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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)

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
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
Positive musical performance feedback facilitates general self-efficacy and choice of solo performance	4
Student-perceived social interactions in university musical ensembles predicted group identification	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
Do emotions evoked by music modulate visuospatial working memory capacity? A physiological study	4
Shared musical activity and perceptions of relationship commitment	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
Mind wandering and musical creativity in jazz improvisation	4