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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

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
Making sense of background music listening habits: An arousal and task-complexity account	14
Higher music education students’ experiences and management of performance anxiety: A qualitative study	14
Characteristics of music performance anxiety among undergraduate music students: A systematic review	13
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
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
Flow and music performance: Professional musicians and music students’ views	9
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
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
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 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
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
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
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
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
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
The Pythagorean comma and preference for a stretched octave	4

Feedback in the instrumental music lesson: A qualitative study	4
Common neural bases for processing speech prosody and music: An integrated model	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 sound of social class: Do music preferences signal status?	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 mediating role of music preference in the relationship between personality and pro-sociability	4
Alpha oscillations related to self-other integration and distinction during live orchestral performance: A naturalistic case study	4
Positive mood induction through music: The significance of listener age and musical timbre	4
The emotion trajectory of self-selected jazz music with lyrics: A psychophysiological perspective	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
The effect of music in anxiety reduction: A psychological and physiological assessment	4
The phantoms of the opera—Stress offstage and stress onstage	4
The mechanism and neural substrate of musical emotions in the audio-visual modality	4
Validation of the Music Empathizing inventory in China	4
Toward a triangular theory of love for one’s musical instrument	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
Environmental factors affecting classical music concert experience	4
“The most relaxing song in the world”? A comparative study	4
Linking musical metaphors and emotions evoked by the sound of classical music	4
Perception of the usability of music-genre labels for the assessment of musical tastes	4
Independent music-making during Covid-19 and mental health	4
Is gender role self-concept a predictor for music class attendance? Findings from secondary schools in Lower Saxony (Germany)	4
Investigating the impact of age on auditory short-term, long-term, and working memory	4