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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
The psychological benefits of music-evoked nostalgia	29
Resilience and mental health issues in classical musicians: A preliminary study	25
Music and COVID-19: Changes in uses and emotional reaction to music under stay-at-home restrictions	19
Emotions of music listening in Finland and in India: Comparison of an individualistic and a collectivistic culture	18
Effects of individual factors on perceived emotion and felt emotion of music: Based on machine learning methods	16
How does music performance anxiety relate to other anxiety disorders?	14
The well-being of music educators during the pandemic Spring of 2020	14
Flow in music performance and music-listening: Differences in intensity, predictors, and the relationship between flow and subjective well-being	12
Using a microanalysis intervention to examine shifts in musicians’ self-regulated learning	12
The relationship between early musical training and executive functions: Validation of effects of the sensitive period	12
When words matter: A cross-cultural perspective on lyrics and their relationship to musical emotions	12
Music education students’ intrinsic and extrinsic motivation: A quantsitative analysis of personal narratives	12
Collaborative learning experiences in the university jazz/creative music ensemble: Student perspectives on instructional communication	11
Patients choose music with high energy, danceability, and lyrics in analgesic music listening interventions	11
Creativity, music, and quality of later life: A systematic review	10
Higher empathy is associated with stronger social bonding when moving together with music	9
Making sense of background music listening habits: An arousal and task-complexity account	9
Influence of personality on music-genre exclusivity	9
The effective music teacher: A model for predicting music teacher’s self-efficacy	9
The effect of mental practice on music memorization	9
Predictors of music performance anxiety in conservatory students	9
How to dress to impress: The effect of concert dress type on perceptions of female classical pianists	8
Characteristics of music performance anxiety among undergraduate music students: A systematic review	8
Non-random acts of kindness: Joint music making increases preschoolers’ helping and sharing with an adult	8
The relationship between uses of music, musical taste, age, and life goals	8

Higher music education students’ experiences and management of performance anxiety: A qualitative study	8
Predicting anxiety, depression, and wellbeing in professional and nonprofessional musicians	8
Changes in mood, oxytocin, and cortisol following group and individual singing: A pilot study	7
Effect of vocal versus piano doubling on children’s singing accuracy	7
Neural activation of different music styles during emotion-evoking	7
Musician occupational and financial stress and mental health burden	7
Music performance anxiety and pre-performance emotions in the light of psychology of emotion and emotion regulation	7
Performers of the night: Examining the mental health of electronic music artists	7
A PRISMA review of expectancy-value theory in music contexts	7
Music performance anxiety and perfectionism in Croatian musicians	7
“We’re pushing back”: Group singing, social identity, and caring for a spouse with Parkinson’s	7
A critical review of child perfectionism as it relates to music pedagogy	7
The show must go on: Pandemic consequences on musicians’ job insecurity perception	6
The effects of emotionally congruent sad music listening in young adults high in rumination	6
Infants’ overlapping vocalizations during maternal humming: Contributions to the synchronization of preterm dyads	6
The sound of music on the pocket: A study of background music in retail	6
Music-induced analgesia: An adjunct to pain management	6
Music early learning programs: Enduring outcomes for children and their families	6
Visual processing abilities associated with piano music sight-reading expertise	6
Spanish adaptation of a film music stimulus set (FMSS): Cultural and gender differences in the perception of emotions prompted by music excerpts	6
Pre-performance routines for music students: An experimental pilot study	6
The effect of metacognitive strategies-based teaching practice in guitar education on performance achievement	6
Unique personality profiles predict when and why sad music is enjoyed	6
Out of tune: Perceptions of, engagement with, and responses to mental health interventions by professional popular musicians—A scoping review	6
Book review: Cslovjecsek, M., & Zulauf, M. (Eds.). Integrated music education. Challenges for teaching and teacher training	6
Flow and music performance: Professional musicians and music students’ views	6
Does music help regulate depressive symptoms for fans of violently themed music?	6
Toward a theory of musical intelligence	6
Are the psychological benefits of choral singing unique to choirs? A comparison of six activity groups	6
Experiences of group therapeutic songwriting of family caregivers of people with dementia	5
Maladaptive music listening strategies are modulated by individual traits	5
Music and mindfulness meditation: Comparing four music stimuli composed under similar principles	5
Slow practice and tempo-management strategies in instrumental music learning: Investigating prevalence and cognitive functions	5
Challenging the presumptive link between musical preference and aggression	5
Parent-child nonverbal engagement during spoken versus sung book-sharing in preschoolers with and without autism	5
Examining the effects of musical type and intensity in performing the flanker task: A test of attentional control theory applied to non-emotional distractions	5
Affective experiences to chords are modulated by mode, meter, tempo, and subjective entrainment	5
Augmented visual-feedback of airflow: Immediate effects on voice-source characteristics of students of singing	5
Measuring emotional music experience: Spreading activation and BRECVEMA mechanisms	5
Face the music: Children’s facial affect in musical imitation and improvisation tasks	5
Choral singing and personal well-being: A Choral Activity Perceived Benefits Scale (CAPBES)	5
The Kenny Music Performance Anxiety Inventory–Revised (K-MPAI-R): Validation of the French version	5
Teaching methods that foster self-efficacy belief: Perceptions of collegiate musicians from the United States	4
The effect of Chinese pop background music on Chinese poetry reading comprehension	4
Laying the foundations for lifelong family music practices through Music Early Learning Programs	4
Music listening as a coping resource in domestic and international university students	4
Exploring the functions of music in the lives of young people on the autism spectrum	4
A PRISMA review of research on feedback in music education and music psychology	4
A social support scale for music students in music schools, academies, and conservatories: An adaptation into Spanish and a factorial invariance study	4
Free rider recognition—A missing link in the Baldwinian model of music evolution	4

Soundtrack for reality? How to use music effectively in non-fictional media formats	4
The effect of music in anxiety reduction: A psychological and physiological assessment	4
Independent music-making during Covid-19 and mental health	4
The production of broad and strict senses in the discourse on musical creativity and their influences on the self-concept of musicians as creative	4
Music self-efficacy predicted by self-esteem, grit, and (in)formal learning preferences among amateur musicians who use online music tutorials	4
“I hate this part right here”: Embodied, subjective experiences of listening to aversive music	4
Experienced workload, stress, and coping among professional students in higher music education: An explanatory mixed methods study in Finland and the United Kingdom	4
Perceived mechanisms targeting cancer-related fatigue, song choice rationale, and song function: An interpretivist study of patient-preferred live music with adult oncology patients on a blood and mar	4
Stories of the role musicking plays in coping with the COVID-19 pandemic in South Africa	4
Indirect effects of preference for intense music on mental health through positive and negative affect	4
The conductor’s intensity gestures	4
Investigating the effects of background noise and music on cognitive test performance in introverts and extraverts: A cross-cultural study	4
Popular music lyrics and the COVID-19 pandemic	4
Physical exercise increases perceived musical pleasure: Modulatory roles of arousal, affect, or dopamine?	4
Stereotypically gay- and straight-sounding auditory cues change adolescent music students’ perceptions of men’s teaching effectiveness	4