Dr. Eva Specker, BSc MSc
Eva Specker
Winter term 2024
200027 PS Proseminar zu Allgemeiner Psychologie - Introduction to Empirical Aesthetics
Summer term 2024
200047 SE Bachelorarbeit
Winter term 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 (Speaker)

Nov 2023

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Public


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

Anna Fekete (Speaker), Eva Specker (Contributor), Rosa Maidhof (Contributor), Urs Markus Nater (Contributor) & Helmut Leder (Contributor)

5 Aug 2023

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


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

Eva Specker (Speaker)

Apr 2023

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Public


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

Eva Specker (Speaker)

2023

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


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

Eva Specker (Speaker)

2023

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


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

Eva Specker (Speaker)

2023

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


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

Eva Specker (Speaker)

2023

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience 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 (Speaker), laura ehrlich (Contributor), Anna Fekete (Contributor), Eva Specker (Contributor) & Matthew Pelowski (Contributor)

Aug 2022

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


How are real artworks and reproductions judged?,

Eva Specker (Speaker)

2022

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


How are real artworks and reproductions judged? The role of anchoring in empirical investigations of the genuineness effect.

Eva Specker (Speaker)

2022

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


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

Eva Specker (Speaker)

2022

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Studying Art… Empirically?

Eva Specker (Speaker)

2022

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Aesthetic perception of prosodic patterns as a factor in speech segmentation

Theresa Matzinger (Speaker), Eva Specker (Contributor), Nikolaus Ritt (Contributor) & William Tecumseh Sherman Fitch (Contributor)

7 Sep 2021

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Can a brief interaction with online, digital art make you feel better? A comparative study of the impact of online art and culture presentations on mood, state-anxiety, loneliness, and subjective wellbeing

MacKenzie Trupp (Speaker), Giacomo Bignardi (Contributor), Eva Specker (Contributor), Kirren Kartar Kaur Chana (Contributor) & Matthew Pelowski (Contributor)

Sep 2021

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Delivering Art interventions for Wellbeing Online

MacKenzie Trupp (Speaker), Giacomo Bignardi (Contributor), Kirren Kartar Kaur Chana (Contributor), Eva Specker (Contributor) & Matthew Pelowski (Contributor)

Sep 2021

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Further Validating the VAIAK: Defining a Psychometric Model, Configural Measurement Invariance, Reliability, and Practical Guidelines

Eva Specker (Speaker)

2021

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


How can engagement in the arts effect our emotional lives?

Eva Specker (Speaker)

8 Oct 201911 Oct 2019

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Public


How can engagement in the arts effect our emotional lives?

Eva Specker (Speaker) & Matthew Pelowski (Contributor)

Oct 2019

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Effects of context and genuineness in the evaluation of art

Eva Specker (Speaker)

30 Aug 20181 Sep 2018

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


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

Patrick Markey (Speaker), Jane Boddy (Contributor), Matthew Pelowski (Contributor), Eva Specker (Contributor), Felix Haiduk (Contributor), Beatrice Immelmann (Contributor), Paula Ibanez de Aldecoa de Elera (Contributor) & Hillary Jean-Joseph (Contributor)

30 Aug 2018

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


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

Eva Specker (Speaker)

30 Aug 20181 Sep 2019

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


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

Eva Specker (Speaker)

30 Aug 20181 Sep 2018

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


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

Eva Specker (Speaker) & Matthew Pelowski (Contributor)

Aug 2018

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


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

Eva Specker (Speaker)

5 Aug 2017

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


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 Mar 20178 Mar 2017

Activity: Talks and presentationsTalk or oral contributionScience to Science


Department of Cognition, Emotion, and Methods in Psychology

Liebiggasse 5
1010 Wien

eva.specker@univie.ac.at