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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
A moderated mediation study of music engagement, adaptive music listening, and dreaming	23
Concurrent musical pitch height biases judgment of visual brightness	23
Functions of produced and observed gesture in choral singing	22
Gaze behavior, attention allocation, and automaticity in expert chamber music coaches	20
Effects of amateur choir experience on forced-attention dichotic listening in older adults	20
Long-term impacts of health education on university music students: A retrospective qualitative case study	18
Syncopation levels, but not movement, are associated with pleasantness while listening to rhythmic music	16
Calling the tune in maladaptive daydreaming: The impact of music on the experience of compulsive fantasizing	16
The Connection Between Flow and Music Performance Anxiety Among Adolescents	14
Self-efficacy and music performance: A meta-analysis	13
Psychometric validation and factorial structure of the Chinese version of the Kenny Music Performance Anxiety Inventory (K-MPAI)	13
The effect of chord duration on the relative salience of chord-type and voicing changes	12
Identity formation and possible selves of early career instrumental music teachers: A qualitative study	12
Paracusis musicalis: Insights on age-related absolute pitch decline	12
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	11
Please don’t stop the music! A new look at the performance anxiety of musicians with the model of excellencism and perfectionism	11
Music engagement for stress and anxiety in adults during the COVID-19 pandemic: A systematic review	10
Exploring intra-contextual influences in music emotion perception	9
Sequential consonance/dissonance: Effects of chord directionality, cadences, and voice leading	9
Exploring relations between Big Five personality traits and musical emotions embodied in spontaneous dance	9
Inside the piano studio: What teachers say about performance training, perfectionism, and performance anxiety	9
Musical mood induction: The relative influences of music type and the importance of music preference	8
Impacts of emotional self-awareness, emotional regulation, and performance anxiety on stage confidence in Chinese music students	8
Cultivating meaning and self-transcendence to increase positive emotions and decrease anxiety in music performance	8

Effects of two modalities of practice on the learning of piano pieces under the deprivation of auditory feedback	8
Hearing loss and mental health issues in amateur and professional musicians	8
Moving together, feeling together: Body coordination, pupil size, and musical togetherness in classical duo performance	8
Burning out, fading away, and the sophomore slump: Critics’ versus fans’ ratings of music artists’ album quality over time	7
Beat perception in polyrhythms is influenced by spontaneous motor tempo, musicianship, and played musical style	7
Are we all anxious about the same thing? A comparison of lay definitions of music making and performance in the context of music participation	7
Perfectionism and impostor phenomenon among undergraduate music education majors	7
Harmonic expectancy violations: Testing the effects of familiarity, lead-in time, and ecological validity	7
The important role of self in cross-cultural investigations of affective experiences with music	7
Situational belonging in high school band ensembles and high schools	7
Environmental factors affecting classical music concert experience	6
Just noticeable differences in sound intensity of piano tones in non-musicians and experienced pianists	6
Development and validation of the Singing Voice Function Self-Efficacy Scale (Singing-VoSES)	6
How does music contribute to well-being? Perspectives from homeless young adults with problematic psychoactive substance use	6
The role of social media feedback in performance preparation, self-esteem, and anxiety	6
Music preference, social identity, and collective self-esteem	5
Personal strength and coping during the COVID-19 pandemic: A study of cultural workers in the music sector	5
Comparing the emotional effects of semantic content and vocal expression of lyrics	5
Meter without rhythmic pattern repetitions increases pre-attentive processing	5
Meditation as a tool to counteract music performance anxiety from the experts’ perspective	5
The influence of consonance–dissonance contrasts on perceived pleasantness of concluding tonic chords in short chord sequences	5
Understanding the lived music listening experiences of adults on the autism spectrum	5
How Australian singers experienced disruption to choir participation caused by pandemic lockdowns: A thematic analysis	5
Embodiment of emotions in adolescents’ musical expression	5
Exploring five professional violinists’ flow experiences during solo and chamber music performances: An interpretative phenomenological analysis	5
The MISE method: A new communicative approach for evaluating and training singing through mental imagery—Executive implications	5
Reminiscence bump invariance with respect to genre, age, and country	5
Song popularity and processing fluency of lyrics	5
“Love lies”: A content analysis of romantic attachment style in popular music	5
Spiralling Engagement Experiences of Creativity (SEEC): A process of research-led arts creation for facilitating experiences of flourishing in participants’ lives	5
A cross-cultural study in Chinese and Western music: Cultural advantages in recognition of emotions	5
Very low association between multidimensional musical environment exposure and musical perception skills among children: Evidence from a large multilevel cross-sectional study	5
Immediacy, ensemble setup, and classroom space: A quasi-experimental study among secondary instrumental teachers and students	5
Predicting singing ability from parents’ parental support and openness in high school students: Using a self-adjusted Goldsmiths Musical Sophistication Index Inventory	5
Experience and performance type modify anticipatory stress in musicians	4
The cognitive and emotional content of music-evoked autobiographical memories in older adults	4
Music listening according to the iso principle in patients with mood disorders	4
Treatments for performance anxiety in musicians across the lifespan: A systematic review and meta-analysis	4
Character judgements of rap music fans	4
Music consumption and uses in Japan	4
Seeing sound, shaping stories: The role of ideasthesia and event segmentation in musically evoked narratives	4
Putting practice under the microscope: The perceived uses and limitations of slow instrumental music practice	4
Do emotions evoked by music modulate visuospatial working memory capacity? A physiological study	4
Student-perceived social interactions in university musical ensembles predicted group identification	4
The mental health of musicians: A scoping review	4
Distinguishing between musical excerpts learned by novices individually or in pairs	4
The effect of visual information on subliminal music-induced emotion	4
Music teachers’ stance in action to develop student autonomy	4
An investigation of earworms and obsessive–compulsive traits using experience sampling and retrospective methods	4
Musical consonance in simple, static auditory stimuli and perceived pleasantness: The role of musical interval, harmonicity, and stimulus duration	4

Musical interpretative practices as a way to improve the relationship between the flow theory and musical performance	4
“A space to be myself ”: Music and self-determination in the lives of autistic adults	4
Social identity, collective self-esteem, and musical preferences in electronic dance music culture: The role of emotions	4
Comparing effects of sad melody versus sad lyrics on mood	4
Positive musical performance feedback facilitates general self-efficacy and choice of solo performance	4
The first cut is the deepest: Exploring the importance of early musical experiences in the development of musical identities	4
Determinants of motivation in world-class musicians and Olympic athletes: Exploring the front and the back side of the medallion	4
Meta-analysis on the effects of music participation on social and emotional measures across the lifespan	4
Breaking with common practice: Exploring modernist musical emotion	4