Knoll, A. L., Barrière, T., Weigand, R., Jacobsen, T., Leder, H., & Specker, E. (2024). Experiencing beauty in everyday life. Scientific Reports, 14(1), 9463. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-60091-w

Kühnapfel, C., Fingerhut, J., Brinkmann, H., Ganster, V., Tanaka, T., Specker, E., Mikuni, J., Güldenpfennig, F., Gartus, A., Rosenberg, R., & Pelowski, M. (2024). How Do We Move in Front of Art? How Does This Relate to Art Experience? Linking Movement, Eye Tracking, Emotion, and Evaluations in a Gallery-Like Setting. Empirical Studies of the Arts, 42(1), 86-146. https://doi.org/10.1177/02762374231160000

Specker, E. (2023). A Personal Perspective on Psychology of Aesthetics and the Arts: Ecologically-valid, interdisciplinary, and diverse methodologies. Creativity Research Journal. https://doi.org/10.1080/10400419.2023.2269339

Specker, E., Arato, J., & Leder, H. (2023). How are real artworks and reproductions judged? The role of anchoring in empirical investigations of the genuineness effect. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 108, [104494]. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jesp.2023.104494

Trupp, M. D., Bignardi, G., Specker, E., Vessel, E. A., & Pelowski, M. (2023). Who benefits from online art viewing, and how: The role of pleasure, meaningfulness, and trait aesthetic responsiveness in computer-based art interventions for well-being. Computers in Human Behavior, 145, [107764]. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2023.107764

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

Pelowski, M., Cotter, K., Specker, E., Fingerhut, J., Trupp, M., & Speidel, K-P. (Accepted/In press). For a Moment, Maybe: An Exploratory Study of the Incidence and Duration of Art Exhibition-Induced Prosocial Attitude Change Using a Two-Week Daily Diary Method. Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts. https://doi.org/10.31219/osf.io/w594s License CC-By Attribution 4.0 International Disciplines

Specker, E., Douda, M., & Leder, H. (2023). How do we understand artworks? Investigating the role of congruency in art perception. Empirical Studies of the Arts. https://doi.org/10.1177/02762374231201074

Specker, E., Cotter, K., & Kim, K. Y. (2023). The Next Step for the VAIAK: An Item-Focused Analysis. Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts. https://doi.org/10.1037/aca0000559

Boddy, J., Brinkmann, H., Specker, E., Forster, M., Leder, H., & Rosenberg, R. (2023). The Universality of Aesthetic Effects: An Empirical and Historical Assessment of a Persistent Idea. Zeitschrift für Ästhetik und allgemeine Kunstwissenschaft, 68(2), 147-169.

Fekete, A., Pelowski, M., Specker, E., Brieber, D., Rosenberg, R., & Leder, H. (2023). The Vienna Art Picture System (VAPS): A dataset of 999 paintings and subjective ratings for art and aesthetics research. Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts, 17(5), 660-671. https://doi.org/10.1037/aca0000460

Fekete, A., Specker, E., Mikuni, J., Trupp, M., & Leder, H. (2023). When the painting meets its musical inspiration: The impact of multimodal art experience on aesthetic enjoyment and subjective well-being in the museum. Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts. https://doi.org/10.1037/aca0000641

Trupp, M., Bignardi, G., Chana, K., Specker, E., & Pelowski, M. (2022). Can a Brief Interaction With Online, Digital Art Improve Wellbeing? A Comparative Study of the Impact of Online Art and Culture Presentations on Mood, State-Anxiety, Subjective Wellbeing, and Loneliness. Frontiers in Psychology, 13, 1-17. [782033]. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.782033

Mikuni, J., Specker, E., Pelowski, M., Leder, H., & Kawabata, H. (2022). Is There a General “Art Fatigue” Effect? A Cross-Paradigm, Cross-Cultural Study of Repeated Art Viewing in the Laboratory. Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts, 16(2), 343-360. https://doi.org/10.1037/aca0000396

Specker, E., Stamkou, E., Pelowski, M., & Leder, H. (2022). Radically revolutionary or pretty flowers? The impact of curatorial narrative of artistic deviance on perceived artist influence. Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts, 16(2), 332-342. https://doi.org/10.1037/aca0000320

Fekete, A., Maidhof, R. M., Specker, E., Nater, U. M., & Leder, H. (2022). Does art reduce pain and stress? A registered report protocol of investigating autonomic and endocrine markers of music, visual art, and multimodal aesthetic experience. PLoS ONE, 17(4), [e0266545]. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0266545

Pelowski, M., Specker, E., Boddy, J., Immelmann, B., Haiduk, F., Spezie, G., Ibanez de Aldecoa de Elera, P., Jean-Joseph, H., Leder, H., & Markey, P. (2022). Together in the Dark?: Investigating the Understanding and Feeling of Intended Emotions Between Viewers and Professional Artists at the Venice Biennale. Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts, 17(6), 772-792. https://doi.org/https://psycnet.apa.org/doi/10.1037/aca0000436

Specker, E., & Leder, H. (2022). Testing the facsimile accommodation hypothesis. Acta Psychologica, 222, [103482]. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actpsy.2021.103482