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Ursula Beermann
Researcher at University of Innsbruck
Publications - 13
Citations - 1050
Ursula Beermann is an academic researcher from University of Innsbruck. The author has contributed to research in topics: Virtue & Values in Action Inventory of Strengths. The author has an hindex of 10, co-authored 13 publications receiving 873 citations. Previous affiliations of Ursula Beermann include University of Zurich.
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Strengths of character, orientations to happiness, and life satisfaction
TL;DR: The authors found that the character strengths most associated with life satisfaction were associated with orientations to pleasure, to engagement, and to meaning, implying that the most fulfilling character strengths are those that make possible a full life.
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Measuring aesthetic emotions: A review of the literature and a new assessment tool
Ines Schindler,Ines Schindler,Georg Hosoya,Winfried Menninghaus,Ursula Beermann,Valentin Wagner,Michael Eid,Klaus R. Scherer +7 more
TL;DR: The development of a questionnaire that is applicable across many of these domains: the Aesthetic Emotions Scale (Aesthemos), which contains 21 subscales that are designed to assess the emotional signature of responses to stimuli’s perceived aesthetic appeal in a highly differentiated manner.
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Investigating the humor of gelotophobes: Does feeling ridiculous equal being humorless?
TL;DR: This article found that gelotophobes are less cheerful and characterize their humor style as inept, socially cold, and mean-spirited, while non-gelotophobe report less frequent use of humor as a means for coping and indulge less often in self-enhancing and social humor.
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How virtuous is humor? What we can learn from current instruments
Ursula Beermann,Willibald Ruch +1 more
TL;DR: This article found humorous behavior and attitudes representing virtues and vices within an item pool of 12 popular humor questionnaires and investigated the nature of the virtues represented by their item contents, with the majority of items evaluated as neutral.
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Social affiliation in same-class and cross-class interactions.
Stéphane Côté,Michael W. Kraus,Nichelle C. Carpenter,Paul K. Piff,Ursula Beermann,Dacher Keltner +5 more
TL;DR: The prediction that social affiliation among same-class partners is stronger at the extremes of the class spectrum is tested, given that these groups are highly distinctive and most separated from others by institutional and economic forces.