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Prior research indicates greater agreement on aesthetic judgments of natural stimuli, such as landscapes and faces, than human\u2010made artifacts like artworks. This variability underscores the subjectivity of art appraisals. This study leverages recent theoretical and methodological advances in empirical aesthetics to investigate the complexity of aesthetic experiences by evaluating individual agreement across impacts more nuanced than global beauty and liking judgments. We hypothesized that complex appraisals are more variable than simpler affective ones. To test this, we employed a comprehensive taxonomy of cognitive and emotional impacts\u2014positive affect, negative affect, immersion\/motivation, and epistemic transformation. We also examined how levels of agreement vary by viewing context: museum in\u2010person versus digital online. Participants rated artworks presented in both gallery and digital contexts. 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