Dr. Eva Specker, BSc MSc
Eva Specker
Wintersemester 2024
200027 PS Proseminar zu Allgemeiner Psychologie - Introduction to Empirical Aesthetics
Sommersemester 2024
200047 SE Bachelorarbeit
Wintersemester 2023







Pittelkow, M-M., Field, S. M., Isager, P. M., van´t Veer, A. E., Anderson, T., Cole, S. N., Dominik, T., Giner-Sorolla, R., Gok, S., Heyman, T., Jekel, M., Luke, T. J., Mitchell, D. B., Peels, R., Pendrous, R., Sarrazin, S., Schauer, J. M., Specker, E., Tran, U., ... van Ravenzwaaij, D. (2023). The process of replication target selection in psychology: What to consider? The Royal Society Open Science, 10(2), [210586]. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.210586


Specker, E., & Tinio, P. (2023). For Emotion’s Sake…. in The Centrality of Emotions in the Art Experience. The Cambridge Handbook of Creativity and Emotions Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009031240.024











Psychologie der Kunst: Was ist das und was können wir daraus lernen

Eva Specker (Vortragende*r)

Nov. 2023

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Beyond Mere Pleasure: How Does Beauty and Pleasure Reduce Pain and Stress?

Anna Fekete (Vortragende*r), Eva Specker (Autor*in), Rosa Maidhof (Autor*in), Urs Markus Nater (Autor*in) & Helmut Leder (Autor*in)

5 Aug. 2023

Aktivität: VorträgeVortragScience to Science


Psychologie der Kunst: Was ist das Wien und was können wir daraus lernen

Eva Specker (Vortragende*r)

Apr. 2023

Aktivität: VorträgeVortragScience to Public


Investigating the Genuineness Effect: Looking at real works of art vs. reproductions

Eva Specker (Vortragende*r)

2023

Aktivität: VorträgeVortragScience to Science


Why do we need real physical artworks? An investigation into the genuineness effect

Eva Specker (Vortragende*r)

2023

Aktivität: VorträgeVortragScience to Science


Why do we need real physical artworks? An investigation into the genuineness effect

Eva Specker (Vortragende*r)

2023

Aktivität: VorträgeVortragScience to Science


Why do we need real physical artworks? An investigation into the genuineness effect.

Eva Specker (Vortragende*r)

2023

Aktivität: VorträgeVortragScience to Science


Only one Monet in-person and online: How does an online art intervention compare to an in-gallery art intervention for anxiety and mood?

MacKenzie Trupp (Vortragende*r), laura ehrlich (Autor*in), Anna Fekete (Autor*in), Eva Specker (Autor*in) & Matthew Pelowski (Autor*in)

Aug. 2022

Aktivität: VorträgeVortragScience to Science


How are real artworks and reproductions judged?,

Eva Specker (Vortragende*r)

2022

Aktivität: VorträgeVortragScience to Science



Investigating the Genuineness Effect: Looking at real works of art vs. reproductions

Eva Specker (Vortragende*r)

2022

Aktivität: VorträgeVortragScience to Science


Studying Art… Empirically?

Eva Specker (Vortragende*r)

2022

Aktivität: VorträgeVortragScience to Science


Aesthetic perception of prosodic patterns as a factor in speech segmentation

Theresa Matzinger (Vortragende*r), Eva Specker (Autor*in), Nikolaus Ritt (Autor*in) & William Tecumseh Sherman Fitch (Autor*in)

7 Sep. 2021

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Delivering Art interventions for Wellbeing Online

MacKenzie Trupp (Vortragende*r), Giacomo Bignardi (Autor*in), Kirren Kartar Kaur Chana (Autor*in), Eva Specker (Autor*in) & Matthew Pelowski (Autor*in)

Sep. 2021

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How can engagement in the arts effect our emotional lives?

Eva Specker (Vortragende*r)

8 Okt. 201911 Okt. 2019

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How can engagement in the arts effect our emotional lives?

Eva Specker (Vortragende*r) & Matthew Pelowski (Autor*in)

Okt. 2019

Aktivität: VorträgeVortragScience to Science


Effects of context and genuineness in the evaluation of art

Eva Specker (Vortragende*r)

30 Aug. 20181 Sep. 2018

Aktivität: VorträgeVortragScience to Science


From conception to reception – How artistic intentions transform to viewers’ emotions in contemporary art.

Patrick Markey (Vortragende*r), Jane Boddy (Autor*in), Matthew Pelowski (Autor*in), Eva Specker (Autor*in), Felix Haiduk (Autor*in), Beatrice Immelmann (Autor*in), Paula Ibanez de Aldecoa de Elera (Autor*in) & Hillary Jean-Joseph (Autor*in)

30 Aug. 2018

Aktivität: VorträgeVortragScience to Science


Is red warm for everyone? Assessing the agreement on aesthetic effects of artworks.

Eva Specker (Vortragende*r)

30 Aug. 20181 Sep. 2019

Aktivität: VorträgeVortragScience to Science


Who’s afraid of (studying) installation art? An empirical assessment of the aesthetic experience of Olafur Eliasson’s Baroque, Baroque!

Eva Specker (Vortragende*r)

30 Aug. 20181 Sep. 2018

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Is red warm for everyone? Assessing the agreement on aesthetic effects of artworks

Eva Specker (Vortragende*r) & Matthew Pelowski (Autor*in)

Aug. 2018

Aktivität: VorträgeVortragScience to Science


Introducing the VAIAK: A new and validated measure to measure art interest and art knowledge

Eva Specker (Vortragende*r)

5 Aug. 2017

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New Directions in Empirical Aesthetics. 実験美学の新たな方向性

Helmut Leder (Keynote speaker), Matthew Pelowski (Keynote speaker), Raphael Rosenberg (Keynote speaker), Hideaki Kawabata (Keynote speaker), Eva Specker (Keynote speaker), Hanna Brinkmann (Keynote speaker) & Patrick Markey (Keynote speaker)

7 März 20178 März 2017

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Institut für Psychologie der Kognition, Emotion und Methoden

Liebiggasse 5
1010 Wien

eva.specker@univie.ac.at