Decision on confernment of an academic degree Download
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Relevant publications
Marin, M. M., & Gingras, B. (2024). How music-induced emotions affect sexual attraction: Evolutionary implications. Frontiers in Psychology: Emotion Science, 15, 1269820. Link to OA article
Hoffmann, A. J., Maran, T. K. & Marin, M. M. (2023). The perspective makes the leader: The camera perspective in a leader photograph shapes their charismatic effect and observers' approval. Journal of Leadership and Organizational Studies, 30(4), 442-463. Link to OA article
Marin, M. M., & Rathgeber, I. (2022). Darwin’s sexual selection hypothesis revisited: Musicality increases sexual attraction in both sexes. Frontiers in Psychology: Evolutionary Psychology, 13:971988. Link to OA article
Kaisler, R., Marin, M. M., & Leder, H. (2020). Effects of emotional expressions, gaze, and head orientation on person perception in social situations. SAGE Open, 10(3). Link to OA article
Teaching evaluations
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Referees
Prof. Helmut Leder, University of Vienna, Austria, helmut.leder@univie.ac.at
Prof. Dirk Bernhardt-Walther, University of Toronto, Canada, dirk.bernhardt.walther@utoronto.ca
Prof. William Forde Thompson, Bond University, Australia, bthompso@bond.edu.au
Theses
Marin, M. (2025). Towards a comparative approach to empirical aesthetics: Complexity and emotion in environmental scenes, representational paintings and music. Unpublished doctoral thesis, University of Vienna, Austria. Supervisor: Prof. Helmut Leder Download
Marin, M. M. (2011). Emotion and unfamiliar music: Psychological and psychophysiological responses to Western and Persian music by Western and Persian listeners. Unpublished diploma thesis, University of Graz, Austria. Supervisor: Prof. Richard Parncutt; experiments performed in the laboratory of Prof. Christian Kaernbach during his time in Graz
Marin, M. M. (2009). The role of arousal in cross-modal transfer of musical emotions. Unpublished MSc dissertation, Goldsmiths, University of London, United Kingdom. Supervisor: Prof. Joydeep Bhattacharya
Marin, M. M. (2005). The role of rhythm in similarity judgements of syntactic structures in L2-speakers: An empirical study considering cognitive differences between musicians and non-musicians. Unpublished diploma thesis, University of Graz, Austria. Supervisor: ao. Prof. Annemarie Peltzer-Karpf