Hannah Strauß, PhD BA

Senior Scientist
Personality Psychology, Differential Psychology & Assessment

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Phone: +43 (0) 512 507-56054
Room: 4W10

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About

Hi! I am a personality psychologist working as a Senior Scientist at the MUSEMPlab. I completed my studies at the University of Innsbruck, earning a PhD in Psychology as well as a BA in English and American Studies.

What I value most about my academic work is the opportunity to pursue my diverse interests. My research focuses on music psychology, particularly musical perception and music-evoked emotions, personality psychology, and test construction & assessment. I am also interested in the use of new technologies in psychological research and their impact on humans. In fall 2024, I completed a two-month research stay at the Institute for Computational Perception at JKU in Linz, where I worked on projects related to human-computer interaction and recommendation systems. Current collaboration partners include the Department of Computer Science at the University of Innsbruck, the Institute for Computational Perception at JKU Linz, and the TU Vienna.

In my free time, I enjoy music (of course!), various sports, experimenting with baking recipes, reading books, and cuddling with my cat. The Big-Five dimension I score highest is Openness for Experience.

Research interests

  • Assessment of and individual differences in music perception abilities and musically-evoked emotions
  • Digital transformations in psychological research (e.g., Social Media, AI, recommender systems)
  • Associations between early-childhood (risk) factors and cognitive & personality development
  • Development of interative (music) games for children with special needs
  • Hausberger, A., Strauss, H., & Schedl, M. (2025). ExIM: Exploring intent of music listening for retrieving user-generated playlists. In Proceedings of ACM SIGIR Conference on Human Information Interaction and Retrieval (CHIIR ’25). ACM. https://doi.org/10.1145/3698204.3716470
  • Jacobsen, P.-O.*, Strauss, H.*, Vigl, J., Zangerle, E., & Zentner, M. (2024). Measuring aesthetic music-evoked emotions in a minute or
    less. Comparison of the GEMS-45 and the GEMS-9. Musicae Scientiae. https://doi.org/10.1177/10298649241256252
  • Vigl, J., Talamini, F., Strauss, H., & Zentner, M. (2024). Prosodic discrimination skills mediate the association between musical aptitude and vocal emotion recognition ability. Scientific Reports, 14, 16462. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-66889-y
  • Moscati, M., Strauß,  H., Jacobsen,  P.-O., Peintner,  A., Zangerle,  E., Zentner,  M., & Schedl, M. (2024). Emotion-Based Music Recommendation from Quality Annotations and Large-Scale User-Generated Tags. Proceedings of the 32nd ACM Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization (UMAP). https://doi.org/10.1145/3627043.3659540
  • Strauss, H., Vigl, J., Jacobsen, P.-O., Bayer, M., Talamini, F., Vigl, W., Zangerle, E., & Zentner, M. (2024). The Emotion-to-Music Mapping Atlas (EMMA): A systematically organized online database of emotionally evocative music excerpts. Behavior Research Methods. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13428-024-02336-0
  • Strauss, H., Reiche, S., Dick, M., & Zentner, M. (2024). Online assessment of musical ability in 10 minutes: Development and validation of the Micro-PROMS. Behavior Research Methods, 56(3), 1968-1983. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13428-023-02130-4
  • Strauss, H., Zentner, M., Venables, P. (2023). Associations between early childhood poverty and cognitive functioning throughout childhood and adolescence: A 14-year prospective longitudinal analysis of the Mauritius Child Health Project. PLoS ONE, 18(2): e0278618. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0278618
  • Vigl, J., Talamini, F., Strauss, H., & Zentner, M. (2023). A Prospective Study of Relationship and Sexual Satisfaction During the First Year of the COVID‐19 Pandemic: The Role of Dispositional Vulnerabilities and External Stressors. Journal of Personality, 91. 1152-1170. https://doi.org/10.1111/jopy.12790
  • Vigl, J., Strauss, H., Talamini, F., & Zentner, M. (2022). Relationship Satisfaction in the Early Stages of the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Cross-National Examination of Situational, Dispositional, and Relationship Factors. PLoS ONE, 17(3): e0264511. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0264511
  • Zentner, M., Biedermann, V., Taferner, C., da Cudan, H., Möhler, E., Strauß, H. & Sevecke, K. (2021). Early Detection of Temperament Risk Factors: A Comparison of Clinically Referred and General Population Children. Frontiers in Psychiatry, 12: 667503. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2021.667503
  • Zentner, M., & Strauss, H. (2017). Assessing musical ability quickly and objectively: Development and validation of the Short-PROMS and the Mini-PROMS. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 1440, 33-45. https://doi.org/10.1111/nyas.13410
  • Strauss, H., Jacobsen, P.-O., Moscati, M., Zangerle, E., & Zentner, M. (2024, July 03–06). EMMA Vol. 2: Expanding the Emotion-to-Music Mapping Atlas (EMMA) Database with Diverse Genres and Comprehensive Metadata [Conference presentation]. 12th triennial conference of the European Society for the Cognitive Sciences of Music (ESCOM 12), York, UK.
  • Strauss, H., Vigl, J., & Zentner, M. (2024, July 03–06). Rapid assessment of musical competence and appreciation: Development and validation of the Music Mindedness Questionnaire [Poster presentation]. 12th triennial conference of the European Society for the Cognitive Sciences of Music (ESCOM 12), York, UK.
  • Strauss, H., Reiche, S., Dick, M., & Zentner, M. (2024, June 13–16). Online assessment of musical ability in 10 minutes: Development and validation of the Micro-PROMS [Poster presentation]. The Neurosciences and Music | VIII, Helsinki, Finland.

  • Strauss, H., Vigl, J., Jacobsen, P.-O., Bayer, M., Talamini, F., Zangerle, E., & Zentner, M. (2023, August 24–28). The Emotion-to-Music Mapping Atlas (EMMA): A Systematically Organized Online Database of Emotionally Evocative Music Excerpts. In H. Strauss & M. Zentner (Chair), New Frontiers in the Measurement of Music-Evoked Emotions [Symposium]. International Conference on Music Perception and Cognition (ICMPC17-APSCOM7), Tokyo, Japan.

  • Strauss, H., Jacobsen, P.-O., Vigl, J., Bayer, M., & Zentner, M. (2022, August 4–7). The GEMS-INN: A novel database of music excerpts profiled for nuanced emotional effects [Conference presentation]. SMPC 2022 Conference, Portland, OR, United States.

  • Strauss, H., Reiche, S., Dick, M., & Zentner, M. (2022, August 4–7). Measuring musical ability in 10 minutes or less online: Development and validation of the Micro-PROMS [Conference presentation]. SMPC 2022 Conference, Portland, OR, United States.

  • Strauss, H., Jacobsen, P.-O., Vigl, J., Bayer, M., & Zentner, M. (2022, July 12–15). Personality is key: Individual differences in the emotional experience of music [Conference presentation]. European Conference of Personality (ECP20), Madrid, Spain.

  • Strauss, H., Zentner, M., & Venables, P. (2019, April). Early childhood poverty and cognitive functioning in late adolescence: A 14-year prospective longitudinal analysis of the Mauritius Child Health Project [Conference presentation]. 3rd World Conference on Personality (WAPP), Hanoi, Vietnam.

  • Strauss, H., Zentner, M., & Venables, P. (2019, März). Gender equality as a prerequisite for equal opportunities: An analysis of cognitive sex differences in a non-western low- and middle-income sample [Poster presentation]. International Convention of Psychological Science (ICPS), Paris, France.

  • Biedermann, V., Zentner, M., & Strauss, H. (2019, March 7–9). Different genres, different emotions? An analysis of the influence of individual preferences and genre on musically evoked emotions [Poster presentation]. International Convention of Psychological Science (ICPS), Paris, France.

  • Dick, M., Strauss, H., & Zentner, M. (2019, March 7–9). How musical experience influences emotional perception of classical music [Poster presentation]. International Convention of Psychological Science (ICPS), Paris, France.

  • Serebriakova, J., Zentner, M., & Strauss, H. (2019, March 7–9). Influence of familiarity and tempo on the emotions evoked across different music genres [Poster presentation]. International Convention of Psychological Science (ICPS), Paris, France.

  • Strauss, H., Zentner, M., & Venables, P. (2017, November). Early childhood poverty and its effect on cognitive functioning in late adolescence: Findings from a prospective longitudinal study [Conference presentation]. “Jugend – Lebenswelt – Bildung” Perspektiven für Jugendforschung in Österreich, Innsbruck, Österreich.

  • Strauss, H., Zentner, M., & Venables, P. (2017, March). Early childhood predictors of cognitve functioning at age 17 years: A longitudinal analysis of the Mauritius Child Health Project [Poster presentation]. International Convention of Psychological Science (ICPS), Wien, Austria.

  • Strauss, H. & Zentner, M.  (2016, March). Der Einfluss von Fehlernährung, Temperament und Intelligenz im frühen und mittleren Kindesalter auf exekutive Funktionen im späten Jugendalter – Vorläufige Analyse einer Längsschnittstudie [Conference presentation]. 12. Tagung der Österreichischen Gesellschaft für Psychologie, Innsbruck, Austria.

  • Strauss, H. & Zentner, M. (2015, October). Objectively assessed musical ability and empathy: An analysis based on two multicomponential measures [Poster presentation] 4th Conference on Music and Emotion, Geneva, Switzerland. [pdf]

  • Strauss, H., Shakeshaft, N., Plomin, R., & Zentner, M. (2015, March). Introducing the Mini-Proms: A short and objective measure of musical ability [Poster presentation]. International Convention of Psychological Science (ICPS), Amsterdam, The Netherlands. [pdf]

Courses

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Thesis Supervision

If you are interested in writing your thesis with me, please see our lab’s info page on thesis supervision.

Here you find a selected list of my public talks and outreach activities.

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