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Testing the facsimile accommodation hypothesis by Specker, Eva, Leder, Helmut

“…Research has failed to find evidence for a genuineness effect: the idea that aesthetic experiences are better when looking at real artworks versus…”
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Dispersion matters: Diagnostics and control data computer simulation in Concealed Information Test studies by Lukács, Gáspár, Specker, Eva

“…Binary classification has numerous applications. For one, lie detection methods typically aim to classify each tested person either as "liar" or as…”
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The Vienna Art Interest and Art Knowledge Questionnaire (VAIAK): A Unified and Validated Measure of Art Interest and Art Knowledge by Specker, Eva, Forster, Michael, Brinkmann, Hanna, Boddy, Jane, Pelowski, Matthew, Rosenberg, Raphael, Leder, Helmut

“…Being interested in art and having knowledge about art are arguably central dimensions in art experience and two of the most important individual differences…”
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Experiencing beauty in everyday life by Knoll, Anna Lena, Barrière, Tristan, Weigand, Rosalie, Jacobsen, Thomas, Leder, Helmut, Specker, Eva

“…Beauty surrounds us in many ways every day. In three experience sampling (ESM) studies we investigated frequency, category of eliciting stimuli (natural vs…”
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Author Correction: Experiencing beauty in everyday life by Knoll, Anna Lena, Barrière, Tristan, Weigand, Rosalie, Jacobsen, Thomas, Leder, Helmut, Specker, Eva

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Effects of Context and Genuineness in the Experience of Art by Grüner, Susanne, Specker, Eva, Leder, Helmut

“…Studies found that genuine artworks viewed in a museum receive higher appreciation ratings than reproductions in the laboratory. Due to the mutual variation of…”
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Can a Brief Interaction With Online, Digital Art Improve Wellbeing? A Comparative Study of the Impact of Online Art and Culture Presentations on Mood, State-Anxiety, Subjective Wellbeing, and Loneliness by Trupp, MacKenzie D., Bignardi, Giacomo, Chana, Kirren, Specker, Eva, Pelowski, Matthew

“…When experienced in-person, engagement with art has been associated—in a growing body of evidence—with positive outcomes in wellbeing and mental health. This…”
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Warm, lively, rough? Assessing agreement on aesthetic effects of artworks by Specker, Eva, Forster, Michael, Brinkmann, Hanna, Boddy, Jane, Immelmann, Beatrice, Goller, Jürgen, Pelowski, Matthew, Rosenberg, Raphael, Leder, Helmut

“…The idea that simple visual elements such as colors and lines have specific, universal associations-for example red being warm-appears rather intuitive. Such…”
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Does art reduce pain and stress? A registered report protocol of investigating autonomic and endocrine markers of music, visual art, and multimodal aesthetic experience by Fekete, Anna, Maidhof, Rosa M, Specker, Eva, Nater, Urs M, Leder, Helmut

“…The pain- and stress-reducing effects of music are well-known, but the effects of visual art, and the combination of these two, are much less investigated. We…”
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Is a "Real" Artwork Better than a Reproduction? A Meta-Analysis of the Genuineness Effect by Specker, Eva, Fekete, Anna, Trupp, MacKenzie D., Leder, Helmut

“…In general, people assume that looking at a real artwork-versus a reproduction-provides an experience that is qualitatively heightened, also called the…”
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Radically Revolutionary or Pretty Flowers? The Impact of Curatorial Narrative of Artistic Deviance on Perceived Artist Influence by Specker, Eva, Stamkou, Eftychia, Pelowski, Matthew, Leder, Helmut

“…The importance of curatorial narrative-the embedding of artworks or an entire exhibition inside a wider context of meaning and significance-is clear in theory…”
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The universal and automatic association between brightness and positivity by Specker, Eva, Leder, Helmut, Rosenberg, Raphael, Hegelmaier, Lisa Mira, Brinkmann, Hanna, Mikuni, Jan, Kawabata, Hideaki

“…The present study investigates the hypothesis that brightness of colors is associated with positivity, postulating that this is an automatic and universal…”
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Capturing Aesthetic Experiences With Installation Art: An Empirical Assessment of Emotion, Evaluations, and Mobile Eye Tracking in Olafur Eliasson's "Baroque, Baroque!" by Pelowski, Matthew, Leder, Helmut, Mitschke, Vanessa, Specker, Eva, Gerger, Gernot, Tinio, Pablo P L, Vaporova, Elena, Bieg, Till, Husslein-Arco, Agnes

“…Installation art is one of the most important and provocative developments in the visual arts during the last half century and has become a key focus of…”
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Looking on the Bright Side: Replicating the Association between Brightness and Positivity by Specker, Eva, Leder, Helmut

“…The present study is a pre-registered replication of a study by Specker et al. (2018) that tests the hypothesis that brightness of colors is associated with…”
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Does Gallery Lighting Really Have an Impact on Appreciation of Art? An Ecologically Valid Study of Lighting Changes and the Assessment and Emotional Experience With Representational and Abstract Paintings by Pelowski, Matthew, Graser, Andrea, Specker, Eva, Forster, Michael, von Hinüber, Josefine, Leder, Helmut

“…We report two studies considering the potential for gallery lighting conditions to modulate appraisals and emotional experience with works of visual art. As…”
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The Display Makes a Difference: A Mobile Eye Tracking Study on the Perception of Art Before and After a Museum's Rearrangement by Reitstätter, Luise, Brinkmann, Hanna, Santini, Thiago, Specker, Eva, Dare, Zoya, Bakondi, Flora, Miscená, Anna, Kasneci, Enkelejda, Leder, Helmut, Rosenberg, Raphael

“…There is increasing awareness that the perception of art is affected by the way it is presented. In 2018, the Austrian Gallery Belvedere redisplayed its…”
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Further Validating the VAIAK: Defining a Psychometric Model, Configural Measurement Invariance, Reliability, and Practical Guidelines by Specker, Eva

“…Art interest and art knowledge are central constructs in empirical aesthetics and specifically the psychology of art. Therefore, valid measurement of these…”
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A Personal Perspective on Psychology of Aesthetics and the Arts: Ecologically Valid, Interdisciplinary, and Diverse Methodologies by Specker, Eva

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The process of replication target selection in psychology: what to consider? by Pittelkow, Merle-Marie, Field, Sarahanne M, Isager, Peder M, Van't Veer, Anna E, Anderson, Thomas, Cole, Scott N, Dominik, Tomáš, Giner-Sorolla, Roger, Gok, Sebahat, Heyman, Tom, Jekel, Marc, Luke, Timothy J, Mitchell, David B, Peels, Rik, Pendrous, Rosina, Sarrazin, Samuel, Schauer, Jacob M, Specker, Eva, Tran, Ulrich S, Vranka, Marek A, Wicherts, Jelte M, Yoshimura, Naoto, Zwaan, Rolf A, van Ravenzwaaij, Don

“…Increased execution of replication studies contributes to the effort to restore credibility of empirical research. However, a second generation of problems…”
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Review of The Routledge International Handbook of Neuroaesthetics by Specker, Eva

“…Reviews the book, Routledge International Handbook of Neuroaesthetics edited by Martin Skov and Marcos Nadal (2022). In this book, Skov and Nadal have divided…”
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