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„Erregung hui, Ästhetik pfui“ – I love this subheading! Check out this article (in German) summarizing the main findings of our study about immoral artists and art perception: shorturl.at/YB1eV

Cancel Culture: Kann man Werk und Künstler voneinander trennen? nationalgeographic.de/geschichte-und… via @natgeo

"Flow: people who are easily absorbed in an activity may have better mental and cardiovascular health." A very nice read, written by Miriam Mosing, about the science behind the relation between flow and (mental) health theconversation.com/flow-people-wh… via The Conversation

Can Art Be Data? A specific sense in which we think so. As evidence of salutary effects of at therapy in post-traumatic stress symptoms. Vicente Estrada Gonzalez lead author of the primary research. | Psychology Today psychologytoday.com/intl/blog/brai…

Thank you, @psypost, for the great summary of our article on how negative biographical knowledge about artists can affect art perception!

New preprint: "The neurobiology of processing art" by Oshin Vartanian, Marcos Nadal and myself. A good first primer for any student without a background in the neurosciences who wants to learn more about neural processes involved in the experience of art. osf.io/preprints/psya…

Tracing #emotions: Together w/ an interdisciplinary #research team, Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics's Julia F. Christensen & Gemma Roig studied #dance #movements to assess emotional expressivity using the newly developed software #EMOKINE. Out now in Behavior Research Methods: doi.org/10.3758/s13428…

“Artist or monster?” – How a new Gauguin exhibition addresses art from this controversial artist. Read more: theguardian.com/artanddesign/a…

Very excited to announce that PACA is now accepting Registered Reports! apa.org/pubs/journals/… #musicscience #empiricalaesthetics

Where do we find beauty in everyday life? Our new paper, tinyurl.com/mmt589xm, shows: Everywhere! Aesthetic experiences are common, & nature (though rather uncommon in urban jungles) is considered especially beautiful. As an added bonus aesthetic experiences boosts our mood!

arxiv.org/abs/2407.06345 PREPRINT OUT! Super thrilled to share our work on real-world multi-person eye tracking. We synchronize and project gaze from audience members watching a LIVE concert/film on Innocence Project (see video).👀 Big thanks to all involved and our PI Lauren Fink

The Routledge International Handbook of Neuroaesthetics is finally out in paperback at a price that should be affordable to students and early career scientists. routledge.com/The-Routledge-…

We can't help but judge people based on their appearance. Our ongoing, sometimes disheartening, work on the conflation of aesthetic and moral values. with Mariola (shorter: Maja) Paruzel-Czachura Judging People at a Glance | Psychology Today psychologytoday.com/us/blog/brain-…

New publication out! We show that visiting an art exhibition can make people more thoughtful and empathetic for up to a week! We also found that viewing art reduces xenophobia and increases acceptance of immigration. Link to full paper: doi.org/10.1037/aca000…

New interesting paper by Eftychia Stamkou et al. in Scientific Reports shows that emotional experiences of art exist on gradients rather than in clusters, with mixed #aestheticexperiences for each artwork (see pie charts): Explore emotions & artworks here: barradeau.com/2021/emotions-…

New paper out in PACA: Che, J., Sun, X., Skov, M., & Nadal, M. (2024). Judging beauty and liking: The effects of personal intuitions and task instructions.   doi.org/10.1037/aca000… psycnet.apa.org/record/2025-19…

How does neurodiversity affect aesthetic processing? I explored this questions with students from a seminar class on Neuroaesthics. Our insights just got published in Neuroscience and Behavioral Reviews. authors.elsevier.com/a/1jlNnY3M3i2MK I'm proud of the great work by the students!

📢 Call for #Abstracts! 📝 The 1st Annual #Conference on #AestheticDevelopment is being held on Nov 7, 2024 at our Institute. #Researchers across disciplines are invited to submit their abstracts by Sept 30! More information: indico.ae.mpg.de/event/22/abstr… #CallForAbstracts

Excited to collaborate on the MuVE Project (Museum Visitor Experience) with the with CReA Lab & MediaLab PhilKult funded by Vienna Doctoral School CoBeNe: We're diving into what moves the eye, what moves us, and how we move in museum spaces using #mobileyetracking. More info: crea.univie.ac.at/projects/muve-…

Society for Cognitive Studies of the Moving Image 2025 Conference (CFP) A conference on cognitive, philosophical, aesthetic, historical, psychological, neuroscientific, and evolutionary approaches to analysing film and other moving image media. british-aesthetics.org/cognitive-stud…