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EVAlabs Vienna @evalabs.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Congratulations to Dr. Maximilian Kathofer for his brilliant defense on "The hedonic experience from neural emergence to modulation by ketamine" last week! This witching hour presentation also crowned him as the first Crone Lab PhD 🎉🥳

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Universität Wien / University of Vienna @univie.ac.at · 26/05/2026

#UnisRetten: Zukunft lässt sich nicht einsparen‼️✊ Gemeinsam auf die Straße gehen und ein Zeichen setzen -gegen die geplanten Einsparungen und für Qualität in Lehre & Forschung, für Chancengerechtigkeit & Zukunftsfähigkeit! 📅: 27. Mai, 13 Uhr 📍: Hauptgebäude Uni Wien www.univie.ac.at/aktuelles/un...

Demo in Wien! Mittwoch, 27. Mai, 13 Uhr. Für die Unis. Auf die Straße. Uni Wien Hauptgebäude.

Demoroute: Start Uni Wien, über das Wissenschaftsministerium zum Ballhausplatz.

Ablauf: 13 Uhr, Startkundgebung und Reden vor der Uni Wien (Hauptgebäude), 14 Uhr, Demozug zum Ballhausplatz über das BMBWF, 15:30 Uhr, Schlusskundgebung am Ballhausplatz

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StressLab UniVienna @stresslabvienna.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

We are glad to share our new Registered Report paper with @rosamaidhof.bsky.social and @evalabs.bsky.social on the effect of visual art and music on pain and stress. Exposure to multimodal art resulted in longer pain tolerance compared to visual art, but not compared to music doi.org/10.1371/jour...

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EVAlabs Vienna @evalabs.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

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! 🎉🎓

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EVAlabs Vienna @evalabs.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

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:

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EVAlabs Vienna @evalabs.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

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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EVAlabs Vienna @evalabs.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

🏙 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

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EVAlabs Vienna @evalabs.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

🍾🎉 Congratulations to our PhD students Srestha Chakraborty and Nicola Weiss, who received the @oeaw DOC fellowship to fund their research.

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StressLab UniVienna @stresslabvienna.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

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🎄🪅

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EVAlabs Vienna @evalabs.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

👩‍🎓..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! 🎉🍾

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EVAlabs Vienna @evalabs.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

All the hugs for our newest Doctor! @kirrenchana.bsky.social successfully defended her PhD "Reading in the City" last Friday. Congratulations! 🎉🎓

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iaea-jena2026.bsky.social @iaea-jena2026.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

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.

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EVAlabs Vienna @evalabs.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

✨Congratulations to @mactrupp.bsky.social who successfully defended her PhD last week! 🥂 🎉

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EVAlabs Vienna @evalabs.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

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.... 📺🎧 Photo Credit: krone.tv (left), Good Media Solutions (right)

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EVAlabs Vienna @evalabs.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

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.

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iaea-jena2026.bsky.social @iaea-jena2026.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

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)

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Wissenschaft im Dialog @w-i-d.de · 08/09/2025

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. imascientist.de/bewerbungsfo... #Wisskomm

I'm a Scientist Themenrunde Kunst im digitalen Zeitalter. Live-Chats vom 24. bis 28. November

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EVAlabs Vienna @evalabs.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

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. 🕵‍♀️ doi.org/10.3389/fpsy...

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Aesthetics & Learning Lab (ALL) @allab-iwm.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

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/...

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Aesthetics & Learning Lab (ALL) @allab-iwm.bsky.social · 18/08/2025

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!

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EVAlabs Vienna @evalabs.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

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)

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EVAlabs Vienna @evalabs.bsky.social · 31/07/2025

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...

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EVAlabs Vienna @evalabs.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

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

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ZIMT Magazin - Ausgabe 3 - Sommer 2025

ZIMT - Das Magazin für die Psyche, Printausgabe 3 2025

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EVAlabs Vienna @evalabs.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

@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! 👨‍🔬

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EVAlabs Vienna @evalabs.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

We want to know how people experience changes in creativity during adulthood! Fill out this 5 minutes questionnaire (English or German) and share widely 👩‍🎨🎭https://qualtricsxmyhjwlb898.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_eLhxX97h53xosO

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Qualtrics Survey | Qualtrics Experience Management

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EVAlabs Vienna @evalabs.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

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... @univie.ac.at

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EVAlabs Vienna @evalabs.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

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 ❤

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EVAlabs Vienna @evalabs.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

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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EVAlabs Vienna @evalabs.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

Do aesthetic experiences require real sensory input, or can mental imagery evoke them just as powerfully? Our study shows that vivid mental imagery alone can trigger aesthetic experiences nearly indistinguishable from those caused by real sensory input! doi.org/10.1016/j.isci.2025.112588

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EVAlabs Vienna @evalabs.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

JOB ALERT! 2-year post-doc available here in Vienna at the ARTIS Lab as part of a @fwf-at.bsky.social funded project on emotion communication through artistic drawing in autistic and non-autistic adults. Find out more here: www.artislab.org/projects/asd...

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Emotion communication in ASD bodies and brains through visual art — Artis Lab

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Leibniz-Institut für Wissensmedien (IWM) @iwmtue.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

🔈 #joboffer: Postdoctoral Researcher as a Junior Research Group Leader (m/f/d) #Research on and Implementation of #DigitalTeaching Scenarios, full-time, E14 TV-L, initially fixed term for 4 years, starting as soon as possible. ℹ️More information: www.iwm-tuebingen.de/www/en/karri... #blueedu #postdoc

Job offer: Postdoctoral Researcher as a Junior Research Group Leader (m/f/d) at the IWM (Leibniz-Institut für Wissensmedien) in Tübingen

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EVAlabs Vienna @evalabs.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

🥂🎓 Congratulations to Akshay Mendhakar who successfully defended his PhD thesis on "Text mining as an assistive tool to improve aesthetic reading experience in English as a foreign language" yesterday! 🎉🥂

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Claire Howlin 🎶🧠 @dancingresearch.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

New review! We provide an overview of the psychological processes that may be at play when #art viewing supports #wellbeing. More testing of these ideas are needed so We provided new Receptive Art Reporting Guidelines to encourage more quality #research. 🖼️👀⚖️ www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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The impact of viewing art on well-being—a systematic review of the evidence base and suggested mechanisms

Art viewing is increasingly seen as having benefits for well-being. Despite this, evidence is scattered, and the siloed nature of past research stunts our mechanistic understanding. To address this...

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Universität Wien / University of Vienna @univie.ac.at · 15/04/2025

Kunst in unserem Leben steigert das Wohlbefinden 🖼️ Allein der Anblick von bildender Kunst, der Besuch eines Museums oder die Anwesenheit von Kunst im Krankenzimmer kann das Wohlbefinden steigern, insbesondere bei wiederholter Beschäftigung damit. 🧑‍🎨 Mehr dazu: ⤵️

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Kunst in unserem Leben steigert das Wohlbefinden

Forscher*innen ermitteln die Vorteile am Betrachten von Kunst

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EVAlabs Vienna @evalabs.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

Last September we celebrated the EVALabs' 20th anniversary, now we finally have some photos to share from the event. 🎉🥂 📷: Chris Valuch head over to our lab website to see more eva.univie.ac.at

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Marco Bertamini @marco-be.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

PhD position opening in Padova. It is a multidisciplinary project in Experimental Aesthetics and Psychology of Art. www.bertamini.org/lab/MIRACLE....

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EVAlabs Vienna @evalabs.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

Last week we felt a bit down, so we went to the Albertina to see their current exhibition 'Matthew Wong -- Vincent van Gogh: Painting as a last resort'. While the lives if both artists may not have been the happiest, we for sure felt better after seeing their art.

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EVAlabs Vienna @evalabs.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

While we sadly had to say goodbye to Eva in the EVAlabs, two new people will have the chance to say hello to her at her new lab in Tübingen @iwmtue.bsky.social www.iwm-tuebingen.de/www/en/karri...

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Kirren Chana @kirrenchana.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

Join me online today with Conscious Vienna #ccities25! 🌍 🎨 The Aesthetic City: The Art of Urban Wellbeing in Vienna 🏛️✨ 📅 Date: March 25, 2025 ⏰ Time: 10:00 AM (CET) until 2:00 PM (CET) 📍 Location: Online theccd.org/event/the-ae...

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margot-dehove.bsky.social @margot-dehove.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

📢 New Paper ! Building on Mikuni et al. (2024) and recently published, discover how our art parklet influences wellbeing in the Lab 🎨 🏙️ Spoiler alert: The effects vary significantly, but art in urban environment seems to have a distinct impact. Find out more here: doi.org/10.1177/0276... #WWTF

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