Julia F Christensen
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 3658823 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Julia F Christensen |
| PRENOMES | Julia F |
| SOBRENOME | Christensen |
| ASSINATURA | CHRISTENSEN J F |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0381-5101 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 14 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 7 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 14 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2012 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 1 |
Enculturation modulates aesthetic judgments of dance
Seasonal and other festivities with dance and music shape individuals’ aesthetic sensitivity to their cultural heritage. Yet, there is little empirical research about the influence of culture on dance perception. To fill the gap, this paper presents a pre-registered experiment with 120 participants (Iranian, English, Southeast Asian), that investigated the influence of cultural group (categorical variable) and enculturation (continuous variables)…
Aesthetic appeal of dance actions depends on expressivity, liveness and audience characteristics
Mental health in recreational and professional dancers
While recreational dancing has been associated with positive health outcomes, professional dancers tend to experience more mental health problems. Here, we studied the relationship between self-reported engagement and achievement in dance (from no involvement to high-level professional dancing) and mental health problems including work-related depressive symptoms, emotional exhaustion, and registry-based psychiatric diagnoses (major depression, a…
Enculturation-Acculturation Screening Tools for Empirical Aesthetics Research
Grouping research participants by culture or language proficiency may no longer suffice to investigate cognitive universals and differences cross-culturally, due to the interconnectedness of our multicultural world. Based on immigration psychology research, we provide a ‘proof of principle’ for three culture screening tools. Across five online experiments (total N = 440), we developed (1) The Cultural Traditions Questionnaire ( CTQ ), (2) the Art…
Mood induction through imitation of full‐body movements with different affective intentions
Theories of human emotion, including some emotion embodiment theories, suggest that our moods and affective states are reflected in the movements of our bodies. We used the reverse process for mood regulation; modulate body movements to regulate mood. Dancing is a type of full‐body movement characterized by affective expressivity and, hence, offers the possibility to express different affective states through the same movement sequences. We teste…
Multilingual semantic distance
Creativity research commonly involves recruiting human raters to judge the originality of responses to divergent thinking tasks, such as the alternate uses task (AUT). These manual scoring practices have benefited the field, but they also have limitations, including labor-intensiveness and subjectivity, which can adversely impact the reliability and validity of assessments. To address these challenges, researchers are increasingly employing autom…
The Aesthetic Responsiveness Assessment (AReA) in Farsi language
People differ in their responsiveness to aesthetic experiences.It is important to understand the role of culture in such individual differences, yet existing tools for assessing aesthetic responsiveness largely focus on North American and European cultures.We created a Persian translated and culturally adapted version of the Aesthetic Responsiveness Assessment (AReA) and evaluated its psychometric properties.Construct and internal validity were e…
Forty-Eight Classical Moral Dilemmas in Persian Language
Moral dilemmas are a useful tool to investigate empirically, which parameters of a given situation modulate participants’ moral judgment, and in what way. In an effort to provide moral judgment data from a non- WEIRD culture, we provide the translation and validation of 48 classical moral dilemmas in Persian language. The translated dilemma set was submitted to a validation experiment with N = 82 Iranian participants. The four-factor structure of…
Emotion matters
We explore dance video clip stimuli as a means to test human observers' accuracy in detecting genuine emotional expressivity in full-body movements. Stimuli of every-day-type full-body expressions of emotions usually use culturally very recognizable actions (e.g. fist shaking for anger, etc). However, expressive dance movement stimuli can be created to contain fully abstract movements. The expressivity results from subtle variations in the body m…
Is War on the Arts War on Human Psychological Systems? A View from Experimental Psychology and Affective Neuroscience
Destruction of cultural heritage and artworks e.g. by terrorist groups has significant psychological effects for individuals and communities. This article outlines how the negative psychological effects of iconoclasm and arts destruction may be rooted in the human social brain. The proposed neurocognitive mechanisms include: (1) associative learning mechanisms (memory-reward links), (2) neuroendocrine mechanisms (oxytocin and prolactin reward lin…
The Warburg Dance Movement Library—The Wadamo Library
The Warburg Dance Movement Library is a validated set of 234 video clips of dance movements for empirical research in the fields of cognitive science and neuroscience of action perception, affect perception and neuroaesthetics. The library contains two categories of video clips of dance movement sequences. Of each pair, one version of the movement sequence is emotionally expressive (Clip a), while the other version of the same sequence (Clip b) i…
Emotional valence, sense of agency and responsibility
Dance as a subject for empirical aesthetics
The purpose of this paper is to highlight the possibilities that research on dance appreciation offers empirical aesthetics, as well as the challenges it poses.Behavioral and neuroimaging approaches have, to date, mainly focused on the perception and recognition of human body movement and structure.A small number of studies, nonetheless, have explicitly taken the basic research on the perceptual, emotional and cognitive processes engaged during m…
Moral dilemmas in cognitive neuroscience of moral decision-making
Dance as a subject for empirical aesthetics
The purpose of this paper is to highlight the possibilities that research on dance appreciation offers empirical aesthetics, as well as the challenges it poses.Behavioral and neuroimaging approaches have, to date, mainly focused on the perception and recognition of human body movement and structure.A small number of studies, nonetheless, have explicitly taken the basic research on the perceptual, emotional and cognitive processes engaged during m…
The Warburg Dance Movement Library—The Wadamo Library
The Warburg Dance Movement Library is a validated set of 234 video clips of dance movements for empirical research in the fields of cognitive science and neuroscience of action perception, affect perception and neuroaesthetics. The library contains two categories of video clips of dance movement sequences. Of each pair, one version of the movement sequence is emotionally expressive (Clip a), while the other version of the same sequence (Clip b) i…
Moral dilemmas in cognitive neuroscience of moral decision-making
Dance as a subject for empirical aesthetics
The purpose of this paper is to highlight the possibilities that research on dance appreciation offers empirical aesthetics, as well as the challenges it poses.Behavioral and neuroimaging approaches have, to date, mainly focused on the perception and recognition of human body movement and structure.A small number of studies, nonetheless, have explicitly taken the basic research on the perceptual, emotional and cognitive processes engaged during m…
Emotional valence, sense of agency and responsibility
The Warburg Dance Movement Library—The Wadamo Library
The Warburg Dance Movement Library is a validated set of 234 video clips of dance movements for empirical research in the fields of cognitive science and neuroscience of action perception, affect perception and neuroaesthetics. The library contains two categories of video clips of dance movement sequences. Of each pair, one version of the movement sequence is emotionally expressive (Clip a), while the other version of the same sequence (Clip b) i…
Is War on the Arts War on Human Psychological Systems? A View from Experimental Psychology and Affective Neuroscience
Destruction of cultural heritage and artworks e.g. by terrorist groups has significant psychological effects for individuals and communities. This article outlines how the negative psychological effects of iconoclasm and arts destruction may be rooted in the human social brain. The proposed neurocognitive mechanisms include: (1) associative learning mechanisms (memory-reward links), (2) neuroendocrine mechanisms (oxytocin and prolactin reward lin…
Emotion matters
We explore dance video clip stimuli as a means to test human observers' accuracy in detecting genuine emotional expressivity in full-body movements. Stimuli of every-day-type full-body expressions of emotions usually use culturally very recognizable actions (e.g. fist shaking for anger, etc). However, expressive dance movement stimuli can be created to contain fully abstract movements. The expressivity results from subtle variations in the body m…
Forty-Eight Classical Moral Dilemmas in Persian Language
Moral dilemmas are a useful tool to investigate empirically, which parameters of a given situation modulate participants’ moral judgment, and in what way. In an effort to provide moral judgment data from a non- WEIRD culture, we provide the translation and validation of 48 classical moral dilemmas in Persian language. The translated dilemma set was submitted to a validation experiment with N = 82 Iranian participants. The four-factor structure of…
Multilingual semantic distance
Creativity research commonly involves recruiting human raters to judge the originality of responses to divergent thinking tasks, such as the alternate uses task (AUT). These manual scoring practices have benefited the field, but they also have limitations, including labor-intensiveness and subjectivity, which can adversely impact the reliability and validity of assessments. To address these challenges, researchers are increasingly employing autom…
The Aesthetic Responsiveness Assessment (AReA) in Farsi language
People differ in their responsiveness to aesthetic experiences.It is important to understand the role of culture in such individual differences, yet existing tools for assessing aesthetic responsiveness largely focus on North American and European cultures.We created a Persian translated and culturally adapted version of the Aesthetic Responsiveness Assessment (AReA) and evaluated its psychometric properties.Construct and internal validity were e…
Enculturation-Acculturation Screening Tools for Empirical Aesthetics Research
Grouping research participants by culture or language proficiency may no longer suffice to investigate cognitive universals and differences cross-culturally, due to the interconnectedness of our multicultural world. Based on immigration psychology research, we provide a ‘proof of principle’ for three culture screening tools. Across five online experiments (total N = 440), we developed (1) The Cultural Traditions Questionnaire ( CTQ ), (2) the Art…
Mood induction through imitation of full‐body movements with different affective intentions
Theories of human emotion, including some emotion embodiment theories, suggest that our moods and affective states are reflected in the movements of our bodies. We used the reverse process for mood regulation; modulate body movements to regulate mood. Dancing is a type of full‐body movement characterized by affective expressivity and, hence, offers the possibility to express different affective states through the same movement sequences. We teste…
Aesthetic appeal of dance actions depends on expressivity, liveness and audience characteristics
Mental health in recreational and professional dancers
While recreational dancing has been associated with positive health outcomes, professional dancers tend to experience more mental health problems. Here, we studied the relationship between self-reported engagement and achievement in dance (from no involvement to high-level professional dancing) and mental health problems including work-related depressive symptoms, emotional exhaustion, and registry-based psychiatric diagnoses (major depression, a…
Enculturation modulates aesthetic judgments of dance
Seasonal and other festivities with dance and music shape individuals’ aesthetic sensitivity to their cultural heritage. Yet, there is little empirical research about the influence of culture on dance perception. To fill the gap, this paper presents a pre-registered experiment with 120 participants (Iranian, English, Southeast Asian), that investigated the influence of cultural group (categorical variable) and enculturation (continuous variables)…
Psychology (10 obras) · Social Psychology (8 obras) · Action Observation and Synchronization (7 obras) · Cognitive psychology (5 obras) · Dance (5 obras) · Aesthetic Perception and Analysis (4 obras) · Neuroscience (4 obras) · Neuroscience and Music Perception (4 obras) · Aesthetics (3 obras) · Cognition (3 obras)