Psychology of Music

Article	Citations
Calling the tune in maladaptive daydreaming: The impact of music on the experience of compulsive fantasizing	42
A moderated mediation study of music engagement, adaptive music listening, and dreaming	25
Syncopation levels, but not movement, are associated with pleasantness while listening to rhythmic music	25
Effects of amateur choir experience on forced-attention dichotic listening in older adults	23
Self-efficacy and music performance: A meta-analysis	20
Predicting anxiety, depression, and wellbeing in professional and nonprofessional musicians	18
Concurrent musical pitch height biases judgment of visual brightness	17
The effects of prosocial lyrics music on attentional bias	16
Effects of attention focus instructions on amateur piano performance	16
Emotional and musical factors combined with song-specific age predict the subjective autobiographical saliency of music in older adults	16
Audiences’ emotional response to choir singing by people living with mental health conditions	16
Identity formation and possible selves of early career instrumental music teachers: A qualitative study	14
Music engagement for stress and anxiety in adults during the COVID-19 pandemic: A systematic review	14
Please don’t stop the music! A new look at the performance anxiety of musicians with the model of excellencism and perfectionism	13
Hearing loss and mental health issues in amateur and professional musicians	12
The effect of chord duration on the relative salience of chord-type and voicing changes	12
Musical mood induction: The relative influences of music type and the importance of music preference	12
Exploring intra-contextual influences in music emotion perception	11
Exploring relations between Big Five personality traits and musical emotions embodied in spontaneous dance	11
The problem of universals in cross-cultural studies: Insights from Sámi animal melodies (yoik)	11
Role of expectancy in physiological responses to sound recognition of musical dissonance and timbral change	11
Effects of two modalities of practice on the learning of piano pieces under the deprivation of auditory feedback	10
The relationship between extracurricular music activity participation and music and Chinese language academic achievements of primary school students in China	10
Harmonic expectancy violations: Testing the effects of familiarity, lead-in time, and ecological validity	9
Cultivating meaning and self-transcendence to increase positive emotions and decrease anxiety in music performance	9

Are we all anxious about the same thing? A comparison of lay definitions of music making and performance in the context of music participation	9
The important role of self in cross-cultural investigations of affective experiences with music	8
Changes in mood, oxytocin, and cortisol following group and individual singing: A pilot study	8
Environmental factors affecting classical music concert experience	8
Beat perception in polyrhythms is influenced by spontaneous motor tempo, musicianship, and played musical style	8
Situational belonging in high school band ensembles and high schools	8
Development and validation of the Singing Voice Function Self-Efficacy Scale (Singing-VoSES)	8
Burning out, fading away, and the sophomore slump: Critics’ versus fans’ ratings of music artists’ album quality over time	8
Book Review: Honing, H, The evolving animal orchestra: In search of what makes us musical	8
Book Review: Oscar Odena Musical creativity revisited: Educational foundations, practices and research	8
Does genre make a difference? Classical orchestra/popular band musicians’ motivation, self-efficacy, and practice experiences’ effects on deliberate practice	7
Higher empathy is associated with stronger social bonding when moving together with music	7
Effect of specific melodic scales of Indian music in reducing state and trait anxiety: A randomized clinical trial	7
Just noticeable differences in sound intensity of piano tones in non-musicians and experienced pianists	7
How does music contribute to well-being? Perspectives from homeless young adults with problematic psychoactive substance use	7
Alpha oscillations related to self-other integration and distinction during live orchestral performance: A naturalistic case study	7
The effect of background music on the aesthetic experience of a visual artwork in a naturalistic environment	7
University musicians’ use of component cognitive skills in practice: A self-report study	6
How Australian singers experienced disruption to choir participation caused by pandemic lockdowns: A thematic analysis	6
Music preference, social identity, and collective self-esteem	6
Embodiment of emotions in adolescents’ musical expression	6
A cross-cultural study in Chinese and Western music: Cultural advantages in recognition of emotions	6
Spiralling Engagement Experiences of Creativity (SEEC): A process of research-led arts creation for facilitating experiences of flourishing in participants’ lives	6
Psychometric properties of a scale of attitudes toward musical genres linked to social groups in Peru	6
“Love lies”: A content analysis of romantic attachment style in popular music	6
Predicting academic achievement in music in secondary schools: The role of personality and self-theories of musicality	6
Perception and identification of tones in different timbres: Using pupil diameter to investigate absolute pitch ability	5
The cognitive and emotional content of music-evoked autobiographical memories in older adults	5
Meditation as a tool to counteract music performance anxiety from the experts’ perspective	5
The MISE method: A new communicative approach for evaluating and training singing through mental imagery—Executive implications	5
Meter without rhythmic pattern repetitions increases pre-attentive processing	5
Immediacy, ensemble setup, and classroom space: A quasi-experimental study among secondary instrumental teachers and students	5
Augmented visual-feedback of airflow: Immediate effects on voice-source characteristics of students of singing	5
Making sense of background music listening habits: An arousal and task-complexity account	5
Validation of the Music Empathizing inventory in China	5
“The music gets through”: Experiences of classical composers and observations of hospitalized adolescents in a music-based intervention	5
Song popularity and processing fluency of lyrics	5
Very low association between multidimensional musical environment exposure and musical perception skills among children: Evidence from a large multilevel cross-sectional study	5
French adaptation of a film music stimulus set: Normative emotional ratings of valence and arousal prompted by music excerpts	5
A PRISMA review of expectancy-value theory in music contexts	5
Predicting singing ability from parents’ parental support and openness in high school students: Using a self-adjusted Goldsmiths Musical Sophistication Index Inventory	5
Comparing effects of sad melody versus sad lyrics on mood	5
Popular music lyrics and the COVID-19 pandemic	5
Experience and performance type modify anticipatory stress in musicians	5
Understanding the lived music listening experiences of adults on the autism spectrum	5
Personal strength and coping during the COVID-19 pandemic: A study of cultural workers in the music sector	5
Comparing the emotional effects of semantic content and vocal expression of lyrics	5
Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and musical behaviour: The significance of context	5
Reminiscence bump invariance with respect to genre, age, and country	5
Positive musical performance feedback facilitates general self-efficacy and choice of solo performance	4

Distinguishing between musical excerpts learned by novices individually or in pairs	4
Treatments for performance anxiety in musicians across the lifespan: A systematic review and meta-analysis	4
Music listening as a coping resource in domestic and international university students	4
Small music ensemble and empathy: A replication study in a South Korean music student sample	4
Student-perceived social interactions in university musical ensembles predicted group identification	4
Do emotions evoked by music modulate visuospatial working memory capacity? A physiological study	4
The sound of social class: Do music preferences signal status?	4
Putting practice under the microscope: The perceived uses and limitations of slow instrumental music practice	4
An investigation of earworms and obsessive–compulsive traits using experience sampling and retrospective methods	4
Music therapeutic emotional processing (MEP): Expression, awareness, and pain predict therapeutic outcome	4
Shared musical activity and perceptions of relationship commitment	4
Mind wandering and musical creativity in jazz improvisation	4
“A space to be myself ”: Music and self-determination in the lives of autistic adults	4
Musical interpretative practices as a way to improve the relationship between the flow theory and musical performance	4
Meta-analysis on the effects of music participation on social and emotional measures across the lifespan	4
What elicits music-evoked nostalgia? An exploratory study among college students	4
Musician occupational and financial stress and mental health burden	3
Music teachers’ stance in action to develop student autonomy	3
Music consumption and uses in Japan	3
Undergraduate students with musical training report less conflict in interpersonal relationships	3
Parent-child nonverbal engagement during spoken versus sung book-sharing in preschoolers with and without autism	3
Groove as a multidimensional participatory experience	3
Effects of emotionally incongruent musical excerpts on memory retrieval	3
Effectiveness of Comprehensive Health-literacy And Relaxing Music (CHARM) intervention on pregnancy-related anxiety among low-risk primigravid women: A randomized controlled trial	3
Performing sex: The representation of male and female musicians in three genres of music performance	3
Training babies for “sweet anticipation”: Emphasizing expectation arousal in infant-directed mother singing	3
Is gender role self-concept a predictor for music class attendance? Findings from secondary schools in Lower Saxony (Germany)	3
Breaking with common practice: Exploring modernist musical emotion	3
Determinants of motivation in world-class musicians and Olympic athletes: Exploring the front and the back side of the medallion	3
Validating scores from the short form of the Music Self-Perception Inventory (MUSPI-S) with seventh- to ninth-grade school students in Germany	3
When words matter: A cross-cultural perspective on lyrics and their relationship to musical emotions	3
Music and young people with intellectual disability: A scoping review	3
Episode model: The functional approach to emotional experiences of music	3
Regulating sadness: Response-independent and response-dependent benefits of listening to music	3
Music, sleep, and depression: An interview study	3
Musical consonance in simple, static auditory stimuli and perceived pleasantness: The role of musical interval, harmonicity, and stimulus duration	3
The emotion trajectory of self-selected jazz music with lyrics: A psychophysiological perspective	3
The impact of a focused listening experience on self-compassion and mental health help-seeking	3
Stories of the role musicking plays in coping with the COVID-19 pandemic in South Africa	3
Dynamic audio-visual correspondence in musicians and non-musicians	3
Musical training reduces the Colavita visual effect	2
The effect of mindfulness meditation on the vocal proficiencies of music education students	2
What is the relationship between spontaneous interpersonal synchronization and feeling of connectedness? A study of small groups of students using MIDI percussion instruments	2
The effects of sad music: Moderating role of cognitive reappraisal	2
Comparing the comprehension of short stories paired with familiar and unfamiliar melodies and spoken text in autistic children	2
A PRISMA review of research on feedback in music education and music psychology	2
Book Review: Ian Levy, Hip-Hop and Spoken Word Therapy in School Counseling: Developing Culturally Responsive Approaches	2
The musician’s personality: Do personality traits vary according to ensemble membership?	2
Experienced workload, stress, and coping among professional students in higher music education: An explanatory mixed methods study in Finland and the United Kingdom	2
The association between divergent thinking, personality, and listening to classical music	2
Tones shape notes: The realization of lexical tones in Chaozhou songs	2
Self-assessment in jazz improvisation	2
Teaching methods that foster self-efficacy belief: Perceptions of collegiate musicians from the United States	2
Collaborative learning experiences in the university jazz/creative music ensemble: Student perspectives on instructional communication	2
Video-based categorization system and frequency analysis of gestures in saxophone playing	2
Conversations from Arendelle: Children’s understanding of musical affect in a narrative, multimedia context	2
The psychological benefits of music-evoked nostalgia	2
Superior pitch identification ability revealed by cortical complexity measures in nonmusicians	2
From structural listening to daydreaming: Listening modes influence the individual experience in live concerts	2
The use of lullaby to support social and emotional wellness among parents during the COVID-19 pandemic	2
The potential of group music education for developing empathy: An empirical study	2
Measuring music-genre preferences: Discrepancies between direct and indirect methods	2
Predictors of music performance anxiety in conservatory students	2
Validation of the Measure of Emotions by Music (MEM)	2
Performance as theater: Expert pianists’ awareness of sight and sound in the concert	2
Influence of musical activities on the prosocial behaviors of preschool children	2
The relationship between music performance anxiety and self-efficacy in sixth- to eighth-grade instrumental students	2
Does music help regulate depressive symptoms for fans of violently themed music?	2
The support of autonomy, motivation, and music practice in university music students: A self-determination theory perspective	2
Rhythmic entrainment of heart rate as a mechanism for musical emotion induction: A plausible hypothesis in need of evidence?	2
Music self-efficacy predicted by self-esteem, grit, and (in)formal learning preferences among amateur musicians who use online music tutorials	2
Participatory online music creation as a crisis response: A qualitative case study	2
How do children with hearing loss progress in group flute lessons compared to their normally hearing peers? A preliminary study	2
Singing interventions in depression: A scoping review	2
The mechanism and neural substrate of musical emotions in the audio-visual modality	1
The role of family musical involvement in family relationships	1
Musical interaction in music therapy for depression treatment	1
Independent music-making during Covid-19 and mental health	1
Book Review: Lisa J Lehmberg and C Victor Fung, Music, Senior Centers, and Quality of Life	1
Sensorimotor synchronization with music and metronome in school-aged children	1

Investigating the impact of age on auditory short-term, long-term, and working memory	1
Psychosocial change across a drum corps season	1
Comparing the aesthetic experience of classic–romantic and contemporary classical music: An interview study	1
Erratum to Characteristics of music performance anxiety among undergraduate music students: A systematic review	1
Music-making facilitates acculturation and reduces acculturative stress: Evidence from a survey of migrants living in Germany	1
Spontaneous motor tempo modulates the effect of music tempo on arousal levels	1
Corrigendum to Ageing and the orchestra: Self-efficacy and engagement in community music-making	1
Corrigendum to Goldsmiths Musical Sophistication Index (Gold-MSI): Portuguese version and associations with socio-demographic factors, personality and music preferences	1
Beyond musical training: Individual influences on the perception of the speech-to-song illusion	1
A text mining approach to the use of “groove” in everyday language	1
Deliberate practice in music: Development and psychometric validation of a standardized measurement instrument	1
Professors’ motivational styles, future orientation, and engagement: A qualitative study in professor–student dyads in the school of music	1
Effect of music emotion on mu and beta oscillations	1
A scoping review and categorization of music and health psychometric inventories	1
Investigating the effects of background noise and music on cognitive test performance in introverts and extraverts: A cross-cultural study	1
Musicians are faster to process hierarchical Navon letters	1
The Kenny Music Performance Anxiety Inventory-Revised (K-MPAI-R): Validation of the Italian version	1
The association between music performance skills and cognitive improvement in a musical instrument training program for older adults	1
An examination of collegiate musicians’ ability to discern conductor intent	1
The HEXACO personality profile of musicians	1
Imprinting-like effects of early adolescent music	1
The effect of differentiated video presentations of choral performances on aesthetic responses of undergraduate choral and instrumental ensemble musicians	1
Editorial: Welcome by the new Editors-in-Chief	1
A cognitive intervention to correct a maladaptive technique in organists due to prior music learning: A randomized controlled trial	1
The impact of musicking on emotion regulation: A systematic review and meta-analysis	1
Free rider recognition—A missing link in the Baldwinian model of music evolution	1
Common neural bases for processing speech prosody and music: An integrated model	1
Becoming singular: Musical identity construction and maintenance through the lens of identity process theory	1
The professional values of American undergraduate music majors	1
Different voice part perceptions in polyphonic and homophonic musical textures	1
Predictors of work engagement in professional musicians during the COVID-19 pandemic	1
Choral singing and personal well-being: A Choral Activity Perceived Benefits Scale (CAPBES)	1
Perceptions surrounding the development of personal style in Cantonese opera among artists, connoisseurs, and beginner audiences in Hong Kong	1
Remedial interventions for developmental dyslexia: Comparing the rhythmic reading training to the “Abilmente” approach	1
Opening up openings: Zooming in on improvisation in the Theater of Home	1
Relationships between music performance anxiety and impostor phenomenon responses of graduate music performance students	1
Synaesthesia is linked to differences in music preference and musical sophistication and a distinctive pattern of sound-color associations	1
Effects of alexithymia and its subfactors on emotional response to music	1
Concertmasters’ leading-tone intonation: Do they perform as they assess?	1
Comparing the benefits of parent–infant flute and singing groups for communication and parenting: A feasibility study	1
Characteristics of music performance anxiety among undergraduate music students: A systematic review	1
Auditory affective priming: The role of trait anxiety and stimulus type	1
Psychiatric diagnoses of professional musicians: Results of an outpatient service specializing in musicians’ health	1
Visiting virtuosos’ expressivity across cultures: Acoustic analysis of a sanjo virtuoso’s performance	1
Development and validation of the Music Cognitive Test: A music-based cognitive screening test	1
Chunking in tonal contexts: Information compression during serial recall of visually presented musical notes	1
Music performance anxiety and the Italian sport psychology S.F.E.R.A. model: An explorative study on 77 professional musicians	1
The use of music in the daily care of an infant: Exploring a mother’s experience during the COVID-19 pandemic	1