It’s official, I’m Dr. phil. in psychology now! You want to know what I spent my time with the last years? Here you go. My cumulative dissertation is now available as Open Access. It gives an overview of my research on an instrument for quantifying artworks on a formal pictorial level. This includes a total of 11 studies, and several publications. Read more →
All good things are worth waiting for and getting published. My study conducted in 2017 has now been published in the Creativity Research Journal after a few rounds of peer review. The study validated the Rating instrument for two-dimensional pictorial works (RizbA) on 880 drawings, paintings, and collages created by non-artists and non-professional artists. Spoiler: It works. Read more →
Out now! In 2019 I presented my research at the Inaugural International Art Therapy Practice/ Research Conference at the Queen Mary University of London organized by the British Association of Art Therapists (BAAT) and the American Art Therapy Association (AATA). It was one of the best conferences I attended and I met wonderful new international colleagues. Now the conference preceedings book is published including my chapter, for which I provide you an Open Access preprint. Read more →
Bam! My paper on RizbA and contemporary visual art is published. Funded by the Open Science Fellows Program by Wikimedia Germany, Stifterverband and Volkswagen Foundation, it’s fully Open Access and provides Open Data and Open Methodology. Go on and get it, read it and use the material for your own study. Read more →
Here comes the first pilot study on RizbA and children’s drawings! Sarah Ladegast has investigated whether different developmental stages of children’s drawing can be measured using my rating instrument for two-dimensional pictorial works (RizbA). Spoiler: They can. The study is freely available as Open Access with Open Data and Open Methodology. Read more →
My next print publication is out! In 2018 I held a workshop at the Sigmund Freud University Berlin at the congress Psychodynamics and creativity: Creative Arts Therapies in clinical fields of work. Now a conference proceedings has been published, in which you can also find my article. Read the preprint as Open Access. Read more →
For my fourth and last study within my PhD project, I am once again looking for German speaking participants, who have an academic degree related to visual arts or are studying in this field at least in their 3rd semester. As a thank you, you can win vouchers. Read more →
You like to draw or paint, but haven’t studied it? You don’t actually paint, but would like to try it out? You don’t like painting, but supporting research? Then participate and send me a picture you created! As a thank you, I am raffling two Avocadostore vouchers, each worth 20 euros, among all participants. Read more →
My colleague Johanna Masuch and her interdisciplinary study team at the geriatrics at Klinikum Nuremberg are conducting the large-scale PAINT study on the effects of art therapy. I am very happy to cooperate with Johanna. The current study uses the questionnaire I developed for image analysis and associated materials in terms of Open Methodology. Read more →
My rating instrument for two-dimensional pictorial works (RizbA) can now also be used by experts from other disciplines than the visual arts, e.g. psychologists, pedagogues and researchers. The validation study was carried out by Julia Jerusalem at the Witten/Herdecke University and is freely accessible as Open Access with Open Data. The extended questionnaire is now also freely available. Read more →
