EVAlabs Vienna

Our dear @margot-dehove.bsky.social is leaving us for a research stay in the UK through the OeAD Marietta Blau scholarship. Yesterday we said goodbye with lots of laughter (although we are sad to see her go) and one of Margot's favourite things in Austria (Laugenecke from Billa)

We are looking for German speaking participants for a study on communication of emotions through art and text.
See image below or the link for more info:
univie.questionpro.eu/t/AB3u5rNZB3...

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ZIMT Magazin - Ausgabe 3 - Sommer 2025 ZIMT - Das Magazin für die Psyche, Printausgabe 3 2025

New Interview: From anesthetic to party drug to potential antidepressant: ketamine is at the forefront of treatment-research in depression. @juliasophiacrone.bsky.social and Marie Spies discuss promises and pitfalls of using ketamine as an intervention for depression.
In print: shorturl.at/WwXoc

@franzroman.bsky.social is looking for 2 Vienna-based summer interns to help with his study on the role of the dopamine system on cognitive flexibility and creativity. 🎨 See below for more info (in German) and get in touch with Franz directly! 👨‍🔬

We want to know how people experience changes in creativity during adulthood! Fill out this 5 minutes questionnaire (English or German) and share widely 👩‍🎨🎭https://qualtricsxmyhjwlb898.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_eLhxX97h53xosO

Can you judge a book by its cover? Turns out—yes, and it sticks with you. 📚✨
Our new article explores how text + image features on book covers affect memory and aesthetic judgement—using Italian novels as part of a collaboration with the University of Verona doi.org/10.3390/lite...
@univie.ac.at

Last week we went on a little lab retreat. We stayed at the beautiful Rudolfsvilla in Reichenau an der Rax. We had food prepared by our wonderful chefs Helmut, Jan, and Kirren. We discussed future career plans of our PhD students in the garden and around the fire. We all had a beautiful time ❤

Today we skipped our lab meeting and went to Foto Arsenal instead, a wonderful new museum for photography in Vienna's 3rd district.
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Do aesthetic experiences require real sensory input, or can mental imagery evoke them just as powerfully?
Our study shows that vivid mental imagery alone can trigger aesthetic experiences nearly indistinguishable from those caused by real sensory input! doi.org/10.1016/j.isci.2025.112588

JOB ALERT!

2-year post-doc available here in Vienna at the ARTIS Lab as part of a @fwf-at.bsky.social funded project on emotion communication through artistic drawing in autistic and non-autistic adults.

Find out more here: www.artislab.org/projects/asd...

Job offer: Postdoctoral Researcher as a Junior Research Group Leader (m/f/d) at the IWM (Leibniz-Institut für Wissensmedien) in Tübingen

🔈 #joboffer: Postdoctoral Researcher as a Junior Research Group Leader (m/f/d)
#Research on and Implementation of #DigitalTeaching Scenarios, full-time, E14 TV-L, initially fixed term for 4 years, starting as soon as possible. ℹ️More information: www.iwm-tuebingen.de/www/en/karri... #blueedu #postdoc

🥂🎓 Congratulations to Akshay Mendhakar who successfully defended his PhD thesis on "Text mining as an assistive tool to improve aesthetic reading experience in English as a foreign language" yesterday!
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The impact of viewing art on well-being—a systematic review of the evidence base and suggested mechanisms Art viewing is increasingly seen as having benefits for well-being. Despite this, evidence is scattered, and the siloed nature of past research stunts our mechanistic understanding. To address this...

New review! We provide an overview of the psychological processes that may be at play when #art viewing supports #wellbeing.

More testing of these ideas are needed so We provided new Receptive Art Reporting Guidelines to encourage more quality #research.

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www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Kunst in unserem Leben steigert das Wohlbefinden Forscher*innen ermitteln die Vorteile am Betrachten von Kunst

Kunst in unserem Leben steigert das Wohlbefinden 🖼️
Allein der Anblick von bildender Kunst, der Besuch eines Museums oder die Anwesenheit von Kunst im Krankenzimmer kann das Wohlbefinden steigern, insbesondere bei wiederholter Beschäftigung damit. 🧑‍🎨
Mehr dazu: ⤵️

Last September we celebrated the EVALabs' 20th anniversary, now we finally have some photos to share from the event. 🎉🥂

📷: Chris Valuch

head over to our lab website to see more eva.univie.ac.at

PhD position opening in Padova. It is a multidisciplinary project in Experimental Aesthetics and Psychology of Art.
www.bertamini.org/lab/MIRACLE....

(Before and after photo were definitely not taken at the same time)

Last week we felt a bit down, so we went to the Albertina to see their current exhibition 'Matthew Wong -- Vincent van Gogh: Painting as a last resort'. While the lives if both artists may not have been the happiest, we for sure felt better after seeing their art.

While we sadly had to say goodbye to Eva in the EVAlabs, two new people will have the chance to say hello to her at her new lab in Tübingen @iwmtue.bsky.social

www.iwm-tuebingen.de/www/en/karri...

Join me online today with Conscious Vienna #ccities25! 🌍

🎨 The Aesthetic City: The Art of Urban Wellbeing in Vienna 🏛️✨
📅 Date: March 25, 2025
⏰ Time: 10:00 AM (CET) until 2:00 PM (CET)
📍 Location: Online

theccd.org/event/the-ae...

📢 New Paper !

Building on Mikuni et al. (2024) and recently published, discover how our art parklet influences wellbeing in the Lab

🎨 🏙️ Spoiler alert: The effects vary significantly, but art in urban environment seems to have a distinct impact.

Find out more here: doi.org/10.1177/0276...

#WWTF