OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Psychology of Music is 4. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Calling the tune in maladaptive daydreaming: The impact of music on the experience of compulsive fantasizing	40
Syncopation levels, but not movement, are associated with pleasantness while listening to rhythmic music	25
A moderated mediation study of music engagement, adaptive music listening, and dreaming	24
Effects of amateur choir experience on forced-attention dichotic listening in older adults	23
The phantoms of the opera—Stress offstage and stress onstage	20
Concurrent musical pitch height biases judgment of visual brightness	18
Self-efficacy and music performance: A meta-analysis	16
Predicting anxiety, depression, and wellbeing in professional and nonprofessional musicians	15
Identity formation and possible selves of early career instrumental music teachers: A qualitative study	13
Effects of attention focus instructions on amateur piano performance	13
Audiences’ emotional response to choir singing by people living with mental health conditions	13
Please don’t stop the music! A new look at the performance anxiety of musicians with the model of excellencism and perfectionism	12
Music engagement for stress and anxiety in adults during the COVID-19 pandemic: A systematic review	12
Emotional and musical factors combined with song-specific age predict the subjective autobiographical saliency of music in older adults	12
The effects of prosocial lyrics music on attentional bias	12
Hearing loss and mental health issues in amateur and professional musicians	11
The relationship between extracurricular music activity participation and music and Chinese language academic achievements of primary school students in China	11
The effect of chord duration on the relative salience of chord-type and voicing changes	11
Exploring intra-contextual influences in music emotion perception	10
Exploring relations between Big Five personality traits and musical emotions embodied in spontaneous dance	10
Musical mood induction: The relative influences of music type and the importance of music preference	10
Role of expectancy in physiological responses to sound recognition of musical dissonance and timbral change	10
Harmonic expectancy violations: Testing the effects of familiarity, lead-in time, and ecological validity	9
The problem of universals in cross-cultural studies: Insights from Sámi animal melodies (yoik)	9
Changes in mood, oxytocin, and cortisol following group and individual singing: A pilot study	9

Cultivating meaning and self-transcendence to increase positive emotions and decrease anxiety in music performance	9
Effects of two modalities of practice on the learning of piano pieces under the deprivation of auditory feedback	9
Development and validation of the Singing Voice Function Self-Efficacy Scale (Singing-VoSES)	8
Book Review: Honing, H, The evolving animal orchestra: In search of what makes us musical	8
Situational belonging in high school band ensembles and high schools	8
Are we all anxious about the same thing? A comparison of lay definitions of music making and performance in the context of music participation	8
Beat perception in polyrhythms is influenced by spontaneous motor tempo, musicianship, and played musical style	8
Measuring emotional music experience: Spreading activation and BRECVEMA mechanisms	8
Burning out, fading away, and the sophomore slump: Critics’ versus fans’ ratings of music artists’ album quality over time	8
The important role of self in cross-cultural investigations of affective experiences with music	8
Environmental factors affecting classical music concert experience	8
How to dress to impress: The effect of concert dress type on perceptions of female classical pianists	7
Just noticeable differences in sound intensity of piano tones in non-musicians and experienced pianists	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
Book Review: Oscar Odena Musical creativity revisited: Educational foundations, practices and research	7
Does genre make a difference? Classical orchestra/popular band musicians’ motivation, self-efficacy, and practice experiences’ effects on deliberate practice	7
How Australian singers experienced disruption to choir participation caused by pandemic lockdowns: A thematic analysis	6
Effect of specific melodic scales of Indian music in reducing state and trait anxiety: A randomized clinical trial	6
Spiralling Engagement Experiences of Creativity (SEEC): A process of research-led arts creation for facilitating experiences of flourishing in participants’ lives	6
Personal strength and coping during the COVID-19 pandemic: A study of cultural workers in the music sector	6
Embodiment of emotions in adolescents’ musical expression	6
How does music contribute to well-being? Perspectives from homeless young adults with problematic psychoactive substance use	6
University musicians’ use of component cognitive skills in practice: A self-report study	6
Psychometric properties of a scale of attitudes toward musical genres linked to social groups in Peru	6
The effects of sensory deprivations during the initial practice of short piano pieces: An experiment with four students at different academic levels	6
Higher empathy is associated with stronger social bonding when moving together with music	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	5
Immediacy, ensemble setup, and classroom space: A quasi-experimental study among secondary instrumental teachers and students	5
Understanding the lived music listening experiences of adults on the autism spectrum	5
A PRISMA review of expectancy-value theory in music contexts	5
Reminiscence bump invariance with respect to genre, age, and country	5
Experience and performance type modify anticipatory stress in musicians	5
Music preference, social identity, and collective self-esteem	5
Very low association between multidimensional musical environment exposure and musical perception skills among children: Evidence from a large multilevel cross-sectional study	5
Meditation as a tool to counteract music performance anxiety from the experts’ perspective	5
Song popularity and processing fluency of lyrics	5
Comparing effects of sad melody versus sad lyrics on mood	5
Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and musical behaviour: The significance of context	5
A cross-cultural study in Chinese and Western music: Cultural advantages in recognition of emotions	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
Predicting singing ability from parents’ parental support and openness in high school students: Using a self-adjusted Goldsmiths Musical Sophistication Index Inventory	5
French adaptation of a film music stimulus set: Normative emotional ratings of valence and arousal prompted by music excerpts	5
Augmented visual-feedback of airflow: Immediate effects on voice-source characteristics of students of singing	5
Music listening as a coping resource in domestic and international university students	4
Distinguishing between musical excerpts learned by novices individually or in pairs	4
Positive musical performance feedback facilitates general self-efficacy and choice of solo performance	4
“The music gets through”: Experiences of classical composers and observations of hospitalized adolescents in a music-based intervention	4

Perception and identification of tones in different timbres: Using pupil diameter to investigate absolute pitch ability	4
Making sense of background music listening habits: An arousal and task-complexity account	4
Musical interpretative practices as a way to improve the relationship between the flow theory and musical performance	4
“A space to be myself ”: Music and self-determination in the lives of autistic adults	4
What elicits music-evoked nostalgia? An exploratory study among college students	4
Shared musical activity and perceptions of relationship commitment	4
The cognitive and emotional content of music-evoked autobiographical memories in older adults	4
Popular music lyrics and the COVID-19 pandemic	4
Mind wandering and musical creativity in jazz improvisation	4
An investigation of earworms and obsessive–compulsive traits using experience sampling and retrospective methods	4
Student-perceived social interactions in university musical ensembles predicted group identification	4
The sound of social class: Do music preferences signal status?	4
Do emotions evoked by music modulate visuospatial working memory capacity? A physiological study	4
Validation of the Music Empathizing inventory in China	4
Putting practice under the microscope: The perceived uses and limitations of slow instrumental music practice	4