Claus-Christian Carbon
Biographic Data
| ID | 169435 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Claus-Christian Carbon |
| GIVEN NAMES | Claus-Christian |
| FAMILY NAME | Carbon |
| SIGNATURE | CARBON C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Bamberg |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3446-9347 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 24 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 24 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Exploring the Hypothetical Impact of Genetic Engineering on Ethnicity: An Analysis of a Large‐Scale Data Set Retrieved From a Museal Setting
Critics of human genetic engineering warn that if ever put into practice, this will diminish human diversity, especially regarding skin color. Nonetheless, given the solid and shameful causal link between skin color and discrimination, the provocative question is whether to manipulate this feature and create children whose stereotype‐aligning features reduce the risk of evoking hostility in the social environment. To address this possibility, we …
Art for art's sake? The influence of art framing and context on the evaluation of immoral behaviour
Artists often challenge societal norms through their artworks; hence, red lines have notoriously been crossed throughout art history. This is particularly the case since the Renaissance, when artists were emancipated from craftspeople and began challenging beholders regarding visual habits, religious, and ethical norms. Because artworks possess a special status in our society, they are processed qualitatively differently from everyday life object…
Does creating the perfect child mean enforcing or dismantling normative gender stereotypes? Evidence from an interactive virtual genetic engineering exhibit
Genetic engineering of humans is a controversial practice with unknown societal effects. Gender constitutes an important evaluative background for human behavior and traits. This manifests within action-guiding normative gender stereotypes. This study investigates to which extent these stereotypes may influence the application of genetic engineering. After highlighting potential motivations to enact stereotypes biotechnologically, we propose two …
The Relationship Between Offense-Supportive Cognitions and Childhood Trauma in Offending and Non-Offending Men with (Exclusive) Pedo-, Hebe-, and Teleiophilia Who Seek Voluntary Treatment
Ambivalence of artistic photographs stimulates interest and the motivation to engage
Factors contributing to the mental wellbeing of Afghan migrants in Iran during the Covid-19 pandemic
This study aims to explore the factors contributing mental health of Afghan migrants residing in Iran during the COVID-19 pandemic. With a deep understanding of the unique challenges encountered by migrants, especially during times of crisis, this research delves into the influential factors of experienced anxiety, social cohesion, and stress and their significant contribution to the development of depression among Afghan migrants. The study incl…
Adapting Ourselves, Instead of the Environment: An Inquiry into Human Enhancement for Function and Beyond
Technology enables humans not only to adapt their environment to their needs but also to modify themselves. Means of Human Enhancement — embodied technologies to improve the human body’s capabilities or to create a new one — are the designated means of adapting ourselves instead of the environment. The debate about these technologies is typically fought on ethical soil. However, alarmist, utopian, and science fiction scenarios distract from the f…
On the Semantics of Selfies (SoS)
Selfies are taken to communicate about mental conditions, aims, loves, and commitments. Until now, we lack a unified nomenclature or established classification system for selfies. We can retrieve information about the different types of selfies from various indicators. Most commonly, this is done by analyzing metatags, hashtags, or the linked message of the respective post. Alternatively, we can categorize the depicted selfie's subject or analyze…
Successful clusters through successful communication: Why clusters should be managed by Place Leaders
Communication is critical in a wide variety of fields. Successful intra-organizational communication plays a significant role in building trust by creating an environment that empowers leaders to lead effectively, motivates employees to work, and thus contributes to organizational performance. In the context of cluster management, communication within the cluster, especially between the cluster leadership and the often vast number of cluster memb…
Under the sun: Adaptation effects to changes in facial complexion
It seems that we are updating our facial representations in memory quite quickly (i.e., optimizing our processing through adaptation) and seem to sustain those new representations over a certain timespan (at least 5 min). Our results demonstrate that changes in complexion draw our attention for deeper analysis (at least with decreased complexion). However, it loses its informative quality quickly via fast and relatively sustainable adaptation
Change not State: Perceptual coupling in multistable displays reflects transient bias induced by perceptual change
We investigated how changes in dynamic spatial context influence visual perception. Specifically, we reexamined the perceptual coupling phenomenon when two multistable displays viewed simultaneously tend to be in the same dominant state and switch in accord. Current models assume this interaction reflecting mutual bias produced by a dominant perceptual state. In contrast, we demonstrate that influence of spatial context is strongest when percepti…
The relationship between citations and the linguistic traits of specific academic discourse communities identified by using social network analysis
For a research article (RA) to be accepted, not only for publication, but also by its readers, it must display proficiency in the content, methodologies and discourse conventions of its specific discipline. While numerous studies have investigated the linguistic characteristics of different research disciplines, none have utilised Social Network Analysis techniques to identify communities prior to analysing their language use. This study aims to …
Seeking (dis)order: Ordering appeals but slight disorder and complex order trigger interest
Wearing Face Masks Strongly Confuses Counterparts in Reading Emotions
Wearing face masks is one of the essential means to prevent the transmission of certain respiratory diseases such as COVID-19. Although acceptance of such masks is increasing in the Western hemisphere, many people feel that social interaction is affected by wearing a mask. In the present experiment, we tested the impact of face masks on the readability of emotions. The participants (N=41, calculated by an a priori power test; random sample; healt…
I like how it looks but it is not beautiful: Sensory appeal beyond beauty
Patience in Everyday Life: Three Field Studies in France, Germany, and Romania
Patience is a highly relevant virtue in daily life. Yet patience has not yet been studied systematically across cultures. The aim of this study is to investigate three competing hypotheses. Based on the pace-of-life hypothesis, individuals that reside in countries with slower paces of life will be most patient. Based on the self-regulation hypothesis, countries with a strong emphasis on self-regulation will be most patient. Based on the situation…
Acoustic Gestalt: On the perceptibility of melodic symmetry
The important role of symmetry perception in the visual domain has been well documented in a large number of studies. Less clear, however, is its effect and potential role as a Gestalt grouping principle in the audio domain. We investigated the perceptibility of melodic symmetry using a series of algorithmically generated sonifications. Twenty-eight naïve participants were presented with a series of nine symmetrical sonifications, nine partially …
Investigating emotional responses to self-selected sad music via self-report and automated facial analysis
People often listen to sad music in spite of its seemingly negative qualities. Sad music, and especially sad music with a personal significance, has been shown to evoke a wide span of emotions with both positive and negative qualities. We compared emotional responses to familiar self-selected sad music (SSSM) with both unfamiliar sad and unfamiliar happy music. Alongside self-reports, a commercial, continuous measure of discrete facial expression…
On the Nature of the Background Behind Mona Lisa
One of the many questions surrounding Leonardo’s Mona Lisa concerns the landscape visible in the portrait’s background: Does it depict an imagination of Leonardo’s mind, a real world landscape or the motif of a plane canvas that hung in Leonardo’s studio, behind the sitter? By analyzing divergences between the Mona Lisa and her Prado double that was painted in parallel but from another perspective the authors found mathematical evidence for the m…
What’s Wrong with an Art Fake? Cognitive and Emotional Variables Influenced by Authenticity Status of Artworks
What’s wrong with art fakes? The authors tested effects of art “forgery” on aesthetic appreciation and the perceived quality of paintings in a multidimensional manner comprising cognitive and emotional variables: When naïve participants were exposed to replicas of works by renowned artists, information about the alleged authenticity status had a major effect on the perceived quality of the painting, and even on artist-associated values such as th…
Give Me Gestalt! Preference for Cubist Artworks Revealing High Detectability of Objects
In cubist paintings by Picasso, Braque and Gris it is possible to detect everyday objects like guitars, bottles or jugs, although they are often difficult to decipher. In this art-science collaborative study the authors found that participants without expertise in cubism appreciated cubist artworks more if they were able to detect concealed objects in them. The finding of this strong correlation between detectability and preference offers wide im…
Aesthetic appraisal of product designs: Independent effects of typicality and arousal
Theories differ on how typicality and arousal influence aesthetic appraisal and whether these processes together interact or have independent effects on aesthetic appraisal. This research investigates the simultaneous effects of typicality and arousal on aesthetic appraisal for product designs by manipulating both processes separately: typicality by prototype deviation and arousal by colour saturation levels. We demonstrate that typicality has a …
Cognitive Continental Drift: How Attitudes Can Change the Overall Pattern of Cognitive Distances
By the late Carboniferous period, the continents that today make up North America and Europe collided with the southern parts of Gondwana to form the western half of the last super-continent Pangea. From this moment on, North America and Europe have steadily been drifting apart, as was initially described by Alfred Wegener in 1915. In this paper a cognitive counterpart of this continental drift is described-which progresses much faster than the p…
Face-specific configural processing of relational information
Face processing relies on configural processing, which is thought to be particularly disrupted by inversion. We compared inversion effects in recognition experiments for three types of stimuli, using faces (Experiment 1) and houses (Experiment 2). Stimuli varied by their colour only (colour), by the spatial relations between components (relational), or by the components themselves (eyes, mouths, doors). For faces, relational versions revealed str…
Aesthetic appraisal of product designs: Independent effects of typicality and arousal
Theories differ on how typicality and arousal influence aesthetic appraisal and whether these processes together interact or have independent effects on aesthetic appraisal. This research investigates the simultaneous effects of typicality and arousal on aesthetic appraisal for product designs by manipulating both processes separately: typicality by prototype deviation and arousal by colour saturation levels. We demonstrate that typicality has a …
Adapting Ourselves, Instead of the Environment: An Inquiry into Human Enhancement for Function and Beyond
Technology enables humans not only to adapt their environment to their needs but also to modify themselves. Means of Human Enhancement — embodied technologies to improve the human body’s capabilities or to create a new one — are the designated means of adapting ourselves instead of the environment. The debate about these technologies is typically fought on ethical soil. However, alarmist, utopian, and science fiction scenarios distract from the f…
I like how it looks but it is not beautiful: Sensory appeal beyond beauty
What’s Wrong with an Art Fake? Cognitive and Emotional Variables Influenced by Authenticity Status of Artworks
What’s wrong with art fakes? The authors tested effects of art “forgery” on aesthetic appreciation and the perceived quality of paintings in a multidimensional manner comprising cognitive and emotional variables: When naïve participants were exposed to replicas of works by renowned artists, information about the alleged authenticity status had a major effect on the perceived quality of the painting, and even on artist-associated values such as th…
Give Me Gestalt! Preference for Cubist Artworks Revealing High Detectability of Objects
In cubist paintings by Picasso, Braque and Gris it is possible to detect everyday objects like guitars, bottles or jugs, although they are often difficult to decipher. In this art-science collaborative study the authors found that participants without expertise in cubism appreciated cubist artworks more if they were able to detect concealed objects in them. The finding of this strong correlation between detectability and preference offers wide im…
Face-specific configural processing of relational information
Face processing relies on configural processing, which is thought to be particularly disrupted by inversion. We compared inversion effects in recognition experiments for three types of stimuli, using faces (Experiment 1) and houses (Experiment 2). Stimuli varied by their colour only (colour), by the spatial relations between components (relational), or by the components themselves (eyes, mouths, doors). For faces, relational versions revealed str…
Face-specific configural processing of relational information
Face processing relies on configural processing, which is thought to be particularly disrupted by inversion. We compared inversion effects in recognition experiments for three types of stimuli, using faces (Experiment 1) and houses (Experiment 2). Stimuli varied by their colour only (colour), by the spatial relations between components (relational), or by the components themselves (eyes, mouths, doors). For faces, relational versions revealed str…
Cognitive Continental Drift: How Attitudes Can Change the Overall Pattern of Cognitive Distances
By the late Carboniferous period, the continents that today make up North America and Europe collided with the southern parts of Gondwana to form the western half of the last super-continent Pangea. From this moment on, North America and Europe have steadily been drifting apart, as was initially described by Alfred Wegener in 1915. In this paper a cognitive counterpart of this continental drift is described-which progresses much faster than the p…
Aesthetic appraisal of product designs: Independent effects of typicality and arousal
Theories differ on how typicality and arousal influence aesthetic appraisal and whether these processes together interact or have independent effects on aesthetic appraisal. This research investigates the simultaneous effects of typicality and arousal on aesthetic appraisal for product designs by manipulating both processes separately: typicality by prototype deviation and arousal by colour saturation levels. We demonstrate that typicality has a …
Give Me Gestalt! Preference for Cubist Artworks Revealing High Detectability of Objects
In cubist paintings by Picasso, Braque and Gris it is possible to detect everyday objects like guitars, bottles or jugs, although they are often difficult to decipher. In this art-science collaborative study the authors found that participants without expertise in cubism appreciated cubist artworks more if they were able to detect concealed objects in them. The finding of this strong correlation between detectability and preference offers wide im…
What’s Wrong with an Art Fake? Cognitive and Emotional Variables Influenced by Authenticity Status of Artworks
What’s wrong with art fakes? The authors tested effects of art “forgery” on aesthetic appreciation and the perceived quality of paintings in a multidimensional manner comprising cognitive and emotional variables: When naïve participants were exposed to replicas of works by renowned artists, information about the alleged authenticity status had a major effect on the perceived quality of the painting, and even on artist-associated values such as th…
Investigating emotional responses to self-selected sad music via self-report and automated facial analysis
People often listen to sad music in spite of its seemingly negative qualities. Sad music, and especially sad music with a personal significance, has been shown to evoke a wide span of emotions with both positive and negative qualities. We compared emotional responses to familiar self-selected sad music (SSSM) with both unfamiliar sad and unfamiliar happy music. Alongside self-reports, a commercial, continuous measure of discrete facial expression…
On the Nature of the Background Behind Mona Lisa
One of the many questions surrounding Leonardo’s Mona Lisa concerns the landscape visible in the portrait’s background: Does it depict an imagination of Leonardo’s mind, a real world landscape or the motif of a plane canvas that hung in Leonardo’s studio, behind the sitter? By analyzing divergences between the Mona Lisa and her Prado double that was painted in parallel but from another perspective the authors found mathematical evidence for the m…
Acoustic Gestalt: On the perceptibility of melodic symmetry
The important role of symmetry perception in the visual domain has been well documented in a large number of studies. Less clear, however, is its effect and potential role as a Gestalt grouping principle in the audio domain. We investigated the perceptibility of melodic symmetry using a series of algorithmically generated sonifications. Twenty-eight naïve participants were presented with a series of nine symmetrical sonifications, nine partially …
Patience in Everyday Life: Three Field Studies in France, Germany, and Romania
Patience is a highly relevant virtue in daily life. Yet patience has not yet been studied systematically across cultures. The aim of this study is to investigate three competing hypotheses. Based on the pace-of-life hypothesis, individuals that reside in countries with slower paces of life will be most patient. Based on the self-regulation hypothesis, countries with a strong emphasis on self-regulation will be most patient. Based on the situation…
Wearing Face Masks Strongly Confuses Counterparts in Reading Emotions
Wearing face masks is one of the essential means to prevent the transmission of certain respiratory diseases such as COVID-19. Although acceptance of such masks is increasing in the Western hemisphere, many people feel that social interaction is affected by wearing a mask. In the present experiment, we tested the impact of face masks on the readability of emotions. The participants (N=41, calculated by an a priori power test; random sample; healt…
I like how it looks but it is not beautiful: Sensory appeal beyond beauty
Seeking (dis)order: Ordering appeals but slight disorder and complex order trigger interest
Change not State: Perceptual coupling in multistable displays reflects transient bias induced by perceptual change
We investigated how changes in dynamic spatial context influence visual perception. Specifically, we reexamined the perceptual coupling phenomenon when two multistable displays viewed simultaneously tend to be in the same dominant state and switch in accord. Current models assume this interaction reflecting mutual bias produced by a dominant perceptual state. In contrast, we demonstrate that influence of spatial context is strongest when percepti…
The relationship between citations and the linguistic traits of specific academic discourse communities identified by using social network analysis
For a research article (RA) to be accepted, not only for publication, but also by its readers, it must display proficiency in the content, methodologies and discourse conventions of its specific discipline. While numerous studies have investigated the linguistic characteristics of different research disciplines, none have utilised Social Network Analysis techniques to identify communities prior to analysing their language use. This study aims to …
On the Semantics of Selfies (SoS)
Selfies are taken to communicate about mental conditions, aims, loves, and commitments. Until now, we lack a unified nomenclature or established classification system for selfies. We can retrieve information about the different types of selfies from various indicators. Most commonly, this is done by analyzing metatags, hashtags, or the linked message of the respective post. Alternatively, we can categorize the depicted selfie's subject or analyze…
Successful clusters through successful communication: Why clusters should be managed by Place Leaders
Communication is critical in a wide variety of fields. Successful intra-organizational communication plays a significant role in building trust by creating an environment that empowers leaders to lead effectively, motivates employees to work, and thus contributes to organizational performance. In the context of cluster management, communication within the cluster, especially between the cluster leadership and the often vast number of cluster memb…
Under the sun: Adaptation effects to changes in facial complexion
It seems that we are updating our facial representations in memory quite quickly (i.e., optimizing our processing through adaptation) and seem to sustain those new representations over a certain timespan (at least 5 min). Our results demonstrate that changes in complexion draw our attention for deeper analysis (at least with decreased complexion). However, it loses its informative quality quickly via fast and relatively sustainable adaptation
Ambivalence of artistic photographs stimulates interest and the motivation to engage
Factors contributing to the mental wellbeing of Afghan migrants in Iran during the Covid-19 pandemic
This study aims to explore the factors contributing mental health of Afghan migrants residing in Iran during the COVID-19 pandemic. With a deep understanding of the unique challenges encountered by migrants, especially during times of crisis, this research delves into the influential factors of experienced anxiety, social cohesion, and stress and their significant contribution to the development of depression among Afghan migrants. The study incl…
Adapting Ourselves, Instead of the Environment: An Inquiry into Human Enhancement for Function and Beyond
Technology enables humans not only to adapt their environment to their needs but also to modify themselves. Means of Human Enhancement — embodied technologies to improve the human body’s capabilities or to create a new one — are the designated means of adapting ourselves instead of the environment. The debate about these technologies is typically fought on ethical soil. However, alarmist, utopian, and science fiction scenarios distract from the f…
Art for art's sake? The influence of art framing and context on the evaluation of immoral behaviour
Artists often challenge societal norms through their artworks; hence, red lines have notoriously been crossed throughout art history. This is particularly the case since the Renaissance, when artists were emancipated from craftspeople and began challenging beholders regarding visual habits, religious, and ethical norms. Because artworks possess a special status in our society, they are processed qualitatively differently from everyday life object…
Does creating the perfect child mean enforcing or dismantling normative gender stereotypes? Evidence from an interactive virtual genetic engineering exhibit
Genetic engineering of humans is a controversial practice with unknown societal effects. Gender constitutes an important evaluative background for human behavior and traits. This manifests within action-guiding normative gender stereotypes. This study investigates to which extent these stereotypes may influence the application of genetic engineering. After highlighting potential motivations to enact stereotypes biotechnologically, we propose two …
The Relationship Between Offense-Supportive Cognitions and Childhood Trauma in Offending and Non-Offending Men with (Exclusive) Pedo-, Hebe-, and Teleiophilia Who Seek Voluntary Treatment
Exploring the Hypothetical Impact of Genetic Engineering on Ethnicity: An Analysis of a Large‐Scale Data Set Retrieved From a Museal Setting
Critics of human genetic engineering warn that if ever put into practice, this will diminish human diversity, especially regarding skin color. Nonetheless, given the solid and shameful causal link between skin color and discrimination, the provocative question is whether to manipulate this feature and create children whose stereotype‐aligning features reduce the risk of evoking hostility in the social environment. To address this possibility, we …
Psychology (22 works) · Social Psychology (11 works) · Computer Science (10 works) · Aesthetic Perception and Analysis (9 works) · Cognitive psychology (9 works) · Communication (6 works) · Aesthetics (5 works) · Art (5 works) · Physics (5 works) · Social Psychology (5 works)