Publications up to 2020
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Fekete, A., Maidhof, R., Specker, E., Gartus, A., Nater, U. M., & Leder, H. (2026). Registered Report: How does art impact pain and stress? Exposure to multimodal art (Music + Visual) and music alone enhances pain tolerance more than visual art, but neither art form impacts autonomic or endocrine markers. PLoS ONE, 21, Article e0334060. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0334060
Chana, K., Dehove, M., Mikuni, J., Specker, E., Knoll, A. L., Barrière, T., Trupp, M. D., Pelowski, M., Oberzaucher, E., & Leder, H. (2026). Aesthetic components of urban environments and their relation to wellbeing: a scoping review. Cities & Health, 10(2), 491-512. https://doi.org/10.1080/23748834.2025.2569732
Avram, D., Dehove, M., Oberzaucher, E., Leder, H., & Mikuni, J. (2026). How Familiar Art Shapes Urban Experience: Field and Laboratory Studies on Environmental Evaluation, Restorative Potential, and Well-being. Manuscript submitted for publication.
Roth, L., Kawabata, H., & Leder, H. (2026). Universal, Cultural, or Individual? An Intercultural Assessment of Shared Proportions of Private Taste in Aesthetic Appreciation. Empirical Studies of the Arts, 44(1), 5-21. https://doi.org/10.1177/02762374251334962
Mendhakar, A., Sierak, K., Chana, K., & Leder, H. (2025). Does the reading platform matter? An eye-tracking study. AILA Review, 38(1), 105-128. https://doi.org/10.1075/aila.24033.men
Fekete, A., Maidhof, R., Specker, E., Nater, U. M., & Leder, H. (2025). How Does Art Influence Pain and Stress? Investigating Autonomic and Endocrine Markers of Music, Visual Art, and Multimodal Art Experience. International journal of behavioral medicine, 32(Suppl 1), 54-54. Article 167. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12529-025-10383-w
Dehove, M., Mikuni, J., Podolin, N., Leder, H., & Oberzaucher, E. (2025). The Impact of Urban art on Wellbeing: A Laboratory Study. Empirical Studies of the Arts, 43(2), 1240-1268. https://doi.org/10.1177/02762374241298878
Miller, S., Cotter, K. N., Fingerhut, J., Leder, H., & Pelowski, M. (2025). What Can Happen When We Look at Art? An Exploratory Network Model and Latent Profile Analysis of Affective/Cognitive Aspects Underlying Shared, Supraordinate Responses to Museum Visual Art. Empirical Studies of the Arts, 43(2), 827-876. https://doi.org/10.1177/02762374241292576
Kathofer, M., Lamm, C., Leder, H., & Crone, J. S. (2025). Aesthetic experiences across visual perception and mental imagery: Behaviorally indistinguishable, neurally distinct. iScience, 28(6), Article 112588. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.isci.2025.112588
Chana, K., Mikuni, J., Rebora, S., Vezzani, G., Meyer, A., Salgaro, M., & Leder, H. (2025). Judging Books by Their Covers: The Impact of Text and Image Features on the Aesthetic Evaluation and Memorability of Italian Novels. Literature, 5(2). https://doi.org/10.3390/literature5020013
Pelowski, M., Cotter, K. N., Miller, S. L., & Leder, H. (2025). Framing wellbeing and societal challenge mechanisms via distinct outcomes of art experience? A brief revisit to the VIMAP. Physics of Life Reviews, 52, 132-143. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.plrev.2024.12.004
Mikuni, J., Specker, E., Brielmann, A., Leder, H., Rosenberg, R., & Kawabata, H. (2025, Feb 28). Why do we engage less with art over time? Empirical investigations on the role of habituation and stimulus novelty in mitigating the decreased engagement from repeated art viewing. Manuscript submitted for publication. https://doi.org/10.31219/osf.io/s258f_v2
Miller, S. L., Cotter, K. N., Fingerhut, J., Leder, H., & Pelowski, M. (2025). Five Types of Phenomenal Experience Underlie Our Engagements With Visual Art: A Large-Scale Network Modeling and Latent Profile Approach to Assessing Individual Encounters With Art. https://doi.org/10.31219/osf.io/ectbh_v2
Miscená, A., Frentzen, V., Arato, J., Dare, Z., Leder, H., & Rosenberg, R. (2025). No such thing as the female eye: ditching gender-binary categories in art perception. Feminist Media Studies, 25(7), 1549-1573. https://doi.org/10.1080/14680777.2024.2361043
Pelowski, M., Cabbai, G., Brinkmann, H., Mikuni, J., Hegelmaier, L., Forster, M., Rosenberg, R., & Leder, H. (2025). The Kitsch Switch—or (When) Do Experts Dislike Thomas Kinkade Art? A Study of Time-Based Evaluation Changes in Top-Down Versus Bottom-Up Assessment. Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts, 19(3), 377-395. https://doi.org/10.1037/aca0000302
Dehove, M., Mikuni, J., Podolin-Danner, N., Moser, M. K., Resch, B., Dörrzapf, L., Böhm, P. M., Prager, K., Leder, H., & Oberzaucher, E. (2024). Exploring the influence of urban art interventions on attraction and wellbeing: an empirical field experiment. Frontiers in Psychology, 15, Article 1409086. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2024.1409086
Mikuni, J., Dehove, M., Dörrzapf, L., Moser, M. K., Resch, B., Böhm, P., Prager, K., Podolin, N., Oberzaucher, E., & Leder, H. (2024). Art in the city reduces the feeling of anxiety, stress, and negative mood: A field study examining the impact of artistic intervention in urban public space on well-being. Wellbeing, Space and Society, 7, Article 100215. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wss.2024.100215
Miller, S., Cotter, K., Fingerhut, J., Leder, H., & Pelowski, M. (2024). What Can Happen When We Look at Art? An Exploratory Network Model and Latent Profile Analysis of Affective/Cognitive Aspects Underlying Shared, Supraordinate Responses to Museum Visual Art. Empirical Studies of the Arts.
Amend, L., Mikuni, J., Dehove, M., Dörrzapf, L., Moser, M. K., Resch, B., Böhm, P., Prager, K., Leder, H., & Oberzaucher, E. (2024). The impact of urban street green transformation on subjective well-being and evaluation of the location: A case study in Vienna, Austria. Environment and Social Psychology, 9(9), Article 2940. https://doi.org/10.59429/esp.v9i9.2861
Spee, B. T. M., Leder, H., Mikuni, J., Scharnowski, F., Pelowski, M., & Steyrl, D. (2024). Using Machine Learning to Predict Judgments on Western Visual Art Along Content-Representational and Formal-Perceptual Attributes. PLoS ONE, 19(9), Article e0304285. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0304285