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Impact of cross-modal priming using emotional music on facial emotion recognition among autistic children Psychology of Music (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2025-02-13 Fengrui Xu, Xiaoyue Ding, Gong-Liang Zhang, Dianzhi Liu, Jingyi Liu, Deming Shu
To examine the impact of music as a cross-modal prime on facial emotion recognition ability in autistic children, this study compares the priming effect of music with that of faces as an intramodal prime and nonverbal sounds as the same cross-modal prime. The response time and accuracy of facial emotion recognition (happy and sad) were compared among 21 neurotypical children and 17 autistic children
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A new look at the potential links between music practice, empathy, and prosociality Psychology of Music (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2025-02-06 Dorothée Morand-Grondin, Beatriz Oliveira, Floris T van Vugt, Simon Rigoulot
Engaging in music practice is often assumed to increase empathy and prosociality. However, data in support of this relationship are limited, leaving unclear which components of empathy (cognitive empathy, emotional contagion, and emotional disconnection) and prosocial behaviors, if any, would be affected. Here, we recruited musicians with more than 2 years of musical experience ( n = 80) and nonmusicians
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Beat perception in polyrhythms is influenced by spontaneous motor tempo, musicianship, and played musical style Psychology of Music (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2025-01-30 Jan Stupacher, Cecilie Møller, Alexandre Celma-Miralles, Peter Vuust
No two people perceive the same music alike. This may apply especially to polyrhythms, which consist of two or more rhythms with indivisible regular pulses, such as three over four (3:4). Either of these pulses can be perceived as the underlying beat. Previously, we showed that people naturally tap along to pulses that can be subdivided into groups of two or four equally spaced units (i.e., binarized
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Spontaneous motor tempo modulates the effect of music tempo on arousal levels Psychology of Music (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2025-01-18 Kyoko Hine, Koki Abe, Shigeki Nakauchi
Music tempo affects listeners’ mental state, especially arousal levels. However, several studies have demonstrated that the effect of music tempo on arousal while listening to music can be modulated by individual differences, such as the pace of mental activity, that is, spontaneous motor tempo (SMT). Thus, SMT is a candidate factor that affects the relationship between music tempo and arousal. Here
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Thank you for the music: Music as a social surrogate that protects against social threats Psychology of Music (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2025-01-18 Elaine Paravati, Esha Naidu, Shira Gabriel
Social need fulfillment is imperative to well-being, leading to a strong motivation to ensure that social needs are met. The social surrogacy hypothesis proposes that individuals may use non-human social targets, including television characters, books, or comfort foods, to address social needs. The current work sought to examine the social surrogacy hypothesis in the domain of music. Utilizing both
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“A space to be myself ”: Music and self-determination in the lives of autistic adults Psychology of Music (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2025-01-17 Kaja Korošec, Anna Backman Bister, Eva Bojner Horwitz
Despite many decades of academic interest in music and autism, we know little about what music means to autistic adults and how they experience it. The few existing studies lack a common theoretical basis and are therefore difficult to compare and integrate. To address this gap, we investigated whether Self-Determination Theory can be used as a common framework for understanding the functions of music
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Psychiatric diagnoses of professional musicians: Results of an outpatient service specializing in musicians’ health Psychology of Music (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2025-01-17 Isabel Fernholz, Christian Hering, Hagen Kunte, Jennifer Mumm, Andreas Ströhle, Alexander Schmidt, Antonia Bendau, Jens Plag
Professional musicians are often confronted with multiple profession-related stressors, which may be associated with an increased risk of mental strain, but empirical evidence focusing on clinical samples of musicians is limited. The aim of this study was to examine clinically confirmed mental disorders and personality accentuations in musicians attending a musician-specific outpatient service, to
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Meta-analysis on the effects of music participation on social and emotional measures across the lifespan Psychology of Music (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2025-01-17 Patrick K Cooper
The purpose of this study was to conduct a random-effects meta-analysis to measure the overall mean effect of music participation on social and emotional measures in participants across the lifespan. Results showed small to medium overall effects ( N = 18,564, k = 56, g = .23, p < .0001, 95% confident interval = [.16, .29]), indicating subjects who participated in music had better scores on social
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From structural listening to daydreaming: Listening modes influence the individual experience in live concerts Psychology of Music (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2025-01-17 Christian Weining, Deborah Meier, Melanie Wald-Fuhrmann, Martin Tröndle
Listening modes are often ignored in music perception research, especially when it comes to the supposedly attentive listening situation of a classical concert. The audience members’ various ways of listening, understood as the directedness of activity toward different dimensions of sound, is hypothesized to play a key role in the experience of live music. We assessed listening activity of participants
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The cognitive and emotional content of music-evoked autobiographical memories in older adults Psychology of Music (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2025-01-09 Teresa Lesiuk, Giulia Ripani
Music can play a significant role in mitigating cognitive deficits in aging adults. When music is long known and has an emotional significance (i.e., autobiographical music), it can trigger memories of past experiences (i.e., Music-Evoked Autobiographical Memories, MEAMs). In this study, we examined the cognitive and emotional content of MEAMs when older adults listened to autobiographical music. To
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Please don’t stop the music! A new look at the performance anxiety of musicians with the model of excellencism and perfectionism Psychology of Music (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2025-01-08 Patrick Racine, Samuel Vachon Laflamme, Patrick Gaudreau, Frédéric Langlois
Musicians have normalized performance anxiety (PA) to be part of their musical career. Perfectionism has been proposed as a possible personality risk factor for PA. Although perfectionistic concerns have been consistently positively correlated to PA, results have been inconsistent for perfectionistic standards. This inconsistency is potentially attributable to the fact that past studies did not differentiate
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The development of a resistance to school music scale Psychology of Music (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2024-12-24 Alican Gülle, Nezaket Bilge Uzun, Cenk Akay
This study aimed to develop a valid and reliable measurement tool measuring secondary school students’ resistance to school music. Construct and content validity studies based on expert reviews, principal component analysis, confirmatory factor analysis, convergent validity, divergent validity, and Horn’s parallel analysis were conducted to provide additional evidence within the scope of the study
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The important role of self in cross-cultural investigations of affective experiences with music Psychology of Music (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2024-12-24 Jonathan Tang
In the last decade, the construct of ‘culture’ was featured very prominently in music cognition research. However, researchers have adopted a narrow conceptualisation and a limited repertoire of methodologies when investigating ‘culture’. The purpose of this article is to expand on recommendations of Jacoby et al. and propose a novel approach to cross-cultural investigations of affective experiences
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Singing interventions in depression: A scoping review Psychology of Music (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2024-12-19 Yaming Wei, Wenjia Zheng, Qianqi Fan, Xiaomei Zhang
The growing prevalence of depression, a major global health problem, has led to the exploration of complementary treatments such as singing, which can provide emotional healing and psychological support. Singing interventions are known for their universal appeal and potential neurobiological and psychosocial benefits. This review analyzes 11 studies from 2013 to 2023, revealing singing’s efficacy in
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An investigation of earworms and obsessive–compulsive traits using experience sampling and retrospective methods Psychology of Music (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2024-12-18 Callula Killingly, Daniel Bielinski, Philippe Lacherez
Having a song ‘stuck’ in the head – an earworm – is a curious cognitive phenomenon frequently experienced among the general population. The intrusive and involuntary nature of earworms has led to recent survey studies investigating their potential link with obsessive–compulsive (OC) traits. However, those higher in OC traits may tend to self-report more earworms and evaluate their episodes less positively
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The effects of sad music: Moderating role of cognitive reappraisal Psychology of Music (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2024-12-18 Oliver Herdson, Matilda Minchin, Holly Parker, Selina Muller, Amir-Homayoun Javadi
Seemingly paradoxically, sad music has exhibited potential in improving mood in individuals, as well as being detrimental to mood and indicative of maladaptive behaviours concerning emotion regulation. Research suggests that different adaptive and maladaptive behaviours underlie sad music listening. Therefore, we explored if cognitive reappraisal (CR) was an effective tool for promoting mood enhancement
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Rhythmic entrainment of heart rate as a mechanism for musical emotion induction: A plausible hypothesis in need of evidence? Psychology of Music (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2024-12-17 Patrik N Juslin, Laszlo Harmat, Gonçalo Barradas, Gustaf Omstedt, Veronica Redtzer
Several researchers have hypothesized that a musical rhythm can influence a listener’s heart rate through a process of entrainment and that this mechanism can influence the emotional feelings of the listener also. However, previous research has yielded mixed results, perhaps due to methodological problems. In this study, we independently manipulated the tempo of pieces of ambient instrumental music
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Standing in the spotlight: The interplay of music performance anxiety, perfectionism, and fear of negative evaluation in conservatory musicians Psychology of Music (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2024-12-17 B. Göktürk Gök, Özden Yalçınkaya-Alkar
Music performance anxiety (MPA) is an age-old phenomenon well known to musicians. It is a feeling of unease and apprehension that can manifest itself in various forms – from mild discomfort to intense anxiety – when musicians are preparing to perform or are actively performing. MPA can arise from many different sources, including perfectionism and fear of negative evaluation (FNE). Drawing upon a sample
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Harmonic expectancy violations: Testing the effects of familiarity, lead-in time, and ecological validity Psychology of Music (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2024-12-05 Claire Arthur
In this article, the impact of three experimental parameters in a harmonic expectancy study are evaluated: stimulus duration (specifically the lead-in time prior to an unexpected event), ecological validity of the stimulus (original recording vs. piano only), and familiarity. This article also presents a novel experimental paradigm for detecting expectancy violations in a real-time listening context
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Exploring intra-contextual influences in music emotion perception Psychology of Music (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2024-11-30 Sanga Chaki, Priyadarshi Patnaik, Junmoni Borgohain, Raju Mullick, Gouri Karambelkar, Sourangshu Bhattacharya
Context is one of the key parameters influencing music emotion perception in listeners. The current study systematically investigates the influence of immediate intrinsic musical context on the perception of music-evoked emotions. Four dominantly happy and four dominantly sad Hindustani classical music excerpts were chosen and rated for perceived emotions in two types of listening experiments. In the
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The support of autonomy, motivation, and music practice in university music students: A self-determination theory perspective Psychology of Music (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2024-11-30 Arielle Bonneville-Roussy, Paul Evans
Practice may be the single most important activity that musicians can use to improve their performance. Yet practice requires significant effort and can sometimes feel difficult or unenjoyable. For this reason, substantial motivational resources are required to sustain consistent, high-quality practice over long periods. In this study, we used self-determination theory to study the kinds of motivation
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Burning out, fading away, and the sophomore slump: Critics’ versus fans’ ratings of music artists’ album quality over time Psychology of Music (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2024-11-27 Gregory D. Webster, Lysann Zander
Folk psychology posits that music artists’ first albums are considered their best, whereas later albums draw fewer accolades, and that artists’ second albums are considered worse than their first—a phenomenon called the “sophomore slump.” This work is the first large-scale multi-study attempt to test changes in album quality over time and whether a sophomore slump bias exists. Study 1 examined music
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The use of music in the daily care of an infant: Exploring a mother’s experience during the COVID-19 pandemic Psychology of Music (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2024-11-18 Maria Papazachariou-Christoforou
This study investigates how a first-time Cypriot mother used music in caring for her infant during the COVID-19 pandemic. Limited research has been done about musical parenting during this time, highlighting the importance of this single case study. For 5 months, the mother-participant engaged in an online musical parenting program, which aimed to increase knowledge regarding the use of music and movement
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Positive musical performance feedback facilitates general self-efficacy and choice of solo performance Psychology of Music (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2024-11-14 Weronika Molińska, Joanna Rajchert
This study investigates the impact of positive or negative performance evaluations on general self-efficacy and subsequent choice of a solo or group performance among professional musicians ( N = 53; women 58.2%, men 36.4%, non-binary 5.5%). Participants completed personality questionnaires, sight-read an unfamiliar musical piece, received computer-generated feedback, and reported post-manipulation
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Examining how brief mindfulness training influences communication within the brain of musicians with music performance anxiety: A resting state fMRI study Psychology of Music (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2024-11-12 Kayla Boileau, Nicole Stanson, Zhuo Fang, Kheana Barbeau, Umara Hansen, Gilles Comeau, Andra Smith
Many musicians live with music performance anxiety (MPA), which may affect their psychological and physiological functioning. Mindfulness, being aware in the present moment without judgment, has been found to help ease anxiety. Mindfulness may also help alleviate the negative effects of MPA, but what is the neurophysiological basis for this effect? Core components of mindfulness, including emotional
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Episode model: The functional approach to emotional experiences of music Psychology of Music (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2024-10-22 Tuomas Eerola, Connor Kirts, Suvi Saarikallio
We present a novel framework for music and emotion research that addresses emotional experiences with music as functional episodes. This framework, called the Episode Model, places the situation and the function of the music for the individual at the centre of the experience and integrates acts of affective self-regulation to our understanding of music as emotional experiences. The model consists of
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“See me for who I am”: An exploratory study of undergraduate music major belonging Psychology of Music (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2024-10-21 Erika J. Knapp, James Brinkmann, Liza Calisesi Maidens
The purpose of this exploratory instrumental qualitative case study with nested mixed methods was to examine undergraduate music majors’ perceptions of their sense of belonging within one public university music program. We surveyed undergraduate music majors within a single music program and completed purposeful and targeted follow-up interviews of selected respondents who represented a diverse cross-section
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Validating scores from the short form of the Music Self-Perception Inventory (MUSPI-S) with seventh- to ninth-grade school students in Germany Psychology of Music (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2024-10-18 Daniel Fiedler, Johannes Hasselhorn, A. Katrin Arens, Anne C. Frenzel, Walter P. Vispoel
The Music Self-Perception Inventory-Short (MUSPI-S) is a theoretically based instrument consisting of 28 items with subscales that assess music self-concept globally and in six specific areas. The present study sought to validate a German translation of the MUSPI-S using a sample of 444 secondary school students. In addition to participants’ scores from the German translation of the MUSPI-S, associated
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Effects of two modalities of practice on the learning of piano pieces under the deprivation of auditory feedback Psychology of Music (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2024-10-15 Renan Moreira Madeira, Regina Antunes Teixeira dos Santos
Sixteen piano students learned four piano pieces under two different conditions that involved the deprivation of auditory and motor feedback. One condition required study away from the piano, thus implying the removal of auditory and kinaesthetic feedback (mental practice, MP). The other condition involved study on a digital piano that was turned off (motor practice, MoP), hence depriving the participant
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Embodiment of emotions in adolescents’ musical expression Psychology of Music (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2024-10-08 Suvi Saarikallio, Birgitta Burger, Geoffrey Luck
Music has been actively studied from the perspectives of emotional expression and body movement, but not during adolescence. The current study addressed music as a forum for adolescent embodied emotion expression. Based on prior research, we hypothesised that adolescents would be able to differentiate between emotions in their music-related expressive body movements based on valence and arousal characteristics
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Lyrics of longing: Exploring the role of music in the lived experience of homesickness among college students Psychology of Music (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2024-09-19 Simran Gidwani, Veenashree Anchan, Nisha James
The study investigates the multifaceted role of music during homesickness among first-year college students in India. As compared to other mental health outcomes, homesickness is a relatively understudied phenomenon, yet noteworthy due to its direct association with depression and anxiety. Although empirical evidence about music highlights its therapeutic potential for managing stress and anxiety,
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Different voice part perceptions in polyphonic and homophonic musical textures Psychology of Music (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2024-09-14 Kai Ishida, Hiroshi Nittono
Separate voice part perception has been shown in polyphonic music. However, it remains unclear whether this segregation of voice parts is specific to polyphony or also occurs in homophonic music. This study compared voice part perceptions in polyphony and homophony using a redundant signals effect (RSE) paradigm. The RSE means that reaction times are shorter for two simultaneously presented signals
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Becoming singular: Musical identity construction and maintenance through the lens of identity process theory Psychology of Music (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2024-09-14 Melissa Forbes, Jason Goopy, Amanda E Krause
This study uses identity process theory to understand the social–psychological processes that motivate individuals to construct an identity in which music, singing, and singing teaching feature prominently. We conducted reflexive thematic analysis of semi-structured interviews with 10 Australian singing teachers (with an average age 60) to understand how they enacted identity principles that motivate
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Conversations from Arendelle: Children’s understanding of musical affect in a narrative, multimedia context Psychology of Music (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2024-09-14 Sara Beck, Daniel Allee
Children’s verbatim memory for song lyrics has been broadly investigated in the psychological literature, but little is known about the developmental course of children’s ability to construct meaning from familiar multimedia songs containing both concrete and metaphorical language. The present study examined age-related change in children’s understanding of the hit song “Let It Go” using a brief comprehension
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Evaluations of solo piano performances: The role of performing with and without a musical score Psychology of Music (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2024-07-31 D Gregory Springer, Rachel A Sorenson
The act of performing without a musical score is common and expected in many contexts. The purpose of this study was to examine the effects of performing with and without a musical score on listeners’ evaluations of solo pianists. We also investigated whether the effects of score use differed according to the perceived expertise of the performer. Participants ( N = 69) were collegiate music students
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Video-based categorization system and frequency analysis of gestures in saxophone playing Psychology of Music (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2024-07-31 Nádia Moura, Pedro Fonseca, Jorge Graça, Philippe Trovão, Márcio Goethel, João Paulo Vilas-Boas, Sofia Serra
The study of gestures in music performance provides valuable insights for instrumental learning. However, gestural vocabularies vary depending on the instrument being played, according to its postural and technical specificities. The goals of this study were twofold: first, to create a gesture categorization system for saxophone players, and second, to analyse their gestural behaviour across contrasting
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Are we all anxious about the same thing? A comparison of lay definitions of music making and performance in the context of music participation Psychology of Music (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2024-07-31 Katrina M Rivera, Lillian Smyth, Georgia Pike-Rowney, Susan West
Adverse experiences toward making music can be found in both musicians (music performance anxiety) and non-musicians (avoidance of participating in musical experiences). Both anxiety and avoidance are driven by perceptions and attributions about particular stimuli, based on schemas developed via direct and indirect experiences. Most research within music psychology focuses on the views of professional
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Effects of amateur choir experience on forced-attention dichotic listening in older adults Psychology of Music (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2024-07-29 Yang Li, Jinxin Ji, Xinxian Zhao, Xiaohu Yang
This study aimed to investigate the effects of amateur choir experience on “forced-attention” dichotic listening performance in older adults. Twenty older adults with choir experience and 20 without such experience were recruited, along with a group of 20 younger adults as the baseline. Participants were instructed to complete the dichotic listening task based on consonant-vowel (CV) syllables in four
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Effectiveness of Comprehensive Health-literacy And Relaxing Music (CHARM) intervention on pregnancy-related anxiety among low-risk primigravid women: A randomized controlled trial Psychology of Music (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2024-07-27 Meena Konsam, Samir Kumar Praharaj, Jyothi Shetty, Sunita Panda, Vani Lakshmi R, Asha Kamath, Sonia RB D’Souza
Pregnancy-related anxiety commonly occurs among first-time pregnant women, carrying an increased risk of harmful effects to both mother and the growing fetus or newborns. This study aims to assess the effectiveness of a Comprehensive Health-literacy And Relaxing Music (CHARM) intervention compared with two other stand-alone interventions (relaxing music–only intervention, comprehensive health literacy–only
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Book Review: Aaron Williamon, Jane Ginsborg, Rosie Perkins and George Waddell, Performing Music Research: Methods in Music Education, Psychology, and Performance Science Psychology of Music (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2024-07-27 Michael Bonshor
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Using music to feel better: Are different emotion-regulation strategies truly distinct? Psychology of Music (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2024-07-27 Jeffrey H Kahn, Kaylee C Enevold, Destiny Feltner-Williams, Kendall Ladd
People use music to regulate their emotions in a variety of ways. Whereas some of these strategies are conceptually and empirically distinct from one another, other strategies are not wholly distinguishable. We examined the distinctiveness among strategies used to regulate emotions via music listening. College students ( N = 274) completed an online questionnaire with closed-ended and open-ended items
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The effect of chord duration on the relative salience of chord-type and voicing changes Psychology of Music (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2024-05-24 Ivan Jimenez, Tuire Kuusi, Juha Ojala, Peter Harrison
This study investigates the effect of chord duration on the relative salience of chord-type and voicing changes. Participants ( N = 111) with varying levels of musical training were presented with sequences of five block chords on the piano and asked to indicate which chord sounded most different. Each sequence consisted of three identical chords and two oddballs, one with a voicing change and one
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The effect of differentiated video presentations of choral performances on aesthetic responses of undergraduate choral and instrumental ensemble musicians Psychology of Music (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2024-05-24 Charles R Robinson, Daniel J Keown
Research examining affective response to media modalities including film, television, gaming, video streaming, and virtual reality is expanding. This study examined aesthetic responses to choral performances presented in two contrasting video formats (stationary and produced). Volunteer undergraduate students ( N = 94) enrolled in ensembles (choral, n = 45; instrumental, n = 49) indicated their aesthetic
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The association between music performance skills and cognitive improvement in a musical instrument training program for older adults Psychology of Music (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2024-05-15 Marcelo Kakihara, Xueyan Wang, Shoko Iwasaki, Takahiro Soshi, Masatoshi Yamashita, Kaoru Sekiyama
Recent studies have reported positive effects of music training on older adults’ executive functions. However, it is not completely known whether these outcomes were due to improvement in music performance skills or due to other components of training, such as social interaction and music listening. Here, we investigated the effect of a 10-week melodica training program on a group of healthy older
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Opening up openings: Zooming in on improvisation in the Theater of Home Psychology of Music (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2024-05-15 Robert L Burke, Maria Sappho, Ross Birrell, Raymond MacDonald, Tia DeNora
This article presents a qualitative analysis of the opening section of an online improvisation session. The session, which was organized by the Glasgow Improvisers Orchestra, included an international group of musicians. It took place during the global COVID-19 pandemic where the participants were experiencing lockdown conditions. Phenomenological reflexive analysis and video elicitation techniques
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Cultivating meaning and self-transcendence to increase positive emotions and decrease anxiety in music performance Psychology of Music (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2024-05-10 Elsa Perdomo-Guevara, Nicola Dibben
This article presents the findings of an intervention aimed at promoting positive emotions in music performance, as positive emotions are intrinsically valuable and can have associated benefits. The intervention sought to help participants conceive performance in more meaningful, self-transcendent terms. This study investigated whether the intervention helped performers to change their approach to
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Concurrent musical pitch height biases judgment of visual brightness Psychology of Music (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2024-05-08 You Jeong Hong, Ahyeon Choi, Chae-Eun Lee, WooJae Cho, Sumin Yoon, Kyogu Lee
The integration of music sounds with concurrent visual scenes or objects is a occurrence in our daily lives, attracting the attention of researchers investigating how music influences our perceptions of simultaneous visuals. This study specifically investigates the role of musical pitch height in shaping our judgments of visual brightness during concurrent music–visual events. Participants were presented
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Children’s and adolescents’ engagement with music and the potential for (digital) empowerment processes: A text-mining-supported scoping review Psychology of Music (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2024-04-26 Kathrin Smolarczyk, Lisa Birnbaum, Alexander Christ, Stephan Kröner
Extracurricular and out-of-school engagement with music is often associated with positive effects for musical goals while also holding potential for developmental and empowerment processes. The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the importance and the potential of digital technologies for facilitating musical engagement. The emergence of digitally transformed musicking has added complexity to the already
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Unraveling the interplay of emotions in art and music: An event-related potential investigation Psychology of Music (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2024-04-24 Francesco De Benedetto, Eleonora Ghiraldini, Nausicaa Capizzi, Alice Mado Proverbio
The study examined the impact of music’s emotional content on the aesthetic experience of visual artworks during combined stimulation. The hypothesis posited that incongruity of emotional states induced by music would impede accurate comprehension of emotional aspect of artworks. A total of 18 university students were presented with 192 paintings and 20 emotionally congruent or incongruent musical
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Spiralling Engagement Experiences of Creativity (SEEC): A process of research-led arts creation for facilitating experiences of flourishing in participants’ lives Psychology of Music (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2024-04-23 Julie Ballantyne, Eve Klein
Research in the area of Positive Psychology typically investigates positive psychological interventions and their impact on the lives of participants, positive psychology as an approach to enhance the lives of participants, or investigations of particular populations in search of evidence of flourishing. This paper presents a research process of embodied, creative engagement to facilitate the exploration
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Music-making facilitates acculturation and reduces acculturative stress: Evidence from a survey of migrants living in Germany Psychology of Music (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2024-04-20 Jasmin Chantah, Emily Frankenberg, Zora Kasanda, Stephan Bongard
Beneficial effects of music on wellbeing and group cohesion are well established. Furthermore, participation in music groups has been shown to be associated with increased orientation to the host culture, while orientation to culture of origin appears to remain unaffected. In order to gain insight into the effects of music activities on acculturative stress in adult migrants, a group of musically active
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Personal strength and coping during the COVID-19 pandemic: A study of cultural workers in the music sector Psychology of Music (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2024-04-11 Beate Elstad, Erik Døving, Dag Jansson
This study examines how cultural workers in the music sector coped with the COVID-19-induced lockdown, and how coping is associated with growth in personal strength during the pandemic. We conducted an online survey 1 year into the pandemic among members of Creo, Norway’s largest trade union in the music sector. Respondents ( N = 658) were to a large degree engaged in fight coping. Furthermore, seeking
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Charity begins with prosocial music: Musical differences in intertemporal prosocial discounting and generosity Psychology of Music (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2024-04-10 Mei Hong, Dapeng Liang, Teng Lu
It has been demonstrated that exposure to music with prosocial lyrics can increase the accessibility of prosocial thoughts, leading to greater empathy and fostering helping behaviors. However, existing studies have largely neglected the intertemporal nature of altruism, limiting their scope of interpretation. The present research investigates the effects of attentively listening to music with prosocial
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The Aversive Musical Experience Scale (AMES): Measuring individual differences in the intensity of music-evoked aversion Psychology of Music (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2024-04-05 Jonna K. Vuoskoski, Henna-Riikka Peltola
Strongly disliked music has the capacity to evoke strong negative emotions and physical sensations—at least in some listeners. Although previous (qualitative) studies on disliked music have provided valuable descriptions of listeners’ experiences, more generalizable approaches are needed for understanding individual differences in the intensity of music-evoked aversive experiences. This study set out
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The effects of a mindfulness meditation program on enhancing musical perception of time: A pilot study Psychology of Music (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2024-04-04 Berke Ankaç, Hakkı Cengiz Eren, Erkan Sülün
Mindfulness meditation practices have garnered a lot of popularity in recent years. Various psychological benefits of mindfulness meditation have been documented in a myriad of literature. In this pilot study, we evaluated the effectiveness of a short-term mindfulness training program on time-based musical perceptions of pre-service music teachers. Here, time-based perception entails the accurate perception
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“There’s no one as honest as those in pain”: The language of Tom Petty’s song lyrics Psychology of Music (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2024-03-20 Seth C Kalichman, Joshua M Smyth
Tom Petty’s songs are among the most recognized and influential in rock music. One aspect of Petty’s songs that contributes to his popularity is his use of language in his lyrics. The current study performed two sets of analyses: (a) to examine linguistic features of Petty’s song lyrics over the course of his songwriting career; and (b) to investigate similarities and differences between Petty’s lyrics
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Music performance anxiety can be facilitating or debilitating: Emotion accompaniment makes the difference Psychology of Music (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2024-03-20 Emily Murphy, Molly F McGillivray, Peter D MacIntyre
Music performance anxiety (MPA) is most often defined as a negative experience that is harmful to successful performance, but potential facilitating effects of MPA often are acknowledged. The distinction between facilitating and debilitating effects often is attributed to various cognitive frameworks based on the quantity of anxiety, where smaller amounts may be helpful and larger amounts harmful.
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Very low association between multidimensional musical environment exposure and musical perception skills among children: Evidence from a large multilevel cross-sectional study Psychology of Music (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2024-03-14 Hugo Cogo-Moreira, Anders Nordahl-Hansen
This study aimed to explore whether music perception is correlated with the load of exposure to musical activities in daily life, such as attending musical events, playing an instrument, attending music classes (at school or for a social project), and the time children spend listening to music using a non-experimental design. We are reusing data from the studies by Barros et al. and Cogo-Moreira &
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How Australian singers experienced disruption to choir participation caused by pandemic lockdowns: A thematic analysis Psychology of Music (IF 1.6) Pub Date : 2024-03-13 Belinda Densley, Katrina Andrews, Trudi Flynn
Benefits of group singing participation have been well established and group singing through social prescription has attracted recent research attention. This study offers a unique participant perspective on the benefits of regular singing group engagement by exploring what happened when access was lost through COVID-19 lockdowns. Sixty adult singers, including five facilitators, who ceased singing