学研究所成立于2012年，用科学方法来解释审美感知和判断的心理、神经元和社会文化基础。该研究所目前在建立过程中由四名科学家组成董事会管理，他们的专业知识涵盖文学，音乐以及实证认知和社会科学领域。该研究计划将侧重于音乐和文学，并与佛罗伦萨和罗马的马克斯普朗克艺术史研究所合作，研究视觉艺术。研究所在建筑和时尚领域将通过马克斯普朗克研究小组和研究员进行整合。此外，科学家将定期邀请“驻地艺术家”，特别是作曲家和作家，到研究所参与研究项目。

马克斯·普朗克实证美学研究所研究美学的产生形成以及审美实践和偏好对个人和社会的功能。该研究特别致力于美学评价感知和经验的基础，包括“审美愉悦”的本质以及审美愉悦和“审美感受”的各种深浅不一；控制审美判断知觉及其神经元、生理和行为相关性的认知和情感机制；审美愉悦的动机（反复观看/聆听/阅读，购买“美丽”物品的美学合理决定等）；审美偏好的个体遗传学获得，它们在生命周期中的变化以及它们的历史、文化和个体变异性；在语言上捕捉和讨论审美评价的历史和文化可变术语的范围；审美实践和判断对认知和情感能力发展以及个人主观幸福感、自我概念和自我风格化、社会沟通和经济行为的功能等。

马克斯·普朗克经验美学研究所的任务是为美学现象的跨学科研究提供新的科学和制度基础，在一个审美经验和实践、共同的审美偏好和审美动机的决定渗透到日常生活中的世界里，对审美实践、评价和行动动机的性质和功能进行系统的基础研究。

Founded in 2012, the Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics uses scientific methods to explain the psychological, neuronal, and sociocultural foundations of aesthetic perception and judgment. The Institute is currently being established with a board of four scientists whose expertise spans literature and music as well as empirical cognition and social science. The research programme will focus on music and literature and study visual art in collaboration with the Max Planck Institute for the History of Art in Florence and Rome. The institute in the field of architecture and fashion will be integrated through Max Planck research groups and researchers. In addition, the scientists will regularly invite "artist-in-residence", particularly composers and writers, to the Institute to participate in research projects.

The Max Planck Institute for Positive Aesthetics studies the creation and formation of aesthetics and the function of aesthetic practices and preferences for individuals and society. In particular, this study focuses on the basis of aesthetic evaluation perception and experience, including the nature of "aesthetic pleasure" and the various shades of aesthetic pleasure and "aesthetic feeling"; The cognitive and affective mechanisms that control aesthetic judgment perception and its neuronal, physiological, and behavioral correlations; The motivation for aesthetic pleasure (repeated viewing/listening/reading, aesthetically sound decisions to buy "beautiful" items, etc.); The individual genetic acquisition of aesthetic preferences, their changes over the life cycle and their historical, cultural and individual variability; Linguistically capture and discuss the range of historical and culturally variable terms of aesthetic evaluation; The functions of aesthetic practice and judgment on the development of cognitive and emotional ability, individual subjective well-being, self-concept and self-stylization, social communication and economic behavior, etc.

The mission of the Max Planck Institute for Experiential Aesthetics is to provide new scientific and institutional foundations for the interdisciplinary study of aesthetic phenomena, to conduct systematic and fundamental research on the nature and function of aesthetic practice, evaluation and motivation for action in a world in which aesthetic experience and practice, shared aesthetic preferences and decisions of aesthetic motivation permeate everyday life.