Publications up to 2020
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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), S54-54. Article 167. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12529-025-10383-w
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., 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
Roth, L., Kawabata, H., & Leder, H. (2025). Universal, Cultural, or Individual? An Intercultural Assessment of Shared Proportions of Private Taste in Aesthetic Appreciation. Empirical Studies of the Arts.
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
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
Miscená, A., Frentzen, V., Arato, J., Dare, Z., Leder, H., & Rosenberg, R. (2024). No such thing as the female eye: ditching gender-binary categories in art perception. Feminist Media Studies, 1-25. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1080/14680777.2024.2361043
Mikuni, J., Spee, B. T. M., Forlani, G., Leder, H., Scharnowski, F., Nakamura, K., Watanabe, K., Kawabata, H., Pelowski, M., & Steyrl, D. (2024). Cross-Cultural Comparison of Beauty Judgments in Visual Art Using Machine Learning Analysis of Art Attribute Predictors Among Japanese and German Speakers. Scientific Reports, 14(1), Article 15948. https://doi.org/10.1038/S41598-024-65088-Z
Specker, E., Douda, M., & Leder, H. (2024). How do we understand artworks? Investigating the role of congruency in art perception. Empirical Studies of the Arts, 42(2), 469-497. https://doi.org/10.1177/02762374231201074
Knoll, A. L., Barrière, T., Weigand, R., Jacobsen, T., Leder, H., & Specker, E. (2024). Experiencing beauty in everyday life. Scientific Reports, 14(1), 9463. Article 9463. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-60091-w
Krumpholz, C., Quigley, C., Fusani, L., & Leder, H. (2024). Vienna Talking Faces (ViTaFa): A multimodal person database with synchronized videos, images, and voices. Behavior Research Methods, 56(4), 2923-2940. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13428-023-02264-5
Spee, B. T. M., Arato, J., Mikuni, J., Tran, U., Pelowski, M., & Leder, H. (2024). The dynamics of experiencing Gestalt and Aha in cubist art: pupil responses and art evaluations show a complex interplay of task, stimuli content, and time course. Frontiers in Psychology, 15, 01-15. Article 1192565. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2024.1192565
Leder, H., & Pelowski, M. (2024). Metaphors or mechanism? Predictive coding and a (brief) history of empirical study of the arts. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 379(1895), Article 20220427. https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2022.0427
Jonauskaite, D., Dael, N., Baboulaz, L., Chèvre, L., Cierny, I., Ducimetière, N., Fekete, A., Gabioud, P., Leder, H., Vetterli, M., & Mohr, C. (2024). Interactive Digital Engagement With Visual Artworks and Cultural Artefacts Enhances User Aesthetic Experiences in the Laboratory and Museum. International Journal of Human–Computer Interaction, 40(6), 1369-1382. https://doi.org/10.1080/10447318.2022.2143767
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.
Valuch, C., Pelowski, M., Peltoketo, V.-T., Hakala, J., & Leder, H. (2023). Let's put a smile on that face-A positive facial expression improves aesthetics of portrait photographs. Royal Society Open Science, 10(10), Article 230413. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.230413
Chana, K., Mikuni, J., Schnebel, A., & Leder, H. (2023). Reading in the city: mobile eye-tracking and evaluation of text in an everyday setting. Frontiers in Psychology, 14, Article 1205913. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1205913
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, Article 104494. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jesp.2023.104494