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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)

Article	Citations
Concurrent musical pitch height biases judgment of visual brightness	36
A moderated mediation study of music engagement, adaptive music listening, and dreaming	25
Effects of amateur choir experience on forced-attention dichotic listening in older adults	24
Syncopation levels, but not movement, are associated with pleasantness while listening to rhythmic music	21
Functions of produced and observed gesture in choral singing	17
Self-efficacy and music performance: A meta-analysis	15
Calling the tune in maladaptive daydreaming: The impact of music on the experience of compulsive fantasizing	15
Predicting anxiety, depression, and wellbeing in professional and nonprofessional musicians	14
Effects of attention focus instructions on amateur piano performance	14
The effects of prosocial lyrics music on attentional bias	14
Music engagement for stress and anxiety in adults during the COVID-19 pandemic: A systematic review	13
Audiences’ emotional response to choir singing by people living with mental health conditions	12
Emotional and musical factors combined with song-specific age predict the subjective autobiographical saliency of music in older adults	12
Inside the piano studio: What teachers say about performance training, perfectionism, and performance anxiety	12
Please don’t stop the music! A new look at the performance anxiety of musicians with the model of excellencism and perfectionism	12
The effect of chord duration on the relative salience of chord-type and voicing changes	12
Paracusis musicalis: Insights on age-related absolute pitch decline	12
Identity formation and possible selves of early career instrumental music teachers: A qualitative study	12
Effects of two modalities of practice on the learning of piano pieces under the deprivation of auditory feedback	11
Impacts of emotional self-awareness, emotional regulation, and performance anxiety on stage confidence in Chinese music students	11
Exploring intra-contextual influences in music emotion perception	10
Sequential consonance/dissonance: Effects of chord directionality, cadences, and voice leading	10
Exploring relations between Big Five personality traits and musical emotions embodied in spontaneous dance	10
Cultivating meaning and self-transcendence to increase positive emotions and decrease anxiety in music performance	10
Hearing loss and mental health issues in amateur and professional musicians	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
Environmental factors affecting classical music concert experience	9
Musical mood induction: The relative influences of music type and the importance of music preference	9
Beat perception in polyrhythms is influenced by spontaneous motor tempo, musicianship, and played musical style	9
Situational belonging in high school band ensembles and high schools	8
Just noticeable differences in sound intensity of piano tones in non-musicians and experienced pianists	8
Harmonic expectancy violations: Testing the effects of familiarity, lead-in time, and ecological validity	8
Perfectionism and impostor phenomenon among undergraduate music education majors	8
The important role of self in cross-cultural investigations of affective experiences with music	8
Burning out, fading away, and the sophomore slump: Critics’ versus fans’ ratings of music artists’ album quality over time	8
Development and validation of the Singing Voice Function Self-Efficacy Scale (Singing-VoSES)	8
Alpha oscillations related to self-other integration and distinction during live orchestral performance: A naturalistic case study	7
How does music contribute to well-being? Perspectives from homeless young adults with problematic psychoactive substance use	7
Does genre make a difference? Classical orchestra/popular band musicians’ motivation, self-efficacy, and practice experiences’ effects on deliberate practice	7
“Love lies”: A content analysis of romantic attachment style in popular music	7
The effect of background music on the aesthetic experience of a visual artwork in a naturalistic environment	7
Psychometric properties of a scale of attitudes toward musical genres linked to social groups in Peru	7
Spiralling Engagement Experiences of Creativity (SEEC): A process of research-led arts creation for facilitating experiences of flourishing in participants’ lives	6
A cross-cultural study in Chinese and Western music: Cultural advantages in recognition of emotions	6
How Australian singers experienced disruption to choir participation caused by pandemic lockdowns: A thematic analysis	6
Meter without rhythmic pattern repetitions increases pre-attentive processing	6
Comparing the emotional effects of semantic content and vocal expression of lyrics	6
Predicting academic achievement in music in secondary schools: The role of personality and self-theories of musicality	6
Immediacy, ensemble setup, and classroom space: A quasi-experimental study among secondary instrumental teachers and students	6
Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and musical behaviour: The significance of context	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
University musicians’ use of component cognitive skills in practice: A self-report study	6
Very low association between multidimensional musical environment exposure and musical perception skills among children: Evidence from a large multilevel cross-sectional study	6
Music preference, social identity, and collective self-esteem	6
Understanding the lived music listening experiences of adults on the autism spectrum	5
Reminiscence bump invariance with respect to genre, age, and country	5
Making sense of background music listening habits: An arousal and task-complexity account	5
Song popularity and processing fluency of lyrics	5
Experience and performance type modify anticipatory stress in musicians	5
Perception and identification of tones in different timbres: Using pupil diameter to investigate absolute pitch ability	5
Predicting singing ability from parents’ parental support and openness in high school students: Using a self-adjusted Goldsmiths Musical Sophistication Index Inventory	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
Comparing effects of sad melody versus sad lyrics on mood	5
Exploring five professional violinists’ flow experiences during solo and chamber music performances: An interpretative phenomenological analysis	5
“A space to be myself ”: Music and self-determination in the lives of autistic adults	4
Do emotions evoked by music modulate visuospatial working memory capacity? A physiological study	4
Musical interpretative practices as a way to improve the relationship between the flow theory and musical performance	4
Positive musical performance feedback facilitates general self-efficacy and choice of solo performance	4
Putting practice under the microscope: The perceived uses and limitations of slow instrumental music practice	4
Music therapeutic emotional processing (MEP): Expression, awareness, and pain predict therapeutic outcome	4
Music teachers’ stance in action to develop student autonomy	4
Distinguishing between musical excerpts learned by novices individually or in pairs	4
Social identity, collective self-esteem, and musical preferences in electronic dance music culture: The role of emotions	4

The cognitive and emotional content of music-evoked autobiographical memories in older adults	4
Breaking with common practice: Exploring modernist musical emotion	4
Music listening as a coping resource in domestic and international university students	4
The effect of visual information on subliminal music-induced emotion	4
The mental health of musicians: A scoping review	4
What elicits music-evoked nostalgia? An exploratory study among college students	4
Student-perceived social interactions in university musical ensembles predicted group identification	4
Treatments for performance anxiety in musicians across the lifespan: A systematic review and meta-analysis	4
Musical consonance in simple, static auditory stimuli and perceived pleasantness: The role of musical interval, harmonicity, and stimulus duration	4
Meta-analysis on the effects of music participation on social and emotional measures across the lifespan	4
An investigation of earworms and obsessive–compulsive traits using experience sampling and retrospective methods	4