Michael Forster

1.3k total citations
24 papers, 837 citations indexed

About

Michael Forster is a scholar working on Cognitive Neuroscience, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology and Social Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Michael Forster has authored 24 papers receiving a total of 837 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 22 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience, 12 papers in Experimental and Cognitive Psychology and 9 papers in Social Psychology. Recurrent topics in Michael Forster's work include Aesthetic Perception and Analysis (21 papers), Olfactory and Sensory Function Studies (8 papers) and Color perception and design (7 papers). Michael Forster is often cited by papers focused on Aesthetic Perception and Analysis (21 papers), Olfactory and Sensory Function Studies (8 papers) and Color perception and design (7 papers). Michael Forster collaborates with scholars based in Austria, Germany and Russia. Michael Forster's co-authors include Helmut Leder, Matthew Pelowski, Gernot Gerger, Patrick S. Markey, Ulrich Ansorge, Eva Specker, Pablo P. L. Tinio, Hanna Brinkmann, Raphaël Rosenberg and Matthias Gondan and has published in prestigious journals such as PLoS ONE, Frontiers in Psychology and Emotion.

In The Last Decade

Michael Forster

24 papers receiving 813 citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Michael Forster Austria 13 692 450 289 186 116 24 837
Gernot Gerger Austria 15 885 1.3× 582 1.3× 392 1.4× 245 1.3× 185 1.6× 28 1.1k
Pablo P. L. Tinio United States 17 773 1.1× 538 1.2× 415 1.4× 212 1.1× 130 1.1× 28 1.1k
Eva Specker Austria 15 448 0.6× 240 0.5× 226 0.8× 129 0.7× 91 0.8× 36 703
Raphaël Rosenberg Austria 13 508 0.7× 307 0.7× 242 0.8× 156 0.8× 73 0.6× 36 666
G. Gabrielle Starr United States 11 583 0.8× 390 0.9× 234 0.8× 216 1.2× 49 0.4× 27 739
Kamil K. Imbir Poland 17 508 0.7× 330 0.7× 371 1.3× 42 0.2× 31 0.3× 65 850
Manuela M. Marin Austria 14 509 0.7× 314 0.7× 204 0.7× 55 0.3× 13 0.1× 23 639
Kirill Fayn Australia 11 216 0.3× 216 0.5× 180 0.6× 31 0.2× 24 0.2× 17 502
Isabel C. Bohrn Germany 10 487 0.7× 502 1.1× 260 0.9× 68 0.4× 9 0.1× 10 766
Hauke Egermann United Kingdom 17 605 0.9× 206 0.5× 259 0.9× 16 0.1× 16 0.1× 50 819

Countries citing papers authored by Michael Forster

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Fields of papers citing papers by Michael Forster

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Michael Forster

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All Works

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Specker, Eva, Michael Forster, Hanna Brinkmann, et al.. (2020). Warm, lively, rough? Assessing agreement on aesthetic effects of artworks. PLoS ONE. 15(5). e0232083–e0232083. 22 indexed citations
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Specker, Eva, Michael Forster, Hanna Brinkmann, et al.. (2018). The Vienna Art Interest and Art Knowledge Questionnaire (VAIAK): A unified and validated measure of art interest and art knowledge.. Psychology of Aesthetics Creativity and the Arts. 14(2). 172–185. 80 indexed citations
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Pietschnig, Jakob, Georg Gittler, Stefan Stieger, et al.. (2018). Indirect (implicit) and direct (explicit) self-esteem measures are virtually unrelated: A meta-analysis of the initial preference task. PLoS ONE. 13(9). e0202873–e0202873. 8 indexed citations
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Pelowski, Matthew, Patrick S. Markey, Michael Forster, Gernot Gerger, & Helmut Leder. (2017). What do we actually hope to accomplish by modeling art experience?. Physics of Life Reviews. 21. 159–170. 2 indexed citations
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Leder, Helmut, et al.. (2017). Face inversion increases attractiveness. Acta Psychologica. 178. 25–31. 20 indexed citations
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Pelowski, Matthew, Patrick S. Markey, Michael Forster, Gernot Gerger, & Helmut Leder. (2017). Move me, astonish me… delight my eyes and brain: The Vienna Integrated Model of top-down and bottom-up processes in Art Perception (VIMAP) and corresponding affective, evaluative, and neurophysiological correlates. Physics of Life Reviews. 21. 80–125. 250 indexed citations
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Pelowski, Matthew, et al.. (2017). Beyond the lab: An examination of key factors influencing interaction with ‘real’ and museum-based art.. Psychology of Aesthetics Creativity and the Arts. 11(3). 245–264. 85 indexed citations
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Leder, Helmut, et al.. (2016). Private and Shared Taste in Art and Face Appreciation. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience. 10. 155–155. 61 indexed citations
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Gerger, Gernot, Michael Forster, & Helmut Leder. (2016). It felt fluent but I did not like it: fluency effects in faces versus patterns. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology. 70(4). 637–648. 12 indexed citations
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Forster, Michael & Eva Specker. (2016). The Vienna Art Interest and Art Knowledge (VAIAK) Questionnaire. OSF Preprints (OSF Preprints). 1 indexed citations
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Forster, Michael, Helmut Leder, & Ulrich Ansorge. (2016). Exploring the Subjective Feeling of Fluency. Experimental Psychology (formerly Zeitschrift für Experimentelle Psychologie). 63(1). 45–58. 17 indexed citations
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Forster, Michael, Gernot Gerger, & Helmut Leder. (2015). Everything’s Relative? Relative Differences in Processing Fluency and the Effects on Liking. PLoS ONE. 10(8). e0135944–e0135944. 12 indexed citations
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Forster, Michael, et al.. (2015). Do I really feel it? The contributions of subjective fluency and compatibility in low-level effects on aesthetic appreciation. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience. 9. 373–373. 10 indexed citations
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Carbon, Claus‐Christian, et al.. (2013). Innovation is Appreciated When We Feel Safe: On the Situational Dependence of the Appreciation of Innovation. 7(2). 16 indexed citations
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Leder, Helmut, et al.. (2013). Image Ambiguity and Fluency. PLoS ONE. 8(9). e74084–e74084. 57 indexed citations
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Forster, Michael, Helmut Leder, & Ulrich Ansorge. (2012). It felt fluent, and I liked it: Subjective feeling of fluency rather than objective fluency determines liking.. Emotion. 13(2). 280–289. 87 indexed citations
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Leder, Helmut, Michael Forster, & Gernot Gerger. (2011). The Glasses Stereotype Revisited. Swiss Journal of Psychology. 70(4). 211–222. 37 indexed citations
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Forster, Michael, et al.. (1994). Connectionism and the fate of folk psychology. 1 indexed citations

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