How do we know what we like, whether in music, visual arts, literature, language, or in the environment we encounter every day? As the world‘s only research institution dedicated to this question, the Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics aims to answer it and to establish fundamental knowledge about the role and function of aesthetics in human life. But we can‘t do it without you!

Most of our research studies take place on the Institute‘s premises on Grüneburgweg in Frankfurt‘s Westend neighborhood. All participants receive compensation for their time. And everyone who is registered in our participant pool receives regular invitations to enroll in current studies.