Research Interests

Nonverbal Communication

Super-normal stimuli as aesthetic phenomena. Head canting behavior in portraits along art history. Aesthetical evaluation of different photographic shot type (close-up, portrait, half-figure, whole figure). Social inhibition in embarrassment display. Facial attractiveness.

Psychology of Music

Emotional connotations of musical intervals. Statistical occurrence of different melodic intervals and emotional expression in music. Melodic contour in vocal expression of emotions.

Psychophysiology

Attentional and memory deficits in chronic hypotensives assessed by startle reflex and contingent negative variation. Gender differences and discrepancies between subjective rating and physiological responses (startle reflex, evoked potential) in physical attractiveness.

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