Universität Wien

200186 SE Scientific Readings (2020S)

5.00 ECTS (2.00 SWS), SPL 20 - Psychologie
Continuous assessment of course work
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Note: The time of your registration within the registration period has no effect on the allocation of places (no first come, first served).

Details

max. 25 participants
Language: English

Lecturers

Classes (iCal) - next class is marked with N

Most course material and presentations (by me) will be given in English. However, the class will include a lot of discussion & participation in class which, of course, can be done in German. In addition, I will also allow you to hand in your (written) assignments in German.

  • Tuesday 10.03. 13:15 - 14:45 Hörsaal E Psychologie, Liebiggasse 5 1. Stock
  • Tuesday 17.03. 13:15 - 14:45 Hörsaal E Psychologie, Liebiggasse 5 1. Stock
  • Tuesday 24.03. 13:15 - 14:45 Hörsaal E Psychologie, Liebiggasse 5 1. Stock
  • Tuesday 31.03. 13:15 - 14:45 Hörsaal E Psychologie, Liebiggasse 5 1. Stock
  • Tuesday 21.04. 13:15 - 14:45 Hörsaal E Psychologie, Liebiggasse 5 1. Stock
  • Tuesday 28.04. 13:15 - 14:45 Hörsaal E Psychologie, Liebiggasse 5 1. Stock
  • Tuesday 05.05. 13:15 - 14:45 Hörsaal E Psychologie, Liebiggasse 5 1. Stock
  • Tuesday 12.05. 13:15 - 14:45 Hörsaal E Psychologie, Liebiggasse 5 1. Stock
  • Tuesday 19.05. 13:15 - 14:45 Hörsaal E Psychologie, Liebiggasse 5 1. Stock
  • Tuesday 26.05. 13:15 - 14:45 Hörsaal E Psychologie, Liebiggasse 5 1. Stock
  • Tuesday 09.06. 13:15 - 14:45 Hörsaal E Psychologie, Liebiggasse 5 1. Stock
  • Tuesday 16.06. 13:15 - 14:45 Hörsaal E Psychologie, Liebiggasse 5 1. Stock
  • Tuesday 23.06. 13:15 - 14:45 Hörsaal E Psychologie, Liebiggasse 5 1. Stock
  • Tuesday 30.06. 13:15 - 14:45 Hörsaal E Psychologie, Liebiggasse 5 1. Stock

Information

Aims, contents and method of the course

The content of the course is centered around psychology of art/ empirical aesthetics in line with our focus at the EVA-lab: https://aesthetics.univie.ac.at/

Our overarching topics will be:
Art & Emotion
Art & Cognition
Art & Brain
Art & Field

You will pick one of these broad topics to write about for the final written essay (see below).

The aim of the course is to teach you the skills you need to succesfully complete your bachelorthesis ("Bachelorarbeit") in the next semester during the "Bachelorarbeitseminar".

This means that the aim of the course is to teach you how to:

- search for literature
- read critically
- formulate a research question
- outline a paper
- plan your writing
- give & receive/use feedback
- write a paper

Or, shortly said, to "search, construct, and write".

Since this course is a prelude to the Bachelorthesis, the final output of the course is a written essay. This essay will form the Introduction of your Bachelorthesis. I.e. It will specify a research question and provide a literature review for this question.

In the Bachelorthesis seminar we will then focus on "design, analysis, and interpretation" as core skills, and work from the research question towards a study design, data analysis choice, and data interpretation.
Note that the Bachelorthesis seminar will not require/include the collection of data. Rather, we will focus on the choice of an appropriate analysis and interpretation.

Assessment and permitted materials

Most course material and presentations (by me) will be given in English. However, the class will include a lot of discussion & participation in class which, of course, can be done in German. In addition, I will also allow you to hand in your (written) assignments in German.

Minimum requirements and assessment criteria

Detailed requirements will be given in class.
Minimum requirements are class attendance with maximum of two missed sessions (without special arrangement made with lecturers before missed class).

Examination topics

To be announced in the course.

Reading list

To be announced in the course.

Note that I will provide you with some "Basisliteratur" (see below) to get you started but that since part of the class is to teach you how to search and find your own literature most of the reading you will do will be literature you have found yourself.

Basisliteratur:

(This is meant to give you an impression of what kind of papers would fall within what topic)

General overview of the research field:
Pelowski, M., Markey, P. S., Forster, M., Gerger, G., & Leder, H. (2017). Move me, astonish me… delight my eyes and brain: The Vienna integrated model of top-down and bottom-up processes in art perception (VIMAP) and corresponding affective, evaluative, and neurophysiological correlates. Physics of Life Reviews, 21, 80-125. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.plrev.2017.02.003

Art and Emotion:
Pelowski, M., Specker, E., Gerger, G., Leder, H., & Weingarden, L. S. (2018). Do you feel like I do? A study of spontaneous and deliberate emotion sharing and understanding between artists and perceivers of installation art. Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts. https://doi.org/10.1037/aca0000201

Art and Cognition:
Augustin, M. D., Leder, H., Hutzler, F., & Carbon, C. C. (2008). Style follows content: On the microgenesis of art perception. Acta Psychologica, 128(1), 127–138. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actpsy.2007.11.006

Art and Brain:
Markey, P. S., Jakesch, M., & Leder, H. (2019). Art looks different – Semantic and syntactic processing of paintings and associated neurophysiological brain responses. Brain and Cognition, 134, 58–66. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bandc.2019.05.008

Art and Field:
Specker, E., Stamkou, E., Pelowski, M., & Leder, H. (2019). Radically revolutionary or pretty flowers? An experimental museum study of the impact of curatorial narrative highlighting artistic deviance on the visitor’s assessment of artist influence. Retrieved from http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3434578%0A

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