Psychology of Music

Article	Citations
The psychological benefits of music-evoked nostalgia	28
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
The well-being of music educators during the pandemic Spring of 2020	14
Music education students’ intrinsic and extrinsic motivation: A quantsitative analysis of personal narratives	12
Using a microanalysis intervention to examine shifts in musicians’ self-regulated learning	12
How does music performance anxiety relate to other anxiety disorders?	12
Collaborative learning experiences in the university jazz/creative music ensemble: Student perspectives on instructional communication	11
When words matter: A cross-cultural perspective on lyrics and their relationship to musical emotions	11
Patients choose music with high energy, danceability, and lyrics in analgesic music listening interventions	11
The relationship between early musical training and executive functions: Validation of effects of the sensitive period	11
Flow in music performance and music-listening: Differences in intensity, predictors, and the relationship between flow and subjective well-being	10
Creativity, music, and quality of later life: A systematic review	10
The effective music teacher: A model for predicting music teacher’s self-efficacy	9
The effect of mental practice on music memorization	9
Music major, affects, and positive music listening experience	9
Influence of personality on music-genre exclusivity	9
Higher music education students’ experiences and management of performance anxiety: A qualitative study	8
Predictors of music performance anxiety in conservatory students	8
Predicting anxiety, depression, and wellbeing in professional and nonprofessional musicians	8
How to dress to impress: The effect of concert dress type on perceptions of female classical pianists	8
Non-random acts of kindness: Joint music making increases preschoolers’ helping and sharing with an adult	8
Higher empathy is associated with stronger social bonding when moving together with music	8

Making sense of background music listening habits: An arousal and task-complexity account	8
Musician occupational and financial stress and mental health burden	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
Music performance anxiety and perfectionism in Croatian musicians	7
Effect of vocal versus piano doubling on children’s singing accuracy	7
Characteristics of music performance anxiety among undergraduate music students: A systematic review	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
The relationship between uses of music, musical taste, age, and life goals	7
Music early learning programs: Enduring outcomes for children and their families	6
Book review: Cslovjecsek, M., & Zulauf, M. (Eds.). Integrated music education. Challenges for teaching and teacher training	6
Changes in mood, oxytocin, and cortisol following group and individual singing: A pilot study	6
Pre-performance routines for music students: An experimental pilot study	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
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
Flow and music performance: Professional musicians and music students’ views	6
Does music help regulate depressive symptoms for fans of violently themed music?	6
Neural activation of different music styles during emotion-evoking	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
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
The effect of metacognitive strategies-based teaching practice in guitar education on performance achievement	6
The sound of music on the pocket: A study of background music in retail	6
A PRISMA review of expectancy-value theory in music contexts	6
Maladaptive music listening strategies are modulated by individual traits	5
Infants’ overlapping vocalizations during maternal humming: Contributions to the synchronization of preterm dyads	5
Music-induced analgesia: An adjunct to pain management	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
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
Measuring emotional music experience: Spreading activation and BRECVEMA mechanisms	5
Face the music: Children’s facial affect in musical imitation and improvisation tasks	5
Affective experiences to chords are modulated by mode, meter, tempo, and subjective entrainment	5
“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
Experiences of group therapeutic songwriting of family caregivers of people with dementia	4
Indirect effects of preference for intense music on mental health through positive and negative affect	4
The effect of music in anxiety reduction: A psychological and physiological assessment	4
Effects of prosocial lyrics and musical production elements on emotions, thoughts and behavior	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
Teaching methods that foster self-efficacy belief: Perceptions of collegiate musicians from the United States	4

Laying the foundations for lifelong family music practices through Music Early Learning Programs	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
Slow practice and tempo-management strategies in instrumental music learning: Investigating prevalence and cognitive functions	4
Augmented visual-feedback of airflow: Immediate effects on voice-source characteristics of students of singing	4
Challenging the presumptive link between musical preference and aggression	4
“Ngeli”: Flowing together in a Gamelan ensemble	4
The effect of Chinese pop background music on Chinese poetry reading comprehension	4
Stories of the role musicking plays in coping with the COVID-19 pandemic in South Africa	4
Soundtrack for reality? How to use music effectively in non-fictional media formats	4
Music and mindfulness meditation: Comparing four music stimuli composed under similar principles	4
Music listening as a coping resource in domestic and international university students	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
Popular music lyrics and the COVID-19 pandemic	4
Physical exercise increases perceived musical pleasure: Modulatory roles of arousal, affect, or dopamine?	4
A randomized pilot study of patient-preferred live music addressing fatigue, energy, and pain in adults on a medical oncology/hematology unit	3
The Kenny Music Performance Anxiety Inventory-Revised (K-MPAI-R): Validation of the Italian version	3
Stereotypically gay- and straight-sounding auditory cues change adolescent music students’ perceptions of men’s teaching effectiveness	3
Does genre make a difference? Classical orchestra/popular band musicians’ motivation, self-efficacy, and practice experiences’ effects on deliberate practice	3
Music self-efficacy predicted by self-esteem, grit, and (in)formal learning preferences among amateur musicians who use online music tutorials	3
The emotion trajectory of self-selected jazz music with lyrics: A psychophysiological perspective	3
Predicting success in the performing arts: Ballet and music	3
Multimodal recognition of emotions in music and language	3
The thinking person’s music: Heavy metal and the need for cognition	3
Musical training reduces the Colavita visual effect	3
Music, body movement, and dance intervention program for children with developmental coordination disorder	3
Comparing the aesthetic experience of classic–romantic and contemporary classical music: An interview study	3
The effect of playing background music during dental treatment on dental anxiety and physiological parameters: A systematic review and meta-analysis	3
The effects of prosocial lyrics music on attentional bias	3
More horror due to specific music placement? Effects of film music on psychophysiological responses to a horror film	3
The phantoms of the opera—Stress offstage and stress onstage	3
The effects of setting and music on the intention to participate in out-of-school music classes: An experimental video vignette study	3
Polish adaptation of the Geneva Emotional Music Scale: Factor structure and reliability	3
The effect of background music on the aesthetic experience of a visual artwork in a naturalistic environment	3
Linking musical metaphors and emotions evoked by the sound of classical music	3
The effects of music induction on mood and affect in an Asian context	3
Undergraduate students with musical training report less conflict in interpersonal relationships	3
Independent music-making during Covid-19 and mental health	3
The relationship between extracurricular music activity participation and music and Chinese language academic achievements of primary school students in China	3
The relationship between music performance anxiety and self-efficacy in sixth- to eighth-grade instrumental students	3
Sensorimotor synchronization with music and metronome in school-aged children	3
Validation of the Music Empathizing inventory in China	3
Music, sleep, and depression: An interview study	3
“The most relaxing song in the world”? A comparative study	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
Experiences of developing pre-performance routines with recreational pianists	3
Environmental factors affecting classical music concert experience	3
Common neural bases for processing speech prosody and music: An integrated model	3
Music experience is associated with lower depression level and higher quality of life among family caregivers of critically ill patients	3
Perceptions surrounding the development of personal style in Cantonese opera among artists, connoisseurs, and beginner audiences in Hong Kong	3
The mechanism and neural substrate of musical emotions in the audio-visual modality	3
Performing sex: The representation of male and female musicians in three genres of music performance	2
Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and musical behaviour: The significance of context	2
Effect of specific melodic scales of Indian music in reducing state and trait anxiety: A randomized clinical trial	2
The effect of varying encoding conditions on jazz, instrumental, and choral musicians’ memorization accuracy: Implications for music literacy	2
The Pythagorean comma and preference for a stretched octave	2
What makes practice perfect? How tertiary piano students self-regulate play and non-play strategies for performance success	2
Toward a triangular theory of love for one’s musical instrument	2
General Musical Self-Efficacy Scale: Adaptation and validation of a version in Spanish	2
Evaluating the three-network theory of creativity: Effects of music listening on resting state EEG	2
How musicality changes moral consideration: People judge musical entities as more wrong to harm	2
Shared musical activity and perceptions of relationship commitment	2
What elicits music-evoked nostalgia? An exploratory study among college students	2
Attribute accessibility, normative influence, and the effect of classical and country music on willingness to pay for social identity and utilitarian products	2
Music preference, social identity, and collective self-esteem	2
Learning melodic musical intervals: To block or to interleave?	2
Empirical links between emotions and listening to music mid- and post-exercise	2
“All bets are off”: Flexible engagement with music-listening technologies by autistic adults	2
Music and facial emotion recognition and its relationship with alexithymia	2
Singing lessons as a path to well-being in later life	2
Teaching musical learning as problem-solving: Applying a theory of musical intelligence to musical instruction	2
Putting practice under the microscope: The perceived uses and limitations of slow instrumental music practice	2
Relative salience of chord-type and chord-voicing changes: A two-oddball paradigm	2
Ironically enjoyed music: An investigation of the unique self-regulatory value of irony as part of the enjoyment of music	2
Invariance of edit-distance to tempo in rhythm similarity	2
Mind wandering and musical creativity in jazz improvisation	2
The mediating role of music preference in the relationship between personality and pro-sociability	2
Empathy but not musicality is at the root of musical reward: A behavioral study with adults and children	2
The efficacy of cognitive and behavioral interventions upon music performance anxiety: A meta-analysis	2
Reading the Romancero: A journey from the score to the sound with a non-professional choir	2

The influence of “happy” and “sad” background music on complexity, accuracy, and fluency of second-language speaking	2
Measuring music-genre preferences: Discrepancies between direct and indirect methods	2
What do adults think of music across the lifespan?	2
Regulating sadness: Response-independent and response-dependent benefits of listening to music	2
Feedback in the instrumental music lesson: A qualitative study	2
Is gender role self-concept a predictor for music class attendance? Findings from secondary schools in Lower Saxony (Germany)	2
Music therapeutic emotional processing (MEP): Expression, awareness, and pain predict therapeutic outcome	2
Small music ensemble and empathy: A replication study in a South Korean music student sample	2
Exploring change in networks supporting the deliberate practice of popular musicians	2
The sound of social class: Do music preferences signal status?	2
The problem of universals in cross-cultural studies: Insights from Sámi animal melodies (yoik)	2
Intersections and conflicts between adolescent boys’ musical possible selves, university study, and parent values	2
An exploratory interpretivist study of how adults with substance use disorders experience peer social connectedness during recovery-oriented songwriting	2
Development and validation of a measure of instrumental practice–related affect	2
Personality and engagement with music: Results from network modeling in three adolescent samples	1
The effect of mindfulness meditation on the vocal proficiencies of music education students	1
Musical pantophagy: Is there an effect on changes in preference resulting from repeated exposure?	1
The effect of visual and auditory feedback on adult poor-pitch remediation	1
Comparing the benefits of parent–infant flute and singing groups for communication and parenting: A feasibility study	1
Exploring historic changes in musical communication: Deconstructing emotional cues in preludes by Bach and Chopin	1
Visiting virtuosos’ expressivity across cultures: Acoustic analysis of a sanjo virtuoso’s performance	1
The interplay of personal values and uses of music in explaining music listener preferences	1
#100daysofpractice: Selection and adaptation of self-regulated learning strategies in an online music performance challenge	1
Play it, Sam! Psychological and physiological discomfort after music abstinence	1
The effect of physical movement on observers’ perception of musical quality in a choral performance	1
The transfer of group practice strategy instruction to beginning instrumentalists’ individual practice	1
Melodic contours of maternal humming to preterm infants in kangaroo care and infants’ overlapping vocalizations: A microanalytical study	1
Love of one’s musical instrument as a predictor of happiness and satisfaction with musical experience	1
Effects of a group music-based intervention in improving attachment and psychosocial adaptation in adolescents with parental attachment insecurity: A randomized trial	1
Written in the face? Facial expressions during pleasant and unpleasant chills	1
Music genre and volume do not modulate energy intake, short-term satiety, and mood states: A randomized controlled trial	1
Positive mood induction through music: The significance of listener age and musical timbre	1
Training babies for “sweet anticipation”: Emphasizing expectation arousal in infant-directed mother singing	1
Evaluative conditioning of responses to unfamiliar chords by exposure to valenced images	1
Affective priming caused by musical chords on human facial expressions	1
Expression of Concern	1
Book Review: Lola L. Cuddy, Sylvie Belleville, and Aline Moussard (Eds.). Music and the aging brain	1
Musical strategies to improve children’s memory in an educational context	1
The effects of Chinese and English background music on Chinese reading comprehension	1
What is your thought process during sight-reading? Advanced sight-readers’ strategies across different tonal environments	1
Remedial interventions for developmental dyslexia: Comparing the rhythmic reading training to the “Abilmente” approach	1
Efficacy of music therapy in the treatment of anxiety among children at social risk and those have committed child to parent violence	1
The effect of organizational musical therapy on reducing the stress level of health care professionals in a public hospital	1
Musical interpretative practices as a way to improve the relationship between the flow theory and musical performance	1
Perception of the usability of music-genre labels for the assessment of musical tastes	1
Predicting academic achievement in music in secondary schools: The role of personality and self-theories of musicality	1
Perception and identification of tones in different timbres: Using pupil diameter to investigate absolute pitch ability	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
Does classical versus pop music influence coffee purchase likelihood?	1
Just noticeable differences in sound intensity of piano tones in non-musicians and experienced pianists	1
COVID-19 pandemic: Does musicianship matter?	1
Alpha oscillations related to self-other integration and distinction during live orchestral performance: A naturalistic case study	1
Strategic approaches to learning sight-singing at college level: An investigation using Q Methodology	1
Temperament systems influence emotion induction but not makam recognition performance in Turkish makam music	1
Role of expectancy in physiological responses to sound recognition of musical dissonance and timbral change	1
Musical DIAMONDS: The influence of situational classes and characteristics on music listening behavior	1
Musical interaction in music therapy for depression treatment	1
Detection of pitch errors in well-known songs	1
Fantastic four! Problem-solving processes of a professional string quartet	1
Effects of emotionally incongruent musical excerpts on memory retrieval	1
A stressful task is when to turn off the music: Effect of music on task performance mediated by cognitive effort	1
The influence of socioeconomic status, parents, peers, psychological needs, and task values on middle school student motivation for school music ensemble participation	1
Effect of Internet-mediated music therapy intervention on reduction in generalized anxiety disorder symptoms among displaced Nigerians of the Russia–Ukraine war	1
Defining “happy” in happy birthday: Singing accuracy a construct based on range and intervals	1
A quantitative analysis of two improvisation assessment instruments	1