Psychology of Music

Papers
(The median citation count of Psychology of Music is 1. 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.)
ArticleCitations
Concurrent musical pitch height biases judgment of visual brightness36
A moderated mediation study of music engagement, adaptive music listening, and dreaming25
Effects of amateur choir experience on forced-attention dichotic listening in older adults24
Syncopation levels, but not movement, are associated with pleasantness while listening to rhythmic music21
Functions of produced and observed gesture in choral singing17
Self-efficacy and music performance: A meta-analysis15
Calling the tune in maladaptive daydreaming: The impact of music on the experience of compulsive fantasizing15
The effects of prosocial lyrics music on attentional bias14
Predicting anxiety, depression, and wellbeing in professional and nonprofessional musicians14
Effects of attention focus instructions on amateur piano performance14
Music engagement for stress and anxiety in adults during the COVID-19 pandemic: A systematic review13
Paracusis musicalis: Insights on age-related absolute pitch decline12
Identity formation and possible selves of early career instrumental music teachers: A qualitative study12
Audiences’ emotional response to choir singing by people living with mental health conditions12
Emotional and musical factors combined with song-specific age predict the subjective autobiographical saliency of music in older adults12
Inside the piano studio: What teachers say about performance training, perfectionism, and performance anxiety12
Please don’t stop the music! A new look at the performance anxiety of musicians with the model of excellencism and perfectionism12
The effect of chord duration on the relative salience of chord-type and voicing changes12
Impacts of emotional self-awareness, emotional regulation, and performance anxiety on stage confidence in Chinese music students11
Effects of two modalities of practice on the learning of piano pieces under the deprivation of auditory feedback11
Cultivating meaning and self-transcendence to increase positive emotions and decrease anxiety in music performance10
Exploring intra-contextual influences in music emotion perception10
Sequential consonance/dissonance: Effects of chord directionality, cadences, and voice leading10
Exploring relations between Big Five personality traits and musical emotions embodied in spontaneous dance10
Musical mood induction: The relative influences of music type and the importance of music preference9
Beat perception in polyrhythms is influenced by spontaneous motor tempo, musicianship, and played musical style9
Hearing loss and mental health issues in amateur and professional musicians9
Are we all anxious about the same thing? A comparison of lay definitions of music making and performance in the context of music participation9
Environmental factors affecting classical music concert experience9
Development and validation of the Singing Voice Function Self-Efficacy Scale (Singing-VoSES)8
Situational belonging in high school band ensembles and high schools8
Just noticeable differences in sound intensity of piano tones in non-musicians and experienced pianists8
Harmonic expectancy violations: Testing the effects of familiarity, lead-in time, and ecological validity8
Perfectionism and impostor phenomenon among undergraduate music education majors8
The important role of self in cross-cultural investigations of affective experiences with music8
Burning out, fading away, and the sophomore slump: Critics’ versus fans’ ratings of music artists’ album quality over time8
The effect of background music on the aesthetic experience of a visual artwork in a naturalistic environment7
Psychometric properties of a scale of attitudes toward musical genres linked to social groups in Peru7
Alpha oscillations related to self-other integration and distinction during live orchestral performance: A naturalistic case study7
How does music contribute to well-being? Perspectives from homeless young adults with problematic psychoactive substance use7
Does genre make a difference? Classical orchestra/popular band musicians’ motivation, self-efficacy, and practice experiences’ effects on deliberate practice7
“Love lies”: A content analysis of romantic attachment style in popular music7
Personal strength and coping during the COVID-19 pandemic: A study of cultural workers in the music sector6
Embodiment of emotions in adolescents’ musical expression6
University musicians’ use of component cognitive skills in practice: A self-report study6
Very low association between multidimensional musical environment exposure and musical perception skills among children: Evidence from a large multilevel cross-sectional study6
Music preference, social identity, and collective self-esteem6
Spiralling Engagement Experiences of Creativity (SEEC): A process of research-led arts creation for facilitating experiences of flourishing in participants’ lives6
A cross-cultural study in Chinese and Western music: Cultural advantages in recognition of emotions6
How Australian singers experienced disruption to choir participation caused by pandemic lockdowns: A thematic analysis6
Meter without rhythmic pattern repetitions increases pre-attentive processing6
Comparing the emotional effects of semantic content and vocal expression of lyrics6
Predicting academic achievement in music in secondary schools: The role of personality and self-theories of musicality6
Immediacy, ensemble setup, and classroom space: A quasi-experimental study among secondary instrumental teachers and students6
Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and musical behaviour: The significance of context6
The MISE method: A new communicative approach for evaluating and training singing through mental imagery—Executive implications5
Comparing effects of sad melody versus sad lyrics on mood5
Exploring five professional violinists’ flow experiences during solo and chamber music performances: An interpretative phenomenological analysis5
Understanding the lived music listening experiences of adults on the autism spectrum5
Reminiscence bump invariance with respect to genre, age, and country5
Making sense of background music listening habits: An arousal and task-complexity account5
Song popularity and processing fluency of lyrics5
Experience and performance type modify anticipatory stress in musicians5
Perception and identification of tones in different timbres: Using pupil diameter to investigate absolute pitch ability5
Predicting singing ability from parents’ parental support and openness in high school students: Using a self-adjusted Goldsmiths Musical Sophistication Index Inventory5
Meditation as a tool to counteract music performance anxiety from the experts’ perspective5
What elicits music-evoked nostalgia? An exploratory study among college students4
Student-perceived social interactions in university musical ensembles predicted group identification4
Treatments for performance anxiety in musicians across the lifespan: A systematic review and meta-analysis4
Musical consonance in simple, static auditory stimuli and perceived pleasantness: The role of musical interval, harmonicity, and stimulus duration4
Meta-analysis on the effects of music participation on social and emotional measures across the lifespan4
An investigation of earworms and obsessive–compulsive traits using experience sampling and retrospective methods4
“A space to be myself ”: Music and self-determination in the lives of autistic adults4
Do emotions evoked by music modulate visuospatial working memory capacity? A physiological study4
Musical interpretative practices as a way to improve the relationship between the flow theory and musical performance4
Positive musical performance feedback facilitates general self-efficacy and choice of solo performance4
Putting practice under the microscope: The perceived uses and limitations of slow instrumental music practice4
Music therapeutic emotional processing (MEP): Expression, awareness, and pain predict therapeutic outcome4
Music teachers’ stance in action to develop student autonomy4
Distinguishing between musical excerpts learned by novices individually or in pairs4
Social identity, collective self-esteem, and musical preferences in electronic dance music culture: The role of emotions4
The cognitive and emotional content of music-evoked autobiographical memories in older adults4
Breaking with common practice: Exploring modernist musical emotion4
Music listening as a coping resource in domestic and international university students4
The effect of visual information on subliminal music-induced emotion4
The mental health of musicians: A scoping review4
Seeing sound, shaping stories: The role of ideasthesia and event segmentation in musically evoked narratives3
Groove as a multidimensional participatory experience3
Music consumption and uses in Japan3
Music self-efficacy predicted by self-esteem, grit, and (in)formal learning preferences among amateur musicians who use online music tutorials3
Participatory online music creation as a crisis response: A qualitative case study3
A PRISMA review of research on feedback in music education and music psychology3
How do children with hearing loss progress in group flute lessons compared to their normally hearing peers? A preliminary study3
Experienced workload, stress, and coping among professional students in higher music education: An explanatory mixed methods study in Finland and the United Kingdom3
Episode model: The functional approach to emotional experiences of music3
Validating scores from the short form of the Music Self-Perception Inventory (MUSPI-S) with seventh- to ninth-grade school students in Germany3
The first cut is the deepest: Exploring the importance of early musical experiences in the development of musical identities3
The impact of a focused listening experience on self-compassion and mental health help-seeking3
Dynamic audio-visual correspondence in musicians and non-musicians3
Slow pentatonic sequences facilitate sleep onset3
Comparing the comprehension of short stories paired with familiar and unfamiliar melodies and spoken text in autistic children3
From structural listening to daydreaming: Listening modes influence the individual experience in live concerts3
Effectiveness of Comprehensive Health-literacy And Relaxing Music (CHARM) intervention on pregnancy-related anxiety among low-risk primigravid women: A randomized controlled trial3
Determinants of motivation in world-class musicians and Olympic athletes: Exploring the front and the back side of the medallion3
Musician occupational and financial stress and mental health burden3
The musician’s personality: Do personality traits vary according to ensemble membership?3
Superior pitch identification ability revealed by cortical complexity measures in nonmusicians3
Rhythmic entrainment of heart rate as a mechanism for musical emotion induction: A plausible hypothesis in need of evidence?3
The support of autonomy, motivation, and music practice in university music students: A self-determination theory perspective3
Book Review: Ian Levy, Hip-Hop and Spoken Word Therapy in School Counseling: Developing Culturally Responsive Approaches3
Facilitator factors in community-based group singing: A scoping review3
Music and young people with intellectual disability: A scoping review3
Performing sex: The representation of male and female musicians in three genres of music performance3
Tones shape notes: The realization of lexical tones in Chaozhou songs2
The use of lullaby to support social and emotional wellness among parents during the COVID-19 pandemic2
Thoughtscapes in music: An examination of thought types occurring during music listening across 17 genres2
Musical training reduces the Colavita visual effect2
Free rider recognition—A missing link in the Baldwinian model of music evolution2
Measuring music-genre preferences: Discrepancies between direct and indirect methods2
Development and validation of the Music Cognitive Test: A music-based cognitive screening test2
Music performance anxiety and the Italian sport psychology S.F.E.R.A. model: An explorative study on 77 professional musicians2
Pedagogical approaches to promote self-regulation in musical instrument learning: A PRISMA scoping review2
What is the relationship between spontaneous interpersonal synchronization and feeling of connectedness? A study of small groups of students using MIDI percussion instruments2
The effects of sad music: Moderating role of cognitive reappraisal2
The potential of group music education for developing empathy: An empirical study2
Melodies are not a useful mnemonic cue for immediate word recall regardless of familiarity2
The association between divergent thinking, personality, and listening to classical music2
Singing interventions in depression: A scoping review2
A cognitive intervention to correct a maladaptive technique in organists due to prior music learning: A randomized controlled trial2
Deliberate practice in music: Development and psychometric validation of a standardized measurement instrument2
Corrigendum to Ageing and the orchestra: Self-efficacy and engagement in community music-making2
Becoming singular: Musical identity construction and maintenance through the lens of identity process theory2
Self-assessment in jazz improvisation2
Music-making facilitates acculturation and reduces acculturative stress: Evidence from a survey of migrants living in Germany2
Video-based categorization system and frequency analysis of gestures in saxophone playing2
Performance as theater: Expert pianists’ awareness of sight and sound in the concert2
Conversations from Arendelle: Children’s understanding of musical affect in a narrative, multimedia context2
Influence of musical activities on the prosocial behaviors of preschool children2
Spaced learning and melodic memory2
Beyond musical training: Individual influences on the perception of the speech-to-song illusion2
Concertmasters’ leading-tone intonation: Do they perform as they assess?2
Self-reported experiences of togetherness in classical music ensembles2
Different voice part perceptions in polyphonic and homophonic musical textures2
Relationships between financial, cultural, emotional, and general wellbeing: A structural equation modeling study2
Validation of the Measure of Emotions by Music (MEM)2
Risks and protective factors for injury among musicians: The impact of motivation, self-efficacy and rumination2
The effect of differentiated video presentations of choral performances on aesthetic responses of undergraduate choral and instrumental ensemble musicians1
No pain, no gain? Satisfaction and frustration of basic psychological needs, somatic burden, giving up, and life satisfaction in music students1
Effects of alexithymia and its subfactors on emotional response to music1
Does classical versus pop music influence coffee purchase likelihood?1
Psychosocial change across a drum corps season1
Spontaneous motor tempo modulates the effect of music tempo on arousal levels1
Perceptions surrounding the development of personal style in Cantonese opera among artists, connoisseurs, and beginner audiences in Hong Kong1
Visiting virtuosos’ expressivity across cultures: Acoustic analysis of a sanjo virtuoso’s performance1
Musical interaction in music therapy for depression treatment1
Editorial: Welcome by the new Editors-in-Chief1
Independent music-making during Covid-19 and mental health1
A scoping review and categorization of music and health psychometric inventories1
The Kenny Music Performance Anxiety Inventory-Revised (K-MPAI-R): Validation of the Italian version1
Sensorimotor synchronization with music and metronome in school-aged children1
Psychiatric diagnoses of professional musicians: Results of an outpatient service specializing in musicians’ health1
Professors’ motivational styles, future orientation, and engagement: A qualitative study in professor–student dyads in the school of music1
Effect of music emotion on mu and beta oscillations1
A text mining approach to the use of “groove” in everyday language1
Imprinting-like effects of early adolescent music1
The professional values of American undergraduate music majors1
Auditory affective priming: The role of trait anxiety and stimulus type1
The use of music in the daily care of an infant: Exploring a mother’s experience during the COVID-19 pandemic1
The role of family musical involvement in family relationships1
The HEXACO personality profile of musicians1
Predictors of work engagement in professional musicians during the COVID-19 pandemic1
Synaesthesia is linked to differences in music preference and musical sophistication and a distinctive pattern of sound-color associations1
An examination of collegiate musicians’ ability to discern conductor intent1
Book Review: Lisa J Lehmberg and C Victor Fung, Music, Senior Centers, and Quality of Life1
Opening up openings: Zooming in on improvisation in the Theater of Home1
Investigating the impact of age on auditory short-term, long-term, and working memory1
Comparing the aesthetic experience of classic–romantic and contemporary classical music: An interview study1
How do adolescents engage with music in spare time? Leisure patterns and their relation with socio-demographic characteristics, well-being, and risk behaviors1
Erratum to Characteristics of music performance anxiety among undergraduate music students: A systematic review1
The impact of musicking on emotion regulation: A systematic review and meta-analysis1
Corrigendum to Goldsmiths Musical Sophistication Index (Gold-MSI): Portuguese version and associations with socio-demographic factors, personality and music preferences1
Help me study! Music listening habits while studying1
Remedial interventions for developmental dyslexia: Comparing the rhythmic reading training to the “Abilmente” approach1
Relationships between music performance anxiety and impostor phenomenon responses of graduate music performance students1
Musicians are faster to process hierarchical Navon letters1
The association between music performance skills and cognitive improvement in a musical instrument training program for older adults1
Characteristics of music performance anxiety among undergraduate music students: A systematic review1
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