Psychology of Music

Article	Citations
The psychological benefits of music-evoked nostalgia	32
Music and COVID-19: Changes in uses and emotional reaction to music under stay-at-home restrictions	24
How does music performance anxiety relate to other anxiety disorders?	22
The well-being of music educators during the pandemic Spring of 2020	19
Flow in music performance and music-listening: Differences in intensity, predictors, and the relationship between flow and subjective well-being	18
When words matter: A cross-cultural perspective on lyrics and their relationship to musical emotions	17
Music performance anxiety and perfectionism in Croatian musicians	17
Higher music education students’ experiences and management of performance anxiety: A qualitative study	14
Making sense of background music listening habits: An arousal and task-complexity account	14
The relationship between early musical training and executive functions: Validation of effects of the sensitive period	13
Predicting anxiety, depression, and wellbeing in professional and nonprofessional musicians	13
Collaborative learning experiences in the university jazz/creative music ensemble: Student perspectives on instructional communication	13
Characteristics of music performance anxiety among undergraduate music students: A systematic review	13
Predictors of music performance anxiety in conservatory students	12
Higher empathy is associated with stronger social bonding when moving together with music	11
Musician occupational and financial stress and mental health burden	11
A PRISMA review of expectancy-value theory in music contexts	10
Non-random acts of kindness: Joint music making increases preschoolers’ helping and sharing with an adult	9
The effect of mental practice on music memorization	9
The effects of emotionally congruent sad music listening in young adults high in rumination	9
A critical review of child perfectionism as it relates to music pedagogy	9
Maladaptive music listening strategies are modulated by individual traits	9
Performers of the night: Examining the mental health of electronic music artists	9
Flow and music performance: Professional musicians and music students’ views	9
Parent-child nonverbal engagement during spoken versus sung book-sharing in preschoolers with and without autism	8

How to dress to impress: The effect of concert dress type on perceptions of female classical pianists	8
The effect of metacognitive strategies-based teaching practice in guitar education on performance achievement	8
The effect of background music on the aesthetic experience of a visual artwork in a naturalistic environment	8
Changes in mood, oxytocin, and cortisol following group and individual singing: A pilot study	8
A PRISMA review of research on feedback in music education and music psychology	8
The show must go on: Pandemic consequences on musicians’ job insecurity perception	8
Experiences of developing pre-performance routines with recreational pianists	8
Music and mindfulness meditation: Comparing four music stimuli composed under similar principles	8
Sensorimotor synchronization with music and metronome in school-aged children	8
Measuring emotional music experience: Spreading activation and BRECVEMA mechanisms	7
Investigating the effects of background noise and music on cognitive test performance in introverts and extraverts: A cross-cultural study	7
Free rider recognition—A missing link in the Baldwinian model of music evolution	7
Soundtrack for reality? How to use music effectively in non-fictional media formats	7
The relationship between extracurricular music activity participation and music and Chinese language academic achievements of primary school students in China	7
Neural activation of different music styles during emotion-evoking	7
The effect of Chinese pop background music on Chinese poetry reading comprehension	7
Choral singing and personal well-being: A Choral Activity Perceived Benefits Scale (CAPBES)	7
Comparing the aesthetic experience of classic–romantic and contemporary classical music: An interview study	7
Musical interaction in music therapy for depression treatment	6
Exploring the functions of music in the lives of young people on the autism spectrum	6
The Kenny Music Performance Anxiety Inventory–Revised (K-MPAI-R): Validation of the French version	6
Out of tune: Perceptions of, engagement with, and responses to mental health interventions by professional popular musicians—A scoping review	6
Music, sleep, and depression: An interview study	6
Infants’ overlapping vocalizations during maternal humming: Contributions to the synchronization of preterm dyads	6
Augmented visual-feedback of airflow: Immediate effects on voice-source characteristics of students of singing	6
Music self-efficacy predicted by self-esteem, grit, and (in)formal learning preferences among amateur musicians who use online music tutorials	6
“I hate this part right here”: Embodied, subjective experiences of listening to aversive music	6
RETRACTED: Effect of Internet-mediated music therapy intervention on reduction in generalized anxiety disorder symptoms among displaced Nigerians of the Russia–Ukraine war	6
Stories of the role musicking plays in coping with the COVID-19 pandemic in South Africa	6
Evaluating the three-network theory of creativity: Effects of music listening on resting state EEG	6
Does music help regulate depressive symptoms for fans of violently themed music?	6
Slow practice and tempo-management strategies in instrumental music learning: Investigating prevalence and cognitive functions	6
What makes practice perfect? How tertiary piano students self-regulate play and non-play strategies for performance success	6
Music preference, social identity, and collective self-esteem	6
The effects of setting and music on the intention to participate in out-of-school music classes: An experimental video vignette study	6
Teaching methods that foster self-efficacy belief: Perceptions of collegiate musicians from the United States	6
Experiences of group therapeutic songwriting of family caregivers of people with dementia	5
Regulating sadness: Response-independent and response-dependent benefits of listening to music	5
Multimodal recognition of emotions in music and language	5
The effect of playing background music during dental treatment on dental anxiety and physiological parameters: A systematic review and meta-analysis	5
Stereotypically gay- and straight-sounding auditory cues change adolescent music students’ perceptions of men’s teaching effectiveness	5
Empathy but not musicality is at the root of musical reward: A behavioral study with adults and children	5
Music listening as a coping resource in domestic and international university students	5
The relationship between music performance anxiety and self-efficacy in sixth- to eighth-grade instrumental students	5
Popular music lyrics and the COVID-19 pandemic	5
More horror due to specific music placement? Effects of film music on psychophysiological responses to a horror film	5
Face the music: Children’s facial affect in musical imitation and improvisation tasks	5
The effects of prosocial lyrics music on attentional bias	5
Physical exercise increases perceived musical pleasure: Modulatory roles of arousal, affect, or dopamine?	5
Positive mood induction through music: The significance of listener age and musical timbre	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
Toward a triangular theory of love for one’s musical instrument	4
The phantoms of the opera—Stress offstage and stress onstage	4
Environmental factors affecting classical music concert experience	4
Linking musical metaphors and emotions evoked by the sound of classical music	4
The mechanism and neural substrate of musical emotions in the audio-visual modality	4
Validation of the Music Empathizing inventory in China	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
Is gender role self-concept a predictor for music class attendance? Findings from secondary schools in Lower Saxony (Germany)	4
“The most relaxing song in the world”? A comparative study	4
The Pythagorean comma and preference for a stretched octave	4
Perception of the usability of music-genre labels for the assessment of musical tastes	4
Common neural bases for processing speech prosody and music: An integrated model	4
The sound of social class: Do music preferences signal status?	4
Independent music-making during Covid-19 and mental health	4
Investigating the impact of age on auditory short-term, long-term, and working memory	4
Feedback in the instrumental music lesson: A qualitative study	4
Alpha oscillations related to self-other integration and distinction during live orchestral performance: A naturalistic case study	4
The influence of socioeconomic status, parents, peers, psychological needs, and task values on middle school student motivation for school music ensemble participation	4
The emotion trajectory of self-selected jazz music with lyrics: A psychophysiological perspective	4
A social support scale for music students in music schools, academies, and conservatories: An adaptation into Spanish and a factorial invariance study	4
The effect of music in anxiety reduction: A psychological and physiological assessment	4
The mediating role of music preference in the relationship between personality and pro-sociability	4
Love of one’s musical instrument as a predictor of happiness and satisfaction with musical experience	3
Efficacy of music therapy in the treatment of anxiety among children at social risk and those have committed child to parent violence	3
The impact of background music on learners: A systematic review and meta-analysis	3
“I don’t know how musically creative they should be at that age”: A qualitative study of parents’ and teachers’ beliefs about young children’s creative and musical capacities	3
Does genre make a difference? Classical orchestra/popular band musicians’ motivation, self-efficacy, and practice experiences’ effects on deliberate practice	3
Small music ensemble and empathy: A replication study in a South Korean music student sample	3
Undergraduate students with musical training report less conflict in interpersonal relationships	3
A randomized pilot study of patient-preferred live music addressing fatigue, energy, and pain in adults on a medical oncology/hematology unit	3
Personality and engagement with music: Results from network modeling in three adolescent samples	3
The efficacy of cognitive and behavioral interventions upon music performance anxiety: A meta-analysis	3
The influence of “happy” and “sad” background music on complexity, accuracy, and fluency of second-language speaking	3
Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and musical behaviour: The significance of context	3
Reasons for participating in musical activities and their relationship with well-being during and before Covid-19	3
Performing sex: The representation of male and female musicians in three genres of music performance	3
COVID-19 pandemic: Does musicianship matter?	3
Relative salience of chord-type and chord-voicing changes: A two-oddball paradigm	3
Musical training reduces the Colavita visual effect	3
The interplay of personal values and uses of music in explaining music listener preferences	3
Perceptions surrounding the development of personal style in Cantonese opera among artists, connoisseurs, and beginner audiences in Hong Kong	3
Social and dimensional comparison effects on children’s music self-concept and intrinsic value: An extension of the generalized internal/external frame of reference model to the music domain	3
The Kenny Music Performance Anxiety Inventory-Revised (K-MPAI-R): Validation of the Italian version	3
Attribute accessibility, normative influence, and the effect of classical and country music on willingness to pay for social identity and utilitarian products	3
Music genre and volume do not modulate energy intake, short-term satiety, and mood states: A randomized controlled trial	3
What do adults think of music across the lifespan?	3
An exploratory interpretivist study of how adults with substance use disorders experience peer social connectedness during recovery-oriented songwriting	3
Just noticeable differences in sound intensity of piano tones in non-musicians and experienced pianists	3
Music and facial emotion recognition and its relationship with alexithymia	3
General Musical Self-Efficacy Scale: Adaptation and validation of a version in Spanish	3
The effects of Chinese and English background music on Chinese reading comprehension	3
A stressful task is when to turn off the music: Effect of music on task performance mediated by cognitive effort	3
Shared musical activity and perceptions of relationship commitment	3
Effects of attention focus instructions on amateur piano performance	3
Intersections and conflicts between adolescent boys’ musical possible selves, university study, and parent values	3
Understanding the lived music listening experiences of adults on the autism spectrum	3
Effects of emotionally incongruent musical excerpts on memory retrieval	2
#100daysofpractice: Selection and adaptation of self-regulated learning strategies in an online music performance challenge	2
Teaching musical learning as problem-solving: Applying a theory of musical intelligence to musical instruction	2
Musical pantophagy: Is there an effect on changes in preference resulting from repeated exposure?	2
Exploring historic changes in musical communication: Deconstructing emotional cues in preludes by Bach and Chopin	2
Do emotions evoked by music modulate visuospatial working memory capacity? A physiological study	2
Exploring change in networks supporting the deliberate practice of popular musicians	2
What elicits music-evoked nostalgia? An exploratory study among college students	2
Effect of music emotion on mu and beta oscillations	2
Fantastic four! Problem-solving processes of a professional string quartet	2
A quantitative analysis of two improvisation assessment instruments	2
“All bets are off”: Flexible engagement with music-listening technologies by autistic adults	2
Reading the Romancero: A journey from the score to the sound with a non-professional choir	2
Empirical links between emotions and listening to music mid- and post-exercise	2
Effect of specific melodic scales of Indian music in reducing state and trait anxiety: A randomized clinical trial	2
Music therapeutic emotional processing (MEP): Expression, awareness, and pain predict therapeutic outcome	2
Ironically enjoyed music: An investigation of the unique self-regulatory value of irony as part of the enjoyment of music	2
Student-perceived social interactions in university musical ensembles predicted group identification	2
The problem of universals in cross-cultural studies: Insights from Sámi animal melodies (yoik)	2
Development and validation of a measure of instrumental practice–related affect	2
Singing lessons as a path to well-being in later life	2
Can’t clap to a beat? How rhythmically challenged people experience and strategize keeping time to music	2
The effects of sensory deprivations during the initial practice of short piano pieces: An experiment with four students at different academic levels	2

Measuring music-genre preferences: Discrepancies between direct and indirect methods	2
Predicting academic achievement in music in secondary schools: The role of personality and self-theories of musicality	2
Does classical versus pop music influence coffee purchase likelihood?	2
Putting practice under the microscope: The perceived uses and limitations of slow instrumental music practice	2
Musical interpretative practices as a way to improve the relationship between the flow theory and musical performance	2
Invariance of edit-distance to tempo in rhythm similarity	2
How musicality changes moral consideration: People judge musical entities as more wrong to harm	2
Melodic contours of maternal humming to preterm infants in kangaroo care and infants’ overlapping vocalizations: A microanalytical study	2
Dynamic audio-visual correspondence in musicians and non-musicians	2
Musical DIAMONDS: The influence of situational classes and characteristics on music listening behavior	2
The effect of varying encoding conditions on jazz, instrumental, and choral musicians’ memorization accuracy: Implications for music literacy	2
The adaptation and validation of the Goldsmiths Musical Sophistication Index (Gold-MSI) in Italian: The Gold-MSI-IT	1
Effects of a group music-based intervention in improving attachment and psychosocial adaptation in adolescents with parental attachment insecurity: A randomized trial	1
Deliberate practice in music: Development and psychometric validation of a standardized measurement instrument	1
Analysis of between-diagnoses differences in music-based affect regulatory strategies in adults with mental health and substance use conditions: Implications for transdiagnostic application	1
The effect of mindfulness meditation on the vocal proficiencies of music education students	1
Comparing the benefits of parent–infant flute and singing groups for communication and parenting: A feasibility study	1
Affective priming caused by musical chords on human facial expressions	1
At the intersection of belief and practice: A mixed-methods study of elementary general music educator praxis	1
Exploring relations between Big Five personality traits and musical emotions embodied in spontaneous dance	1
Music performance anxiety can be facilitating or debilitating: Emotion accompaniment makes the difference	1
Mind wandering and musical creativity in jazz improvisation	1
Trait mindfulness plays a protective role in the positive relationships between stress, depressive symptoms, and suicidal behavior in an at-risk population: Music industry touring professionals	1
Play it, Sam! Psychological and physiological discomfort after music abstinence	1
Toward effective performance psychology interventions in tertiary music education: An exploration of students’ experiences, attitudes, and preferences	1
The effect of organizational musical therapy on reducing the stress level of health care professionals in a public hospital	1
Charity begins with prosocial music: Musical differences in intertemporal prosocial discounting and generosity	1
University musicians’ use of component cognitive skills in practice: A self-report study	1
Defining “happy” in happy birthday: Singing accuracy a construct based on range and intervals	1
College music students during COVID-19: Examining the moderating effect of access to resources and stability of living on the relationship between perceived social support and mental health	1
Comparing effects of sad melody versus sad lyrics on mood	1
Music performance anxiety and the Italian sport psychology S.F.E.R.A. model: An explorative study on 77 professional musicians	1
The role of music-induced emotions on recognition memory of filmed events	1
Groove as a multidimensional participatory experience	1
Imprinting-like effects of early adolescent music	1
The effect of visual and auditory feedback on adult poor-pitch remediation	1
Visiting virtuosos’ expressivity across cultures: Acoustic analysis of a sanjo virtuoso’s performance	1
Calling the tune in maladaptive daydreaming: The impact of music on the experience of compulsive fantasizing	1
The potential of group music education for developing empathy: An empirical study	1
Written in the face? Facial expressions during pleasant and unpleasant chills	1
The effects of group keyboard music making on the mood states of college students	1
A cognitive intervention to correct a maladaptive technique in organists due to prior music learning: A randomized controlled trial	1
Music performance anxiety and self-compassion in college-level music majors	1
The HEXACO personality profile of musicians	1
Self-efficacy and music performance: A meta-analysis	1
Development and validation of the Music Cognitive Test: A music-based cognitive screening test	1
Hearing loss and mental health issues in amateur and professional musicians	1
Book Review: Peter J. Renfrow, & Daniel J. Levitin, Foundations in Music Psychology: Theory and Research	1
Experience and performance type modify anticipatory stress in musicians	1
Children’s and adolescents’ engagement with music and the potential for (digital) empowerment processes: A text-mining-supported scoping review	1
Perception and identification of tones in different timbres: Using pupil diameter to investigate absolute pitch ability	1
Training babies for “sweet anticipation”: Emphasizing expectation arousal in infant-directed mother singing	1
Determinants of motivation in world-class musicians and Olympic athletes: Exploring the front and the back side of the medallion	1
Evaluative conditioning of responses to unfamiliar chords by exposure to valenced images	1
“Don’t forget Shakespeare”: A qualitative pilot study into the performance evaluations of orchestra audition panelists	1
Musical strategies to improve children’s memory in an educational context	1
Building musical lives: The impact of supporting musical play in the everyday lives of autistic children and their families	1
Role of expectancy in physiological responses to sound recognition of musical dissonance and timbral change	1
Song popularity and processing fluency of lyrics	1
Remedial interventions for developmental dyslexia: Comparing the rhythmic reading training to the “Abilmente” approach	1
Meditation as a tool to counteract music performance anxiety from the experts’ perspective	1
Craving for music increases after music listening and is related to earworms and personality	1
Detection of pitch errors in well-known songs	1
Separating the art from the artist: The role of narratives on music enjoyment and appreciation	1
Reminiscence bump invariance with respect to genre, age, and country	1