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Department of General Psychology and Methodology

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  3. Human Sciences and Education
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  5. Psychology
  6. Department of General Psychology and Methodology
  7. Academic Staff
  8. Vera M. Hesslinger

Vera M. Hesslinger (PhD)

Contact info

Otto-Friedrich-Universit?t Bamberg
Lehrstuhl für Allgemeine 188bet亚洲体育备用_188体育平台-投注*官网 und Methodenlehre
Markusplatz 3
96047 Bamberg

Phone: +49 (0)951 863-1961
vera.hesslinger(at)uni-bamberg.de

Office: M3/219
Consultation hours: by appointment (via e-mail)

Teaching (Summer 2023)

Seminar: Observation exercises (BSc Psychology)

Academic Research

  • Perception and Experience of Art
  • Effects of Observation on Behaviour
  • Social Perception
  • Cognitive Maps

PhD

Vera Hesslinger received her PhD at the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (Experimental Psychology). Supervisor: Univ.-Prof. Dr. Heiko Hecht

Scientific Papers (peer-reviewed)

Carbon, C. C., Utz, S., & Hesslinger, V. M. (2022). Less is More: Perception as a fun way to Rich Minimalism. I-Perception, 13(2), 1-5. {IF=1.588}

Muth, C., Hesslinger, V. M., & Carbon, C. C. (2018). Variants of Semantic Instability (SeIns) in the arts. A classification study based on experiential reports. Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts, 12(1), 11-23. {IF=2.224}

Hesslinger, V. M., Carbon, C. C., & Hecht, H. (2017). The sense of being watched is modulated by arousal and duration of the perceptual episode. i-Perception, 8(6), 1-11. {IF=1.051}

Hesslinger, V. M., Carbon, C. C., & Hecht, H. (2017). Social factors in aesthetics: Social conformity pressure and a sense of being watched affect aesthetic judgments. i-Perception, 8, 1-16. {IF=1.051}

Hesslinger, V. M. & Carbon, C. C. (2016). #TheDress: The role of illumination information and individual differences in the psychophysics of perceiving white‐blue ambiguities. i-Perception, 7(2), 1-10. {IF=1.831}

Hesslinger, V. M., Goldbach, L., & Carbon, C. C. (2015). Men in red: A reexamination of the red-attractiveness effect. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 22(4), 1142-1148. {IF=2.986}

Carbon, C. C., & Hesslinger, V. M. (2015). Restoring depth to Leonardo’s Mona Lisa. Was La Gioconda the model for one of the world’s earliest attempts at three-dimensional imaging? American Scientist, 103(6), 404-409. {IF=0.556}

Muth, C., Hesslinger, V. M., &  Carbon, C. C. (2015). The Appeal of Challenge in the Perception of Art: How Ambiguity, Solvability of Ambiguity and the Opportunity for Insight Affect Appreciation. Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts. {IF= 1.787}

Carbon, C. C. & Hesslinger, V. M. (2015). Stable aesthetic standards delusion: Changing “artistic quality” by elaboration. Perception, 43(9), 1006-1013. {IF=1.311}

Carbon, C. C. & Hesslinger, V. M. (2015). On the nature of the background behind Mona Lisa. Leonardo, 48(2), 182-184. {IF=n.a.}

Carbon, C. C., & Hesslinger, V. M. (2013). Da Vinci’s Mona Lisa entering the next dimension. Perception, 42(8), 887-893. {IF=1.311}

Carbon, C. C., & Hesslinger, V. M. (2013). Attitudes and cognitive distances: On the non-unitary and flexible nature of cognitive maps. Advances in Cognitive Psychology, 9(3), 121-129. {IF=n.a.}

Carbon, C. C., & Hesslinger, V. M. (2013). Navigating through a volumetric world does not imply needing a full 3D-representation. Behavioral Brain Sciences, 36, 547-548 {IF=25.056}

Carbon, C. C., & Hesslinger, V. M. (2011). Bateson et al.’s (2006) Cues-of-being-watched paradigm revisited. Swiss Journal of Psychology, 70(4), 203-210. {IF=1.024}

Abstract publications

Carbon, C. C. & Hesslinger, V. M. (2019). Experiencing ASMR: About the phenomenology of video sequences that trigger excitement and subsequent relaxation. Perception, 48(S2), 97-97.

Hesslinger, V. M., & Carbon, C. C. (2015). Testing several hypotheses for dissociate colour perception on #TheDress. Perception, 44(S1), 148-148.

Carbon, C. C. & Hesslinger (2014). Analyzing artworks by means of vision sciences: the case of two Mona Lisas generating a stereogram. Perception, 43(S), 9-9.

Hesslinger, V., & Carbon, C. C. (2014). Red card for red: Questioning the positive effect of the colour red on male attractiveness. Perception, 43(S), 156-156.

Hesslinger, V. M., & Carbon, C. (2013). Who is the best Gioconda of them all? On the relativity of artistic quality caused by prior visual elaboration. Perception, 42(S), 103-103.

López Hernan Perez, T., Carbon, C. C., & Hesslinger, V. (2012). High-level color adaptation for familiar objects. Perception, 41(S), 184-184.

Harsanyi, G., Raab, M., Hesslinger, V., Düclos, D., Zink, J., & Carbon, C. C. (2012). The face of terrorism: Stereotypical Muslim facial attributes evoke implicit perception of threat. Perception, 41(S), 111-111.

Luedtke, R. A., Hesslinger, V. M., & Carbon, C. C. (2012). Different facets of facial attractiveness: Specification of the relationship between attractiveness, beauty, prettiness and sexual attraction. Perception, 41(S), 116-116.

Hesslinger, V. M., & G?rlitz, R., & Carbon, C. C. (2012). What 80 Lisas can reveal about Leonardo’s Mona Lisa: One step further in demystifying La Gioconda’s absorbing smile. Perception, 41(S), 232-232.

Hesslinger, V., & Carbon, C. C. (2011). Dynamics in aesthetic appreciation: Differential effects for average and non-average natural stimuli. Perception, 40(S), 222-222 {IF=1.293}

Hesslinger, V., & Carbon, C. C. (2010). Cues of being watched enhance pro-social attitudes. Perception, 39(S), 93-93 {IF=1.360}.

Further scientific contributions

Müller, T. E., & Hesslinger, V. M. (2022). Lack or abundance? A cross-cultural study on the perception of emptiness in simple architectural spaces. Poster presentation at the 8th Visual Science of Art Conference (VSAC), Amsterdam/Netherlands (24.08.-27.08.2022).

Hesslinger, V. M., Pieper, L. K., & Carbon, C. C. (2022). Greater than the sum of its components: Exploring differences in analytic and synthetic art perception. Poster presentation at the 8th Visual Science of Art Conference (VSAC), Amsterdam/Netherlands (24.08.-27.08.2022).

Pieper, L. K., Hesslinger, V. M., & Carbon, C. C. (2022). Two sides of Fechner’s Medal – Investigating differences in the experience of design objects depending on personal narratives vs formal descriptions. Poster presentation at the 8th Visual Science of Art Conference (VSAC), Amsterdam/Netherlands (24.08.-27.08.2022).

Carbon, C. C., & Hesslinger, V. M. (2016). How we can solidly solve a couple of so-called “mysteries” of the Mona Lisa by means of psychological methodology. Invited address at the 31st International Congress of Psychology (ICP), Yokohama/Japan (24.07.-29.07.2016).

Muth, C., Hesslinger, V. M. & Carbon, C. C. (2015). Unsolvable, yet insightful: The appeal of indeterminate and ambiguous artworks. Poster presentation at the 38th European Conference on Visual Perception (ECVP), Liverpool/England (23.08.-27.08.2015).

Luedtke, R. A., Hesslinger, V. M., &Carbon, C. C. (2013). Attractiveness, beauty, prettiness and sexual attraction as different facets of facial attractiveness, 55.Tagung experimentell arbeitender Psychologen (TEAP), Vienna/Austria (24.03.2013-27.03.2013).

Harsanyi, H., Raab, M., Hesslinger, V. M., Düclos, D., Zink, J., & Carbon, C. C. (2013). Osama bin Laden is still alive – An implicit profile of disfavor against faces with stereotypical Muslim attributes, 55.Tagung experimentell arbeitender Psychologen (TEAP), Vienna/Austria (24.03.2013-27.03.2013).