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Claus-Christian Carbon

Claus-Christian Carbon

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Psychology

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48
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8112
World Ranking
5979
National Ranking
284

Overview

Claus-Christian Carbon is affiliated with the University of Bamberg in Germany. Their research spans across the fields of neuroscience and psychology, with a particular focus on cognitive neuroscience, experimental and cognitive psychology, social psychology, sociology and political science, and clinical psychology.

Their scientific work addresses a range of topics, including:

  • Aesthetic Perception and Analysis
  • Face Recognition and Perception
  • Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior
  • Visual perception and processing mechanisms
  • Neural dynamics and brain function
  • Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment
  • Creativity in Education and Neuroscience

Carbon has contributed extensively to various academic journals, frequently publishing in:

  • i-Perception
  • Frontiers in Psychology
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Journal of Vision
  • Attention Perception & Psychophysics

Recent papers from Carbon include:

  • "Wearing Face Masks Strongly Confuses Counterparts in Reading Emotions," 2020, Frontiers in Psychology
  • "The Impact of Face Masks on the Emotional Reading Abilities of Children-A Lesson From a Joint School-University Project," 2021, i-Perception
  • "About the Acceptance of Wearing Face Masks in Times of a Pandemic," 2021, i-Perception

Frequent collaborators in their research efforts are:

  • Niklas Alexander Döbler
  • Alexander Pastukhov
  • Sandra Utz
  • Fatemeh Khozaei
  • Ronja Mueller

Carbon's scholarly contributions primarily reside at the intersection of psychological and neuroscientific approaches, often exploring perception, emotional judgment, and social cognition. Their work on face masks and emotional perception is notable within the ongoing study of social communication under pandemic conditions.

Best Publications

  • Wearing Face Masks Strongly Confuses Counterparts in Reading Emotions

    Claus Christian Carbon

  • Entitling art: Influence of title information on understanding and appreciation of paintings.

    Helmut Leder;Claus-Christian Carbon;Ai-Leen Ripsas

  • The Aesthetic Aha: On the pleasure of having insights into Gestalt

    Claudia Muth;Claus-Christian Carbon

  • Dimensions in appreciation of car interior design

    Helmut Leder;Helmut Leder;Claus-Christian Carbon;Claus-Christian Carbon

  • Cognitive Fluency: High-Level Processing Dynamics in Art Appreciation

    Benno Belke;Helmut Leder;Tilo Strobach;Claus-Christian Carbon

  • Aesthetic appraisal of product designs: Independent effects of typicality and arousal

    Janneke Blijlevens;Claus-Christian Carbon;Ruth Mugge;Jan P. L. Schoormans

  • The Repeated Evaluation Technique (RET). A method to capture dynamic effects of innovativeness and attractiveness

    Claus-Christian Carbon;Claus-Christian Carbon;Helmut Leder

  • The cycle of preference: Long-term dynamics of aesthetic appreciation

    Claus-Christian Carbon

  • Face-specific configural processing of relational information.

    Helmut Leder;Claus-Christian Carbon;Claus-Christian Carbon

  • Neural and genetic foundations of face recognition and prosopagnosia

    Thomas Grüter;Martina Grüter;Claus-Christian Carbon

  • All is beautiful? Generality vs. specificity of word usage in visual aesthetics.

    M. Dorothee Augustin;Johan Wagemans;Claus-Christian Carbon

  • Understanding human perception by human-made illusions

    Claus-Christian Carbon

  • Consumer expectations for vegetables with typical and atypical colors: The case of carrots

    Hendrik N.J. Schifferstein;Theresa Wehrle;Claus-Christian Carbon

  • Style follows content: on the microgenesis of art perception.

    M. Dorothee Augustin;Helmut Leder;Florian Hutzler;Claus Christian Carbon

  • The Impact of Peer Mentoring on Mentee Academic Performance: Is Any Mentoring Style Better than No Mentoring at All?.

    Birgit Leidenfrost;Barbara Strassnig;Marlene Schütz;Philipps-University Marburg

  • The Appeal of Challenge in the Perception of Art: How Ambiguity, Solvability of Ambiguity, and the Opportunity for Insight Affect Appreciation

    Claudia Muth;Vera M. Hesslinger;Claus-Christian Carbon

  • Peer Mentoring Styles and Their Contribution to Academic Success Among Mentees: A Person-Oriented Study in Higher Education

    Birgit Leidenfrost;Barbara Strassnig;Alfred Schabmann;Christiane Spiel

  • Art perception in the museum: How we spend time and space in art exhibitions.

    Claus-Christian Carbon

  • When context hinders! Learn–test compatibility in face recognition

    Helmut Leder;Claus-Christian Carbon

  • Expert face processing: specialisation and constraints

    Adrian Schwaninger;Claus-Christian Carbon;Helmut Leder

  • Neural and genetic foundations of face recognition and prosopagnosia

    Claus-Christian Carbon;Martina Grueter;Thomas Grueter

Frequent Co-Authors

Helmut Leder
Helmut Leder University of Vienna
Zaira Cattaneo
Zaira Cattaneo University of Milano-Bicocca
Tomaso Vecchi
Tomaso Vecchi University of Pavia
Bernhard Fink
Bernhard Fink University of Vienna
Todd K. Shackelford
Todd K. Shackelford Oakland University
Juha Silvanto
Juha Silvanto University of Surrey
Karl Grammer
Karl Grammer University of Vienna
Astrid Schütz
Astrid Schütz University of Bamberg
Stefan R. Schweinberger
Stefan R. Schweinberger Friedrich Schiller University Jena

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