Nationality German Fields Psychology, Aesthetics Residence Germany | Name Claus-Christian Carbon | |
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Born March 23, 1971 (age 53) Germany ( 1971-03-23 ) Alma mater University of Trier (Diplom (psychology) & Magister (philosophy))Freie Universitat Berlin (Dr. phil. (psychology)University of Vienna (Habilitation (psychology) Thesis Face Processing: early processing in the recognition of faces. (Doctoral thesis; English) (2003) Known for Mona Lisa as a stereogram | ||
Claus-Christian Carbon (born 23 March 1971 in Schweinfurt, West Germany) is a Full Professor of Psychology at the Department of General Psychology and Methodology, Institute of Psychology of the University of Bamberg, in Germany. He is currently Head of the Department of General Psychology and Methodology and Head of EPÆG—an international research group.
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Career
He received his Diplom degree in Psychology in 1998 from the University of Trier, his Magister degree in Philosophy in 1999 from the University of Trier, his PhD in Psychology in 2003 from Freie Universität Berlin and his Habilitation in Psychology in 2006 from University of Vienna. His research is mainly focused on empirical aesthetics, face processing, consumer research, haptic processing, cognitive maps, scientometrics and conspiracy theories.
Further activities
Carbon is an editor of the scientific journals Perception and iPerception, an Action Editor of Art & Perception and a member of the Editorial Board of Advances in Cognitive Psychology. He is a full member of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Psychologie (DGPs; German Society for Psychology) and the Psychonomic Society. In 2013 he founded the Bamberg Graduate School of Affective and Cognitive Sciences (BaGrACS)—he is currently head of this Graduate School; BaGrACS focuses on the link between affective and cognitive processing.