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      <title>Die Entwicklung des Leseverständnisses und der Rechtschreibfähigkeit</title>
      <link>http://opus4.kobv.de/opus4-bamberg/frontdoor/index/index/docId/3680</link>
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      <author>Miriam Lotz; Edgar Schoreit; Iris Kempter</author>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 24 May 2013 13:22:21 +0200</pubDate>
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      <title>Sanctus episcopus : das Bischofsideal von früh- und hochmittelalterlichen Bischofsviten im Spannungsfeld von Anspruch und Wirklichkeit </title>
      <link>http://opus4.kobv.de/opus4-bamberg/frontdoor/index/index/docId/3699</link>
      <description/>
      <author>Daniel Alt</author>
      <category>doctoralthesis</category>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 24 May 2013 12:37:01 +0200</pubDate>
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      <title>The power of liking: Highly sensitive asthetic processing for guiding us through the world</title>
      <link>http://opus4.kobv.de/opus4-bamberg/frontdoor/index/index/docId/2119</link>
      <description>Assessing liking is one of the most intriguing and influencing types of processing we&#13;
experience day by day. We can decide almost instantaneously what we like and are highly consistent&#13;
in our assessments, even across cultures. Still, the underlying mechanism is not well understood&#13;
and often neglected by vision scientists. Several potential predictors for liking are discussed in the&#13;
literature, among them very prominently typicality. Here, we analysed the impact of subtle changes&#13;
of two perceptual dimensions (shape and colour saturation) of three-dimensional models of chairs&#13;
on typicality and liking. To increase the validity of testing, we utilized a test-adaptation–retest design&#13;
for extracting sensitivity data of both variables from a static (test only) as well as from a dynamic&#13;
perspective (test–retest). We showed that typicality was only influenced by shape properties,&#13;
whereas liking combined processing of shape plus saturation properties, indicating more complex&#13;
and integrative processing. Processing the aesthetic value of objects, persons, or scenes is an&#13;
essential and sophisticated mechanism, which seems to be highly sensitive to the slightest variations&#13;
of perceptual input.&#13;
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      <author>Stella J.  Faerber; Claus-Christian Carbon</author>
      <category>article</category>
      <guid>http://opus4.kobv.de/opus4-bamberg/frontdoor/index/index/docId/2119</guid>
      <pubDate>Fri, 24 May 2013 11:51:38 +0200</pubDate>
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      <title>Artful terms: A study on aesthetic word usage for visual art versus film and music</title>
      <link>http://opus4.kobv.de/opus4-bamberg/frontdoor/index/index/docId/2115</link>
      <description>Despite the importance of the arts in human life, psychologists still know relatively little&#13;
about what characterises their experience for the recipient. The current research approaches this&#13;
problem by studying people’s word usage in aesthetics, with a focus on three important art forms:&#13;
visual art, film, and music. The starting point was a list of 77 words known to be useful to describe&#13;
aesthetic impressions of visual art (Augustin et al 2012, Acta Psychologica 139 187–201). Focusing&#13;
on ratings of likelihood of use, we examined to what extent word usage in aesthetic descriptions&#13;
of visual art can be generalised to film and music. The results support the claim of an interplay&#13;
of generality and specificity in aesthetic word usage. Terms with equal likelihood of use for all&#13;
art forms included beautiful, wonderful, and terms denoting originality. Importantly, emotion-related&#13;
words received higher ratings for film and music than for visual art. To our knowledge this is direct&#13;
evidence that aesthetic experiences of visual art may be less affectively loaded than, for example,&#13;
experiences of music. The results render important information about aesthetic word usage in the&#13;
realm of the arts and may serve as a starting point to develop tailored measurement instruments for&#13;
different art forms.</description>
      <author>M. Dorothee Augustin; Claus-Christian Carbon; Johan Wagemans</author>
      <category>article</category>
      <guid>http://opus4.kobv.de/opus4-bamberg/frontdoor/index/index/docId/2115</guid>
      <pubDate>Fri, 24 May 2013 11:50:40 +0200</pubDate>
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      <title>Judging body-weight from faces: The height-weight illusion</title>
      <link>http://opus4.kobv.de/opus4-bamberg/frontdoor/index/index/docId/2113</link>
      <description>Abstract. Being able to exploit features of the human face to predict health and fitness can serve&#13;
as an evolutionary advantage. Surface features such as facial symmetry, averageness, and skin&#13;
colour are known to influence attractiveness. We sought to determine whether observers are able&#13;
to extract more complex features, namely body weight. If possible, it could be used as a predictor&#13;
for health and fitness. For instance, facial adiposity could be taken to indicate a cardiovascular&#13;
challenge or proneness to infections. Observers seem to be able to glean body weight information&#13;
from frontal views of a face. Is weight estimation robust across different viewing angles? We&#13;
showed that participants strongly overestimated body weight for faces photographed from a&#13;
lower vantage point while underestimating it for faces photographed from a higher vantage point.&#13;
The perspective distortions of simple facial measures (eg width-to-height ratio) that accompany&#13;
changes in vantage point do not suffice to predict body weight. Instead, more complex patterns must be involved in the height ^ weight illusion.</description>
      <author>Tobias M. Schneider; Heiko Hecht; Claus-Christian Carbon</author>
      <category>article</category>
      <guid>http://opus4.kobv.de/opus4-bamberg/frontdoor/index/index/docId/2113</guid>
      <pubDate>Fri, 24 May 2013 11:48:36 +0200</pubDate>
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      <title>The Mere Exposure effect in the domain of haptics</title>
      <link>http://opus4.kobv.de/opus4-bamberg/frontdoor/index/index/docId/2112</link>
      <description>Background: Zajonc showed that the attitude towards stimuli that one had been previously exposed to is more positive&#13;
than towards novel stimuli. This mere exposure effect (MEE) has been tested extensively using various visual stimuli. Research&#13;
on the MEE is sparse, however, for other sensory modalities.&#13;
Methodology/Principal Findings: We used objects of two material categories (stone and wood) and two complexity levels&#13;
(simple and complex) to test the influence of exposure frequency (F0 = novel stimuli, F2 = stimuli exposed twice,&#13;
F10 = stimuli exposed ten times) under two sensory modalities (haptics only and haptics &amp; vision). Effects of exposure&#13;
frequency were found for high complex stimuli with significantly increasing liking from F0 to F2 and F10, but only for the&#13;
stone category. Analysis of ‘‘Need for Touch’’ data showed the MEE in participants with high need for touch, which suggests&#13;
different sensitivity or saturation levels of MEE.&#13;
Conclusions/Significance: This different sensitivity or saturation levels might also reflect the effects of expertise on the&#13;
haptic evaluation of objects. It seems that haptic and cross-modal MEEs are influenced by factors similar to those in the&#13;
visual domain indicating a common cognitive basis.</description>
      <author>Martina Jakesch; Claus-Christian Carbon</author>
      <category>article</category>
      <guid>http://opus4.kobv.de/opus4-bamberg/frontdoor/index/index/docId/2112</guid>
      <pubDate>Fri, 24 May 2013 11:46:23 +0200</pubDate>
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      <title>Aesthetic appraisal of product designs: Independent effects of typicality and arousal</title>
      <link>http://opus4.kobv.de/opus4-bamberg/frontdoor/index/index/docId/2107</link>
      <description>Theories differ on how typicality and arousal influence aesthetic appraisal and whether&#13;
these processes together interact or have independent effects on aesthetic appraisal.&#13;
This research investigates the simultaneous effects of typicality and arousal on aesthetic&#13;
appraisal for product designs by manipulating both processes separately: typicality by&#13;
prototype deviation and arousal by colour saturation levels. We demonstrate that&#13;
typicality has a curvilinear relationship with aesthetic appraisal. Additionally, arousal&#13;
has a positive linear relationship with aesthetic appraisal of product designs. Moreover,&#13;
arousal can influence aesthetic appraisal independent from typicality.</description>
      <author>Janneke Blijlevens; Claus-Christian Carbon; Ruth Mugge; Jan P. L. Schoormans</author>
      <category>article</category>
      <guid>http://opus4.kobv.de/opus4-bamberg/frontdoor/index/index/docId/2107</guid>
      <pubDate>Fri, 24 May 2013 11:38:52 +0200</pubDate>
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      <title>Tax Competition and Global Background Justice </title>
      <link>http://opus4.kobv.de/opus4-bamberg/frontdoor/index/index/docId/2124</link>
      <description/>
      <author>Peter Dietsch; Thomas Rixen</author>
      <category>preprint</category>
      <guid>http://opus4.kobv.de/opus4-bamberg/frontdoor/index/index/docId/2124</guid>
      <pubDate>Fri, 24 May 2013 11:32:59 +0200</pubDate>
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      <title>From post-socialist transition to globalisation and Europeanisation? Metropolitan developments in Belgrade, Bucharest and Sofia</title>
      <link>http://opus4.kobv.de/opus4-bamberg/frontdoor/index/index/docId/3540</link>
      <description/>
      <author>Daniel Göler; Holger Lehmeier</author>
      <category>articlecollection</category>
      <guid>http://opus4.kobv.de/opus4-bamberg/frontdoor/index/index/docId/3540</guid>
      <pubDate>Fri, 24 May 2013 11:01:07 +0200</pubDate>
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      <title>There's more than one way to irritation! An attempt to categorize ambiguity in art</title>
      <link>http://opus4.kobv.de/opus4-bamberg/frontdoor/index/index/docId/3622</link>
      <description>Irritation is not definable by outside-characteristics but is elicited by inconsistencies between internal states [Zschocke, 2006, Munich, Fink]. The principle of exclusivity calls for only one clear interpretation at a time thus explaining why we perceive a sudden switch between interpretations when bi-stable pictures are perceived. Zeki [2004, Consciousness and Cognition, 13(1), 173-196] defines ambiguity accordingly as the existence of multiple possibilities or schemata in contrast to uncertainty. We extracted several categories of ambiguity out of multi-dimensional semantic scales gathered for the perception of modern art that go beyond ambiguity as a simple “switch” of interpretations. Examples out of experiential reports further indicate that contradictory elements can be found on several levels of processing including imagination, association and simulation processes. We propose that modern art is capable of fusing unsolvable contradictions in various ways. Several theories suggest that elaboration of these ambiguities [Ramachandran and Hirstein, 1999, Journal of Consciousness Studies, 6(6-7), 15-51] and specifically the reduction of prediction-errors [Van de Cruys and Wagemans, 2011, i-Perception, 2(9), 1035-1062] are linked to aesthetic appreciation which underlines the relevance of looking closer at the several ways of irritation in art.&#13;
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Ramachandran V S, Hirstein W, 1999 "The science of art. A neurological theory of aesthetic experience" Journal of Consciousness Studies 6 15-51&#13;
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Van de Cruys S, Wagemans J, 2011 "Putting reward in art: A tentative prediction error account of visual art" i-Perception 2 1035-1062&#13;
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Zeki S, 2004 "The neurology of ambiguity" Consciousness and Cognition 13 173-196&#13;
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Zschocke N, 2006 Der irritierte Blick: Kunstrezeption und Aufmerksamkeit (Munich: Fink)</description>
      <author>Claudia Muth; Claus-Christian Carbon</author>
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      <guid>http://opus4.kobv.de/opus4-bamberg/frontdoor/index/index/docId/3622</guid>
      <pubDate>Fri, 24 May 2013 09:25:45 +0200</pubDate>
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      <title>Stationäre Behandlung von Jugendlichen mit akuter Alkoholintoxikation: Die Spitze des Eisbergs? </title>
      <link>http://opus4.kobv.de/opus4-bamberg/frontdoor/index/index/docId/3265</link>
      <description/>
      <author>L. Kraus; T.-V. Hannemann; A. Pabst; S. Müller; F. Kronthaler; A. Grübl; M. Stürmer; Jörg Wolstein</author>
      <category>article</category>
      <guid>http://opus4.kobv.de/opus4-bamberg/frontdoor/index/index/docId/3265</guid>
      <pubDate>Fri, 24 May 2013 09:12:28 +0200</pubDate>
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      <title>Ein Schweizer in Paris. Wilhelm Tell zwischen Robespierre, Schiller und Rossini</title>
      <link>http://opus4.kobv.de/opus4-bamberg/frontdoor/index/index/docId/3415</link>
      <description/>
      <author>Albert Gier</author>
      <category>sound</category>
      <guid>http://opus4.kobv.de/opus4-bamberg/frontdoor/index/index/docId/3415</guid>
      <pubDate>Fri, 24 May 2013 09:01:44 +0200</pubDate>
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      <title>Sfidat e Zhvillimit Rajonal në Shqipëri – Eksperienca Gjermane</title>
      <link>http://opus4.kobv.de/opus4-bamberg/frontdoor/index/index/docId/3538</link>
      <description/>
      <author>Daniel Göler</author>
      <category>conferenceobject</category>
      <guid>http://opus4.kobv.de/opus4-bamberg/frontdoor/index/index/docId/3538</guid>
      <pubDate>Thu, 23 May 2013 12:18:03 +0200</pubDate>
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      <title>Unternehmensgründungen und Entrepreneurship in den westlichen Balkanländern. Fallstudien aus Albanien, Bosnien-Herzegowina und Serbien</title>
      <link>http://opus4.kobv.de/opus4-bamberg/frontdoor/index/index/docId/3526</link>
      <description/>
      <author>Daniel Göler</author>
      <category>articlecollection</category>
      <guid>http://opus4.kobv.de/opus4-bamberg/frontdoor/index/index/docId/3526</guid>
      <pubDate>Thu, 23 May 2013 12:03:06 +0200</pubDate>
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      <title>Die lustige Salome</title>
      <link>http://opus4.kobv.de/opus4-bamberg/frontdoor/index/index/docId/3424</link>
      <description/>
      <author>Albert Gier</author>
      <category>article</category>
      <guid>http://opus4.kobv.de/opus4-bamberg/frontdoor/index/index/docId/3424</guid>
      <pubDate>Thu, 23 May 2013 12:00:22 +0200</pubDate>
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      <title>"Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg", Komödie als Ideendrama</title>
      <link>http://opus4.kobv.de/opus4-bamberg/frontdoor/index/index/docId/3422</link>
      <description/>
      <author>Albert Gier</author>
      <category>article</category>
      <guid>http://opus4.kobv.de/opus4-bamberg/frontdoor/index/index/docId/3422</guid>
      <pubDate>Thu, 23 May 2013 11:16:05 +0200</pubDate>
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      <title>Narrative in Contemporary Opera: A Case Study</title>
      <link>http://opus4.kobv.de/opus4-bamberg/frontdoor/index/index/docId/3416</link>
      <description/>
      <author>Albert Gier</author>
      <category>conferenceobject</category>
      <guid>http://opus4.kobv.de/opus4-bamberg/frontdoor/index/index/docId/3416</guid>
      <pubDate>Thu, 23 May 2013 11:10:58 +0200</pubDate>
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      <title>Abschied vom Aktionsbild : der italienische Neorealismus und das Kino der Moderne</title>
      <link>http://opus4.kobv.de/opus4-bamberg/frontdoor/index/index/docId/3702</link>
      <description/>
      <author>Jörn Glasenapp</author>
      <category>book</category>
      <guid>http://opus4.kobv.de/opus4-bamberg/frontdoor/index/index/docId/3702</guid>
      <pubDate>Thu, 23 May 2013 10:57:19 +0200</pubDate>
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      <title>Boccanegra und das Ende der Geschichte</title>
      <link>http://opus4.kobv.de/opus4-bamberg/frontdoor/index/index/docId/3411</link>
      <description/>
      <author>Albert Gier</author>
      <category>report</category>
      <guid>http://opus4.kobv.de/opus4-bamberg/frontdoor/index/index/docId/3411</guid>
      <pubDate>Tue, 21 May 2013 16:39:40 +0200</pubDate>
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      <title>Erster Workshop der Arbeitsgemeinschaft Computeranwendungen und quantitative Methoden in der Archäologie (AG CAA) am 22. und 23. Januar 2010 in Bonn</title>
      <link>http://opus4.kobv.de/opus4-bamberg/frontdoor/index/index/docId/3310</link>
      <description/>
      <author>Tim Kerig; Karsten Lambers; Axel Posluschny</author>
      <category>article</category>
      <guid>http://opus4.kobv.de/opus4-bamberg/frontdoor/index/index/docId/3310</guid>
      <pubDate>Tue, 21 May 2013 16:14:23 +0200</pubDate>
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      <title>Self-Initiated Repatriation: A Cross-Country Comparative Study Between Denmark, France and Germany</title>
      <link>http://opus4.kobv.de/opus4-bamberg/frontdoor/index/index/docId/3302</link>
      <description/>
      <author>Maike Andresen; Matthias Walther</author>
      <category>conferenceobject</category>
      <guid>http://opus4.kobv.de/opus4-bamberg/frontdoor/index/index/docId/3302</guid>
      <pubDate>Tue, 21 May 2013 16:01:01 +0200</pubDate>
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      <title>Informelles Wohnen als Routine? Multiple urbane Transformationen in der Agglomeration Belgrad: Das Beispiel Kaluđerica</title>
      <link>http://opus4.kobv.de/opus4-bamberg/frontdoor/index/index/docId/3541</link>
      <description/>
      <author>Daniel Göler; Marija  Martinović; Ivan Ratkaj; Danica Śantić</author>
      <category>article</category>
      <guid>http://opus4.kobv.de/opus4-bamberg/frontdoor/index/index/docId/3541</guid>
      <pubDate>Tue, 21 May 2013 15:15:11 +0200</pubDate>
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      <title>Ich bin nicht wie die Anderen - Heirats-/EliteimmigrantInnen aus Brasilien in Franken und die Auswirkungen auf die Kindererziehung</title>
      <link>http://opus4.kobv.de/opus4-bamberg/frontdoor/index/index/docId/2818</link>
      <description>Das Ziel dieser Arbeit war, die Konstellationen der deutsch-brasilianischen familiären Lebensformen zu verstehen, insbesondere soll klar werden: Motivation für die binationale Eheschliessung, Lebenstile und Lebensbewältigung binationaler Ehen und wie die Kindererziehung, Schulleben und die Interaktion mit der (neuen) Umgebung gestaltet werden.&#13;
Dieser Arbeit soll zum denken anregen, wie man diese “neuen Bürger“ in die deutsch Kultur  integrieren kann,  ohne die  brasilianische Kultur  und die portugiesische Sprache zu diskrimminieren und/oder zu zestören, umd zwar so, dass diese Kinder nicht als “Schulversager”  enden und  an den Rand der Gesellschaft geschoben werden.&#13;
Deutschland wird zwar “noch” nicht offiziel als Einwanderungsland gesehen, aber die Realität sieht anders aus. Brasilien wird immer noch in weiten Teilen der deutschen Bevölkerung als  Entwicklungsland gesehen, aber BRICs zeigt etwas anders.&#13;
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Schlüsselwörter: Deutsch-brasilianisch, Heiratsimmigrantinnen, Eliteimmigranten, Kindererziehung, BRIC1, Integration, Habitus.&#13;
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      <author>Flávia Silva Cruz Brunner</author>
      <category>doctoralthesis</category>
      <guid>http://opus4.kobv.de/opus4-bamberg/frontdoor/index/index/docId/2818</guid>
      <pubDate>Tue, 21 May 2013 15:12:17 +0200</pubDate>
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      <title>Arithmetische Muster untersuchen</title>
      <link>http://opus4.kobv.de/opus4-bamberg/frontdoor/index/index/docId/3516</link>
      <description/>
      <author>Anna Susanne Steinweg</author>
      <category>article</category>
      <guid>http://opus4.kobv.de/opus4-bamberg/frontdoor/index/index/docId/3516</guid>
      <pubDate>Tue, 21 May 2013 15:10:15 +0200</pubDate>
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      <title>Dreifach vermitteltes Mittelalter. Könige, Ritter und Bürger bei Henry Purcell und Richard Strauss</title>
      <link>http://opus4.kobv.de/opus4-bamberg/frontdoor/index/index/docId/3472</link>
      <description/>
      <author>Albert Gier</author>
      <category>report</category>
      <guid>http://opus4.kobv.de/opus4-bamberg/frontdoor/index/index/docId/3472</guid>
      <pubDate>Tue, 21 May 2013 15:05:28 +0200</pubDate>
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