Teaching
Teaching in the modules Einführung in die Psychologie (introductory psychology),
Allgemeine Psychologie II (general psychology – emotion & motivation),
Experimentalpsychologisches Praktikum (research methods), Human Factors II.
HT 2022:
Introduction to Psychology
- Lecture (70.101), Mondays, 11:30 – 13:00, H1 HS5
- Seminar (70.103), Mondays, 14:00 – 15:30, H1 R0205
Office hours
For an appointment, please contact me via email [email protected].
Research interests
- Emotion experience in art and entertainment
- Mixed emotions
- Empirical aesthetics
- Aesthetics of language
- Language comprehension and production
Curriculum Vitae
Since 01/2020
Seit 01/2020
10/2013–12/2019
2012–2013
2009–2012
2008
2005–2008
1998–2005
03/2002
1995–2002
Lecturer, Helmut Schmidt University, Hamburg, Germany
Visiting Researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Senior Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Senior Research Fellow at the Cluster ‘Languages of Emotion’, Project “Touching, moving, stirring”, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany
Senior Research Fellow at the Cluster ‘Languages of Emotion’, Project “Aesthetic modulation of affective valence”, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany
Research Fellow at the Institute for Psychology I, University of Leipzig, Germany
PhD in Psychology, University of Leipzig, Germany
Study in Psychology, University of Leipzig, Germany
M. A. in Philosophy, University of Leipzig, Germany
Studies in Philosophy, Psychology and Cultural Anthropology at the University of Leipzig, Germany
Publications
Schindler, I., Wagner, V., Jacobsen, T., & Menninghaus, W. (2022). Lay conceptions of “being moved” (“bewegt sein”) include a joyful and a sad type: Implications for theory and research. PLoS One, 17(10), Article e0276808. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0276808
Blohm, S., Versace, S., Methner, S., Wagner, V., Schlesewsky, M., & Menninghaus, W. (2022). Reading Poetry and Prose: Eye Movements and Acoustic Evidence. Discourse Processes, 1-25. doi:10.1080/0163853X.2021.2015188
Scharinger, M., Knoop, C. A., Wagner, V., & Menninghaus, W. (2022). Neural processing of poems and songs is based on melodic properties. Neuroimage, 257, Article 119310. doi:10.1016/j.neuroimage.2022.119310
Scharinger, M., Wagner, V., Knoop, C. A., & Menninghaus, W. (2022). Melody in poems and songs: Fundamental statistical properties predict aesthetic evaluation. Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts. Advance online publication. doi:10.1037/aca0000465
Salgaro, M., Wagner, V., & Menninghaus, W. (2021). A good, a bad, and an evil character: Who renders a novel most enjoyable? Poetics, 87, Article 101550. doi:10.1016/j.poetic.2021.101550
Beermann, U., Hosoya, G., Schindler, I., Scherer, K. R., Eid, M., Wagner, V., & Menninghaus, W. (2021). Dimensions and Clusters of Aesthetic Emotions: A Semantic Profile Analysis. Frontiers in Psychology, 12, Article 667173. doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2021.667173
Wagner, V., Scharinger, M., Knoop, C. A., & Menninghaus, W. (2021). Effects of continuous self-reporting on aesthetic evaluation and emotional responses. Poetics, 85, Article 101497. doi:10.1016/j.poetic.2020.101497
Tavano, A., Blohm, S., Knoop, C. A., Muralikrishnan, R., Scharinger, M., Wagner, V., et al. (2020). Neural harmonics reflect grammaticality. bioRxiv – The Preprint Server for Biology, Preprint. doi:10.1101/2020.04.08.031575
Menninghaus, W., Schindler, I., Wagner, V., Wassiliwizky, E., Hanich, J., Jacobsen, T., et al. (2020). Aesthetic Emotions Are a Key Factor in Aesthetic Evaluation: Reply to Skov and Nadal (2020).Psychological Review, 127(4), 650–654. doi:10.1037/rev0000213
Menninghaus, W., Wagner, V., Kegel, V., Knoop, C. A., & Schlotz, W. (2019). Beauty, elegance, grace, and sexiness compared. Plos One, 14(6), Article e0218728. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0218728
Menninghaus, W., Wagner, V., Wassiliwizky, E., Schindler, I., Hanich, J., Jacobsen, T., & Koelsch, S. (2019). What are aesthetic emotions? Psychological Review, 126(2), 171–195. doi:10.1037/rev0000135
Menninghaus, W., Wagner, V., Knoop, C. A., & Scharinger, M. (2018). Poetic speech melody: A crucial link between music and language. Plos One, 13(11), Article e0205980. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0205980
Blohm, S., Wagner, V., Schlesewsky, M., & Menninghaus, W. (2018). Sentence judgments and the grammar of poetry: Linking linguistic structure and poetic effect. Poetics, 69, 41–56. doi:10.1016/j.poetic.2018.04.005
Menninghaus, W., Wagner, V., Hanich, J., Wassiliwizky, E., Jacobsen, T., & Koelsch, S. (2017). Authors’ Response: Negative emotions in art reception: Refining theoretical assumptions and adding variables to the Distancing-embracing model. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 40, 44–51, Article e380. doi:10.1017/S0140525X17001947
Menninghaus, W., Wagner, V., Hanich, J., Wassiliwizky, E., Jacobsen, T., & Koelsch, S. (2017). The Distancing-embracing model of the enjoyment of negative emotions in art reception. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 40, Article e347. doi:10.1017/S0140525X17000309
Hosoya, G., Schindler, I., Beermann, U., Wagner, V., Menninghaus, W., Eid, M., & Scherer, K. (2017). Mapping the conceptual domain of aesthetic emotion terms: A pile-sort study. Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts, 11(4), 457–473. doi:10.1037/aca0000123
Wassiliwizky, E., Koelsch, S., Wagner, V., Jacobsen, T., & Menninghaus, W. (2017). The emotional power of poetry: Neural circuitry, psychophysiology and compositional principles. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 12(8), 1229–1240. doi:10.1093/scan/nsx069
Menninghaus, W., Wagner, V., Wassiliwizky, E., Jacobsen, T., & Knoop, C. A. (2017). The emotional and aesthetic powers of parallelistic diction. Poetics, 63, 47–59. doi:10.1016/j.poetic.2016.12.001
Schindler, I., Hosoya, G., Menninghaus, W., Beermann, U., Wagner, V., Eid, M., & Scherer, K. R. (2017). Measuring aesthetic emotions: A review of the literature and a new assessment tool. Plos One, 12(6), Article e0178899. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0178899
Knoop, C. A., Wagner, V., Jacobsen, T., & Menninghaus, W. (2016). Mapping the aesthetic space of literature from “below”. Poetics, 56, 35–49. doi:10.1016/j.poetic.2016.02.001
Wagner, V., Klein, J., Hanich, J., Shah, M., Menninghaus, W., & Jacobsen, T. (2016). Anger framed: A field study on emotion, pleasure, and art. Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts, 10(2), 134–146. doi:10.1037/aca0000029
Wassiliwizky, E., Wagner, V., Jacobsen, T., & Menninghaus, W. (2015). Art-elicited chills indicate states of being moved. Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts, 9(4), 405–416. doi:10.1037/aca0000023
Menninghaus, W., Wagner, V., Hanich, J., Wassiliwizky, E., Kuehnast, M., & Jacobsen, T. (2015). Towards a psychological construct of Being Moved. Plos One, 10(6), Article e0128451. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0128451
Kuehnast, M., Wagner, V., Wassiliwizky, E., Jacobsen, T., & Menninghaus, W. (2014). Being Moved: Linguistic representation and conceptual structure. Frontiers in Psychology, 5, Article1242. doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2014.01242
Hanich, J., Wagner, V., Shah, M., Jacobsen, T., & Menninghaus, W. (2014). Why we like to watch sad films. The pleasure of being moved in aesthetic experiences. Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts, 8(2), 130–143. doi:10.1037/a0035690
Wagner, V., Menninghaus, W., Hanich, J., & Jacobsen, T. (2014). Art schema effects on affective experience: The case of disgusting images. Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts,8(2), 120–129. doi:10.1037/a0036126
Wagner, V., Jescheniak, J. D., & Schriefers, H. (2010). On the flexibility of grammatical advance planning during sentence production: Effects of cognitive load on multiple lexical access. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 36(2), 423–440. doi:10.1037/a0018619
Jescheniak, J. D., Oppermann, F., Hantsch, A., Wagner, V., Mädebach, A., & Schriefers, H. (2009). Do perceived context pictures automatically activate their phonological code? Experimental Psychology, 56(1), 56–65. doi: 10.1027/1618-3169.56.1.56
Jescheniak, J. D., Hahne, A., Hoffmann, S., & Wagner, V. (2006). Phonological activation of category coordinates during speech planning is observable in children but not in adults: Evidence for cascaded processing. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 32(2), 373–386. doi:10.1037/0278-7393.32.3.373
Letzte Änderung: 10. November 2022