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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>
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      <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>
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      <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>
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      <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>
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      <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>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 24 May 2013 11:38:52 +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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      <pubDate>Fri, 24 May 2013 09:25:45 +0200</pubDate>
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      <title>Modelling Adaptation Effects as Similarity to Dynamic Prototypes</title>
      <link>http://opus4.kobv.de/opus4-bamberg/frontdoor/index/index/docId/2517</link>
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      <author>Michael Siebers; Johannes Folger; Simone Schineller; Dominik  Seuß; Stella Faerber; Ute Schmid</author>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 15 Apr 2013 13:08:16 +0200</pubDate>
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      <title>A Cognitive Model For Predicting Aesthetical Judgements As Similarity to Dynamic Prototypes</title>
      <link>http://opus4.kobv.de/opus4-bamberg/frontdoor/index/index/docId/2503</link>
      <description/>
      <author>Ute Schmid; Michael  Siebers; Johannes Folger; Simone Schineller; Dominik Seuss; Marius Raab; Claus-Christian Carbon; Stella J. Faerber</author>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 12 Apr 2013 09:43:23 +0200</pubDate>
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      <title>Face adaptation effects show strong and long-lasting transfer from lab to more ecological contexts</title>
      <link>http://opus4.kobv.de/opus4-bamberg/frontdoor/index/index/docId/2109</link>
      <description>Areviewonrecentexperimentsonfiguralfaceaftereffectsrevealsthatadaptationeffectsinfamousfacescanlastforhoursuptodays.Suchadaptationsseemtobehighlyreliableregardingtest–retestdesignsaswellasregardingthegeneralizabilityofadaptationacrossdifferentadaptationroutinesandadaptationstowarddifferentkindsoffacialproperties.However,inthestudiesconductedsofar,adaptationandthesubsequenttestphasewerecarriedoutintypicallaboratoryenvironments.Underthesecircumstances,itcannotberuledoutthattheobservedeffectsare,infact,episodiclearn–testcompatibilityeffects.Totestforecologicalvalidityinadaptationeffectsweusedanadaptationparadigmincludingenvironmentalandsocialpropertiesthatdifferedbetweenadaptationandtestphase.Withmatchedsamples(n1=n2=54)wefoundnomaineffectsofexperimentalsettingcompat-ibilityresultingfromvaryingwherethetestswhereconducted(environmentalcondition)noranyinteractionwitheffectsofstimuluscompatibilityresultingfromvaryingstimulussimilaritybetweenadaptationandtestphaseusingthesamepicture,differentpicturesofthesameperson,ordifferentpersons(transfer).Thisindicatesthattheseadaptationeffectsarenotartificialormerelylab-biasedeffects.Adaptationtofacestimulimaydocu-mentrepresentationaladaptationsandtuningmechanismsthatintegratenewvisualinputinaveryfast,reliable,andsustainableway.</description>
      <author>Claus-Christian Carbon; Thomas Ditye</author>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 11 Apr 2013 11:19:58 +0200</pubDate>
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      <title>Rigidity rather than age as a limiting factor to appreciate innovative design</title>
      <link>http://opus4.kobv.de/opus4-bamberg/frontdoor/index/index/docId/2108</link>
      <description>In this paper, we study to what degree older consumers differ from middle-aged&#13;
consumers with respect to the appreciation of new product designs. We asked respondents&#13;
from both age groups to evaluate innovative designs that were shown repeatedly, replicating a&#13;
regular market situation by using the Repeated Evaluation Technique (RET). The results show&#13;
that rigidity, but not age influences the speed of appreciation towards new product designs&#13;
under these circumstances. Our findings indicate that it is a misconception that older&#13;
consumers are slower in adopting new product innovations per se.</description>
      <author>Claus-Christian Carbon; Jan P. L. Schoormans</author>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 11 Apr 2013 11:14:11 +0200</pubDate>
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      <title>Bartlett's schema theory: The unreplicated "portrait d'homme" series from 1932</title>
      <link>http://opus4.kobv.de/opus4-bamberg/frontdoor/index/index/docId/1447</link>
      <description>In 1932, Frederic Bartlett laid the foundation for the later schema theory. His key assumption of previous knowledge affecting the processing of new stimuli was illustrated in the famous "portrait d'homme" series. Sequenced reproductions of ambiguous stimuli showed progressive object-likeness. As Bartlett pointed out, activation of specific schemata, for instance "the face schema", biases memory retrieval towards such schemata. In five experiments (Experiment 1, n = 53; Experiment 2, n = 177; Experiment 3, n = 36; Experiment 4, n = 6; Experiment 5, n = 2), we tested several factors potentially influencing retrieval biases—for example, by varying the general procedure of reproduction (repeated vs. serial) and by omitting versus providing visual or semantic cues for activating face schemata. Participants inspected face-like stimuli with the caption "portrait of the human" and reproduced them repeatedly under specific conditions. None of the experiments revealed a systematic tendency towards Bartlett's described case, even when the participants were explicitly instructed to draw "a face" like the previously inspected one. In one of the "serial reproduction" experiments, we even obtained contrary effects with decreasing face-likeness over the reproduction generations. A close analysis of the original findings raises questions about the replicability of Bartlett's findings, qualifying the "portrait d'homme" series more or less as an illustrative example of the main idea of reconstructive memory.</description>
      <author>Claus-Christian Carbon; Sabine Albrecht</author>
      <category>article</category>
      <guid>http://opus4.kobv.de/opus4-bamberg/frontdoor/index/index/docId/1447</guid>
      <pubDate>Thu, 11 Apr 2013 10:58:04 +0200</pubDate>
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      <title>All is beautiful? Generality vs. specificity  of word usage in visual aesthetics</title>
      <link>http://opus4.kobv.de/opus4-bamberg/frontdoor/index/index/docId/2106</link>
      <description>A central problem in the literature on psychological aesthetics is a lack of precision in terminology regarding&#13;
the description and measurement of aesthetic impressions. The current research project approached the&#13;
problem of terminology empirically, by studying people's word usage to describe aesthetic impressions.&#13;
For eight different object classes that are relevant in visual aesthetics, including visual art, landscapes, faces&#13;
and different design classes, we examined which words people use to describe their aesthetic impressions,&#13;
and which general conceptual dimensions might underlie similarities and differences between the classes.&#13;
The results show an interplay between generality and specificity in aesthetic word usage. In line with results&#13;
by Jacobsen, Buchta, Kohler, and Schroger (2004) beautiful and ugly seem to be the words with most general&#13;
relevance, but in addition each object class has its own distinct pattern of relevant terms. Multidimensional&#13;
scaling and correspondence analysis suggest that the most extreme positions in aesthetic word usage for the&#13;
classes studied are taken by landscapes and geometric shapes and patterns. This research aims to develop a&#13;
language of aesthetics for the visual modality. Such a common vocabulary should facilitate the development of&#13;
cross-disciplinary models of aesthetics and create a basis for the construction of standardised aesthetic&#13;
measures.</description>
      <author>M. Dorothee Augustin; Johan Wagemans; Claus-Christian Carbon</author>
      <category>article</category>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 21 Jan 2013 14:39:32 +0100</pubDate>
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      <title>Die Logik des Misslingens : strategisches Denken in komplexen Situationen</title>
      <link>http://opus4.kobv.de/opus4-bamberg/frontdoor/index/index/docId/1897</link>
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      <author>Dietrich  Dörner</author>
      <category>book</category>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 29 Nov 2012 11:28:19 +0100</pubDate>
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      <title>Selbstmanagement, das Gute und das Böse</title>
      <link>http://opus4.kobv.de/opus4-bamberg/frontdoor/index/index/docId/962</link>
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      <author>Dietrich Dörner</author>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 16 Oct 2012 13:46:24 +0200</pubDate>
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      <title>Horizonte der Klinischen Psychologie und Psychotherapie. Festschrift für Hans Reinecker</title>
      <link>http://opus4.kobv.de/opus4-bamberg/frontdoor/index/index/docId/960</link>
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      <author>Judith Siegl; Dieter Schmelzer; Herbert Mackinger; Wolfgang Pabst; Christa Reinecker; Eva Reinecker; Agnes Reinecker; Rainer Bastine; Michael Broda; Willi Butollo; Franz Caspar; Gerhard Crombach; Dietrich Dörner; Franz Dumbs; Ulrike Ehlert; Peter Fiedler; Steffen Fliegel; Markus Gmelch; Hans Preß; Kristin Härtl; Doreen Hartung; Kurt Hahlweg; Dirk Hellhammer; Juliane Hellhammer; Oswald Huber; Peter Kaimer; Thomas Köhler; Mario Alexander Kostal; Ludwig Kreuzpointner; Klaus D. Stiller; Helmut Lukesch; Ilse Kryspin-Exner; Bernhard Kulzer; Norbert Hermanns; Angelika Lakatos-Witt; Stefan Lautenbacher; Miriam Kunz; Lothar Laux; Hans Lieb; Michael Linden; Meinrad Perrez; Yves Hänggi; Franz Petermann; Reinhard Pietrowsky; Dirk Revenstorf; Ulrike S.; Annette Schaub; Hans-Jürgen Möller; Günther Schiepek; Harald C. Traue; Wolfgang Tunner; Heiner Vogel; Sebastian Wolf; Martin Hautzinger; Jörg Wolstein; Manfred Wünsche; Dirk Zimmer</author>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 16 Oct 2012 13:38:16 +0200</pubDate>
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      <title>Die Schönheit der Lyrik psychologisch erklärt. Unbestimmtheit, Assoziationen und die Ästhetik der Sprache</title>
      <link>http://opus4.kobv.de/opus4-bamberg/frontdoor/index/index/docId/921</link>
      <description/>
      <author> Verena Delle Donne</author>
      <category>doctoralthesis</category>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 12 Oct 2012 10:08:42 +0200</pubDate>
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      <title>Proceedings of KogWis 2012. 11th Biannual Conference of the German Cognitive Science Society</title>
      <link>http://opus4.kobv.de/opus4-bamberg/frontdoor/index/index/docId/690</link>
      <description>The German cognitive science conference is an interdisciplinary event where researchers from different disciplines -- mainly from artificial intelligence, cognitive psychology, linguistics, neuroscience, philosophy of mind, and anthropology -- and application areas -- such as eduction, clinical psychology, and human-machine interaction -- bring together different theoretical and methodological perspectives to study the mind. The 11th Biannual Conference of the German Cognitive Science Society took place from September 30 to October 3 2012 at Otto-Friedrich-Universität in Bamberg. The proceedings cover all contributions to this conference, that is, five invited talks, seven invited symposia and two symposia, a satellite symposium, a doctoral symposium, three tutorials, 46 abstracts of talks and 23 poster abstracts.</description>
      <author>Dietrich Dörner; Rainer Goebel; Mike Oaksford; Michael Pauen; Elsbeth Stern</author>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 21 Sep 2012 09:09:17 +0200</pubDate>
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      <title>Visibility in Information Spaces and in Geographic Environments. Post-Proceedings of the KI'11 Workshop (October 4th, 2011, TU Berlin, Germany)</title>
      <link>http://opus4.kobv.de/opus4-bamberg/frontdoor/index/index/docId/326</link>
      <description>In the post-proceedings of the Workshop "Visibility in Information Spaces and in Geographic Environments" a selection of research papers is presented where the topic of visibility is addressed in different contexts. Visibility governs information selection in geographic environments as well as in information spaces and in cognition. The users of social media navigate in information spaces and at the same time, as embodied agents, they move in geographic environments. Both activities follow a similar type of information economy in which decisions by individuals or groups require a highly selective filtering to avoid information overload. In this context, visibility refers to the fact that in social processes some actors, topics or places are more salient than others. Formal notions of visibility include the centrality measures from social network analysis or the plethora of web page ranking methods. Recently, comparable approaches have been proposed to analyse activities in geographic environments: Place Rank, for instance, describes the social visibility of urban places based on the temporal sequence of tourist visit patterns. The workshop aimed to bring together researchers from AI, Geographic Information Science, Cognitive Science, and other disciplines who are interested in understanding how the different forms of visibility in information spaces and geographic environments relate to one another and how the results from basic research can be used to improve spatial search engines, geo-recommender systems or location-based social networks.</description>
      <author>Andreas Henrich; Christoph Schlieder; Ute Schmid; Inessa Seifert; Bertram Saendig; Dominik Kremer; Peter Grossman; Markus Wachter; Marius Raab; Claus-Christian Carbon; Stella J. Faerber</author>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 23 Dec 2011 11:37:14 +0100</pubDate>
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      <title>Kolloquium 2011: Beiträge Bamberger Nachwuchswissenschaftlerinnen</title>
      <link>http://opus4.kobv.de/opus4-bamberg/frontdoor/index/index/docId/322</link>
      <description>Dieses Buch begleitet das gleichnamige Forschungskolloquium der Frauenbeauftragten der Otto-Friedrich-Universität Bamberg. Im Sommersemester 2008 ins Leben gerufen, bietet es seitdem jungen Wissenschaftlerinnen Gelegenheit, ihre Forschungsprojekte in der Universität unter Beteiligung der Öffentlichkeit vorzustellen und Vortragspraxis zu sammeln, sich zu vernetzen und die Vorträge zu publizieren. An der Otto-Friedrich-Universität Bamberg gedeiht eine bunte Forschungslandschaft. Nachwuchswissenschaftlerinnen zeigen als forschende Frauen in den vielfältigsten Bereichen Engagement, Tatkraft und Profil. Dieser Band beinhaltet fünf hochinteressante Beiträge aus unterschiedlichen Fächerkulturen. Zwei Untersuchungen betreffen soziologische Phänomene wie Einschulungsentscheidung aus Sicht der Eltern unter dem Aspekt von Zurückstellung und deren Definition (Wehner) bzw. den Umgang der Deutschen mit der Möglichkeit privater Altersvorsorge (Honekamp). Zwei Aufsätze kommen aus dem Bereich der Literaturwissenschaft. Während der eine der monologischen und dialogischen Subjektivität am Beispiel einer Romanfigur von Ian McEwan (Kehler) gewidmet ist, beschäftigt sich der andere mit der Identitätskonstruktion marokkanisch-sephardischer Juden in zwei Romanen von Esther Bendahan und Mois Benarroch (Liebl). Ein weiterer Beitrag beleuchtet aus psychologischer Perspektive die Dynamiken der ästhetischen Beurteilung von Konsumgütern.</description>
      <author>Franziska Wehner; Ivonne Honekamp; Barbara Kehler; Christina Liebl; Stella Faerber</author>
      <category>book</category>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 15 Dec 2011 13:42:49 +0100</pubDate>
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      <title>Second life, Avatare, Cyberwelt - Gibt es ein zweites Leben? : Bamberger Hegelwoche 2008</title>
      <link>http://opus4.kobv.de/opus4-bamberg/frontdoor/index/index/docId/321</link>
      <description>Bamberger Hegelwoche 2008. Mit Einführungen von Roland Simon-Schaefer sowie einer Podiumsdiskussion zum Thema "Identität und Religion - gibt es ein zweites Leben?" Ach, Sie sind neu hier? Dann bestimmen Sie bitte zunächst einmal Ihre Identität! Heute vielleicht mal rothaarige Medienspezialistin, reich und verliebt? – Der „Newbie“ im Multiplayer-Game kreiert sich eine Wunschversion des Ich und lädt sie hoch. Das neue Leben lebt dann zwar ein Avatar für ihn, aber immerhin. Der Traum von einem anderen Leben ist so alt wie die Menschheit. Neu sind heute die nahezu unbegrenzten Möglichkeiten der Selbstverwirklichung und Kommunikation in den virtuellen Welten des Internet. Mit bald elf Millionen registrierten Nutzern allein im 3-D-Online-Spiel Second Life ist der Cyberspace schon ziemlich voll. Steckt dahinter die Sehnsucht nach einer anderen Identität? Oder nach einer Antwort auf die großen Fragen: Wer bin ich? Und wodurch? Wie virtuell ist das wirkliche Leben geworden – und wieviel wirkliches Leben steckt im virtuellen?</description>
      <author>Dietrich Dörner; Godehard Ruppert; Monica Mayer; Roland Simon-Schaefer; Jan-Hinrik Schmidt; Wolfgang Huber</author>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 06 Dec 2011 16:27:34 +0100</pubDate>
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      <description>Vernunft - Gehirn - Computer: Was bleibt vom Menschen? : Bamberger Hegelwoche 2001</description>
      <author>Dietrich Dörner; Gerald Hüther; Manfred Spitzer; Christian Schröer; Michael Hampe</author>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 06 Dec 2011 16:17:14 +0100</pubDate>
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      <description>Das Alltagsleben in "westlichen" Ländern ist durch die fortwährenden Veränderungen der Umwelt gekennzeichnet – z. B. durch die Markteinführung neuer, innovativer Produktdesigns. Innovative oder untypische Designs durchbrechen oft die Sehgewohnheiten. Dieser Umstand führt anfänglich häufig zu einer Zurückweisung dieser Designs. Da Menschen jedoch auf neue Erfahrungen adaptieren, z.B. durch die intensive Beschäftigung mit solchen Produkten, haben die Wahrnehmung und damit auch die ästhetische Beurteilung (AEB) eine dynamische Qualität, welche zu Änderungen der AEB führt. In sechs Projekten wurde diese dynamische Qualität der AEB demonstriert, welche als Konstrukt der Variablen Attraktivität, Anregung, Interessantheit, Valenz, Langeweile und Innovativität implementiert wurde. Die Dynamiken der AEB wurden durch zwei Hauptparadigma untersucht: die Repeated Evaluation Technique (RET), welche eine tiefe Elaboration des Stimulusmaterials forciert, und das Adaptationsparadigma, welches die VersuchsteilnehmerInnen massiv innovativen oder untypischen Exemplaren aussetzt. Die Resultate aller sechs Projekte unterstützen die Hypothese, dass neue Erfahrungen Dynamiken der AEB auslösen. Diese Dynamiken werden durch das Priming semantischer Konzepte, das implementierte Stimulus-Set und situationsspezifische Effekte moderiert. Die Resultate der Projekte mit Adaptationsparadigmen unterstützen die Hypothese, dass Adaptation zu der Rekalibrierung der Norm einer Kategorie führt, wie es von dem Norm-Based-Model vorhergesagt wird. In diesem Zusammenhang wurden zwei Moderatorvariablen identifiziert: die Distanz und die Ähnlichkeit der Adaptoren zu dem getesteten Stimuli. Die Resultate demonstrieren die fortwährenden adaptiven Änderungen der AEB aufgrund von neuen Erfahrungen und unterstreichen die adaptive Natur der Wahrnehmung und der Repräsentation von Objekten.</description>
      <author>Stella J. Faerber</author>
      <category>doctoralthesis</category>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 22 Sep 2011 11:24:02 +0200</pubDate>
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      <title>A Questionnaire to Assess Affective and Cognitive Empathy in Children</title>
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      <description>Empathy measures that involve both cognitive and affective aspects of empathy are scarce. The aim of the work presented in this paper was to develop an instrument for the assessment of both aspects of dispositional empathy in children aged eight to fourteen, based on a variety of existing measures and results from the validation of a first preliminary version.</description>
      <author>Carsten Zoll; Sibylle Enz</author>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 08 Mar 2010 09:30:26 +0100</pubDate>
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      <title>Concepts and Evaluation of Psychological Models of Empathy</title>
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      <description>This paper provides an overview over contemporary empathy research, including concepts and definitions as well as descriptions of empathic processes and outcomes. Based on these theoretical foundations, three different approaches to model empathy are described: a low-level computational approach, an OCC-based approach, and an empathy model inspired by PSI, a general psychological theory of psychic functioning. Ideas on how these models could be implemented in agents are discussed and preliminary efforts to evaluate the plausibility and believability of the empathic processes and outcomes are drafted.</description>
      <author>Sibylle Enz; Carsten Zoll; Martin Diruf</author>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 28 Sep 2009 11:25:17 +0200</pubDate>
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      <title>Modellierung der Alltagsorganisation. Ein psychologisch basiertes Agentenmodell zur Erzeugung der Verkehrsnachfrage</title>
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      <description>Die Entscheidungsträger unserer Gesellschaft müssen heutzutage hoch komplexe sozio-technische Systeme managen. Dies ist nach Ansicht der Autorin nur mit Hilfe von Computersimulationsmodellen in Form von Multiagentensystemen möglich, die auf einem psychologisch validen Agentenmodell basieren. Diese These wird in dieser interdisziplinären Dissertation am Beispiel städtischer Mobilität begründet und die Notwendigkeit eines psychologisch basierten Modells der Alltagsorganisation zur Erzeugung der Verkehrsnachfrage hergeleitet. Es wird die Verwendung der PSI-Theorie von Prof. Dr. Dietrich Dörner als psychologische Basis begründet; die Theorie wird entsprechend differenziert, auf Alltagsorganisation angewendet und in Form eines Agentenmodells implementiert. Hiermit ist ein erster Schritt auf dem Weg zu einer anderen Art von Verkehrsnachfragemodellierung getan, die Verkehrsverhalten kausal und psychologisch valide auf individueller Ebene erklärt. Die Zukunft wird zeigen, ob dies hilft, die im Rahmen der klassischen Verkehrsmodellierung auftretenden Erklärungs- und Prognoseprobleme zu lösen, jedoch zeigen die Systemanalyseergebnisse mögliche Quellen für diese Probleme auf, die durch den in dieser Arbeit vorgeschlagenen Ansatz eliminiert werden.</description>
      <author>Ulrike Brüggemann</author>
      <category>doctoralthesis</category>
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