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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
A moderated mediation study of music engagement, adaptive music listening, and dreaming	45
Self-efficacy and music performance: A meta-analysis	27
Concurrent musical pitch height biases judgment of visual brightness	27
Predicting anxiety, depression, and wellbeing in professional and nonprofessional musicians	22
Syncopation levels, but not movement, are associated with pleasantness while listening to rhythmic music	19
Calling the tune in maladaptive daydreaming: The impact of music on the experience of compulsive fantasizing	18
Effects of attention focus instructions on amateur piano performance	18
Effects of amateur choir experience on forced-attention dichotic listening in older adults	18
Audiences’ emotional response to choir singing by people living with mental health conditions	18
Emotional and musical factors combined with song-specific age predict the subjective autobiographical saliency of music in older adults	16
Music engagement for stress and anxiety in adults during the COVID-19 pandemic: A systematic review	15
The effect of chord duration on the relative salience of chord-type and voicing changes	13
The effects of prosocial lyrics music on attentional bias	13
Hearing loss and mental health issues in amateur and professional musicians	12
Please don’t stop the music! A new look at the performance anxiety of musicians with the model of excellencism and perfectionism	12
Identity formation and possible selves of early career instrumental music teachers: A qualitative study	12
Exploring relations between Big Five personality traits and musical emotions embodied in spontaneous dance	12
Exploring intra-contextual influences in music emotion perception	11
Cultivating meaning and self-transcendence to increase positive emotions and decrease anxiety in music performance	11
Inside the piano studio: What teachers say about performance training, perfectionism, and performance anxiety	10
Effects of two modalities of practice on the learning of piano pieces under the deprivation of auditory feedback	10
Musical mood induction: The relative influences of music type and the importance of music preference	10
Environmental factors affecting classical music concert experience	9
Book Review: Honing, H, The evolving animal orchestra: In search of what makes us musical	9
Burning out, fading away, and the sophomore slump: Critics’ versus fans’ ratings of music artists’ album quality over time	8

The important role of self in cross-cultural investigations of affective experiences with music	8
Are we all anxious about the same thing? A comparison of lay definitions of music making and performance in the context of music participation	8
Situational belonging in high school band ensembles and high schools	8
Harmonic expectancy violations: Testing the effects of familiarity, lead-in time, and ecological validity	8
Beat perception in polyrhythms is influenced by spontaneous motor tempo, musicianship, and played musical style	8
Changes in mood, oxytocin, and cortisol following group and individual singing: A pilot study	8
Development and validation of the Singing Voice Function Self-Efficacy Scale (Singing-VoSES)	8
How does music contribute to well-being? Perspectives from homeless young adults with problematic psychoactive substance use	8
The effect of background music on the aesthetic experience of a visual artwork in a naturalistic environment	7
Psychometric properties of a scale of attitudes toward musical genres linked to social groups in Peru	7
Book Review: Oscar Odena Musical creativity revisited: Educational foundations, practices and research	7
Effect of specific melodic scales of Indian music in reducing state and trait anxiety: A randomized clinical trial	7
Higher empathy is associated with stronger social bonding when moving together with music	7
Alpha oscillations related to self-other integration and distinction during live orchestral performance: A naturalistic case study	7
Just noticeable differences in sound intensity of piano tones in non-musicians and experienced pianists	7
University musicians’ use of component cognitive skills in practice: A self-report study	7
Does genre make a difference? Classical orchestra/popular band musicians’ motivation, self-efficacy, and practice experiences’ effects on deliberate practice	7
Music preference, social identity, and collective self-esteem	6
Personal strength and coping during the COVID-19 pandemic: A study of cultural workers in the music sector	6
Meter without rhythmic pattern repetitions increases pre-attentive processing	6
The MISE method: A new communicative approach for evaluating and training singing through mental imagery—Executive implications	6
How Australian singers experienced disruption to choir participation caused by pandemic lockdowns: A thematic analysis	6
Spiralling Engagement Experiences of Creativity (SEEC): A process of research-led arts creation for facilitating experiences of flourishing in participants’ lives	6
A cross-cultural study in Chinese and Western music: Cultural advantages in recognition of emotions	6
Immediacy, ensemble setup, and classroom space: A quasi-experimental study among secondary instrumental teachers and students	6
Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and musical behaviour: The significance of context	6
Predicting academic achievement in music in secondary schools: The role of personality and self-theories of musicality	6
“Love lies”: A content analysis of romantic attachment style in popular music	6
Embodiment of emotions in adolescents’ musical expression	6
Very low association between multidimensional musical environment exposure and musical perception skills among children: Evidence from a large multilevel cross-sectional study	6
Comparing the emotional effects of semantic content and vocal expression of lyrics	6
French adaptation of a film music stimulus set: Normative emotional ratings of valence and arousal prompted by music excerpts	5
Experience and performance type modify anticipatory stress in musicians	5
Validation of the Music Empathizing inventory in China	5
Comparing effects of sad melody versus sad lyrics on mood	5
Popular music lyrics and the COVID-19 pandemic	5
Understanding the lived music listening experiences of adults on the autism spectrum	5
Predicting singing ability from parents’ parental support and openness in high school students: Using a self-adjusted Goldsmiths Musical Sophistication Index Inventory	5
Making sense of background music listening habits: An arousal and task-complexity account	5
“The music gets through”: Experiences of classical composers and observations of hospitalized adolescents in a music-based intervention	5
Meditation as a tool to counteract music performance anxiety from the experts’ perspective	5
Song popularity and processing fluency of lyrics	5
Perception and identification of tones in different timbres: Using pupil diameter to investigate absolute pitch ability	5
Reminiscence bump invariance with respect to genre, age, and country	5
Shared musical activity and perceptions of relationship commitment	5
Positive musical performance feedback facilitates general self-efficacy and choice of solo performance	4
Distinguishing between musical excerpts learned by novices individually or in pairs	4
Mind wandering and musical creativity in jazz improvisation	4
“A space to be myself ”: Music and self-determination in the lives of autistic adults	4
Breaking with common practice: Exploring modernist musical emotion	4

Treatments for performance anxiety in musicians across the lifespan: A systematic review and meta-analysis	4
Do emotions evoked by music modulate visuospatial working memory capacity? A physiological study	4
Musical interpretative practices as a way to improve the relationship between the flow theory and musical performance	4
The cognitive and emotional content of music-evoked autobiographical memories in older adults	4
Putting practice under the microscope: The perceived uses and limitations of slow instrumental music practice	4
An investigation of earworms and obsessive–compulsive traits using experience sampling and retrospective methods	4
Student-perceived social interactions in university musical ensembles predicted group identification	4
The sound of social class: Do music preferences signal status?	4
What elicits music-evoked nostalgia? An exploratory study among college students	4
Small music ensemble and empathy: A replication study in a South Korean music student sample	4
Meta-analysis on the effects of music participation on social and emotional measures across the lifespan	4