Congratulations to Manuela Marin for successfully defending her PhD Thesis "Towards a Comparative Approach to Empirical Aesthetics: Complexity and Emotion in Environmental Scenes, Representational Paintings and Music" at the @evalabs.bsky.social yesterday! 🎉🎓
A few weeks ago, five of our PhD candidates represented the EVA and ARTIS lab at the CoBeNe PhD-Academy in Vienna. We had a blast sharing our investigations with other early career researchers and attending a plethora of engaging talks! 🎉 Here are some insights:
Can abstract art elicit the emotion of being moved without the help of curatorial text or narrative cues? Find out in the new publication by Zhou et al. from the EVAlabs! 👉doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2026.1720357
(Photograph by researcher; reproduced with permission. Courtesy of Heidi Horten Collection)
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🏙 Which urban man-made components are studied for aesthetics and wellbeing?
We bring the first scoping review summary on implementing aesthetics, as a factor that is considered when looking at the urban built environment, whilst also addressing potential improvements to wellbeing. @univie.ac.at
🍾🎉 Congratulations to our PhD students Srestha Chakraborty and Nicola Weiss, who received the @oeaw DOC fellowship to fund their research.
Great news as we head into the holidays:
Our project about the effect of multimodal art on pain and stress by Anna Fekete & @rosamaidhof.bsky.social with @evalabs.bsky.social won the Faculty’s Registered Report Award!
👉 doi.org/10.31234/osf...
Anna also won an awesome Christmas sweater prize🎄🪅
👩🎓..and we have another new Doctor in the lab! Stephanie Miller successfully defended her doctoral thesis "Art Experience Types: Identifying and Applying Shared Patterns in Phenomenal Experience of Visual Art" on Monday! Congratulations! 🎉🍾
All the hugs for our newest Doctor! @kirrenchana.bsky.social successfully defended her PhD "Reading in the City" last Friday. Congratulations! 🎉🎓
Submissions are now open!
The 2026 IAEA Congress invites researchers, scholars, and artists from different domains and countries to present and share empirical research on aesthetics, creativity, and the psychology and neurobiology of the arts and aesthetics.
✨Congratulations to @mactrupp.bsky.social who successfully defended her PhD last week! 🥂 🎉
Lots happening in the Lab: Helmut Leder is featured in a podcast (www.krone.at/3943666) and an episode of Wiener Wissen (www.krone.at/3943243). The ARTIS group can be seen on ORF2 on 9th November at 9.05 am tv.orf.at/kunstalsme10....
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Photo Credit:
krone.tv (left), Good Media Solutions (right)
It's been a weekend filled with art for the EvaLabs:
Helmut Leder attended an exhibition opening at Toolip Art Gallery featuring one of our Master students Elisabeth Noller.
Meanwhile some of our PhD students checked out the Modern Githic exhibition at the Albertina.
Welcome to the IAEA Aesthetics Conference 2026 in Jena!
We are delighted to announce that the International Association for Empirical Aesthetics (IAEA) will hold its next international conference in Jena, Germany, from 5th to 8th May.
Discover more at iaea-jena2026.org (link in bio)
I'm a Scientist Themenrunde Kunst im digitalen Zeitalter. Live-Chats vom 24. bis 28. November
Ab sofort könnt ihr euch für die neue Themenrunde von I’m a Scientist "Kunst im digitalen Zeitalter" bewerben – sie wird gemeinsam mit dem Sonderforschungsbereich „Andere Ästhetik“ der @unituebingen.bsky.social veranstaltet. Bewerbungsschluss: 30. Oktober.
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What happens when we encounter art while just going about our everyday life, walking through Vienna? 🎨 We tried to answer this question by looking at people looking at art in an observational study tracking naturally occurring interactions with art in our study area. 🕵♀️
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Join our team! We're hiring a Team Assistant to support the ALLab. Responsibilities include administrative tasks, calendar management & more. German (and English) language skills are essential. Check it out and pass on the news: www.iwm-tuebingen.de/de/karriere/...
Could ultrasound stimulation and art therapy help with Parkinson's disease? Read about the "Unlocking the Muse" project in this article from @futurezone.at (in German): futurezone.at/science/ultr...
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New German interview: @juliasophiacrone.bsky.social and Blanca Spee talk about understanding the link between creativity and Parkinson's using ultrasound and art therapy.
futurezone.at/science/ultr...
Hi Bluesky! 🦋
We are the Aesthetics and Learning Lab (ALL).
ALLab is based in the Leibniz-Institut für Wissensmedien (IWM) in Tübingen. Its aim is to empirically investigate how and what can be learned from aesthetic experiences ✨
Stay tuned, for now... That's ALL folks!
Our dear @margot-dehove.bsky.social is leaving us for a research stay in the UK through the OeAD Marietta Blau scholarship. Yesterday we said goodbye with lots of laughter (although we are sad to see her go) and one of Margot's favourite things in Austria (Laugenecke from Billa)
We are looking for German speaking participants for a study on communication of emotions through art and text.
See image below or the link for more info:
univie.questionpro.eu/t/AB3u5rNZB3...
New Interview: From anesthetic to party drug to potential antidepressant: ketamine is at the forefront of treatment-research in depression. @juliasophiacrone.bsky.social and Marie Spies discuss promises and pitfalls of using ketamine as an intervention for depression.
In print: shorturl.at/WwXoc
@franzroman.bsky.social is looking for 2 Vienna-based summer interns to help with his study on the role of the dopamine system on cognitive flexibility and creativity. 🎨 See below for more info (in German) and get in touch with Franz directly! 👨🔬
We want to know how people experience changes in creativity during adulthood! Fill out this 5 minutes questionnaire (English or German) and share widely 👩🎨🎭qualtricsxmyhjwlb898.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_eLhxX97h53xo...
Can you judge a book by its cover? Turns out—yes, and it sticks with you. 📚✨
Our new article explores how text + image features on book covers affect memory and aesthetic judgement—using Italian novels as part of a collaboration with the University of Verona doi.org/10.3390/lite...
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Last week we went on a little lab retreat. We stayed at the beautiful Rudolfsvilla in Reichenau an der Rax. We had food prepared by our wonderful chefs Helmut, Jan, and Kirren. We discussed future career plans of our PhD students in the garden and around the fire. We all had a beautiful time ❤
Today we skipped our lab meeting and went to Foto Arsenal instead, a wonderful new museum for photography in Vienna's 3rd district.
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