#MusicPsychSky
Jovana Blagojević on well-being of youth choir singers:
perceived optimism in choir buffers against anxiety, independent of age.
#MUSICONNEX #MusicScience #MusicPsychSky
September 23, 2026 at 7:58 AM
@anthonymoles.bsky.social shares our research applying the social identity approach to music identity at #MUSICONNEX.

-there are multiple identities
- and a mixture of self/other + in/out-group comparisons
-w. some really strong gender stereotypes are at play

#MusicScience #MusicPsychSky
September 24, 2026 at 9:33 AM
Julia Vigl on music preference similarity in couples:

-couples are more similar in preferences than pseudo-couples
-fave. artist similiarity shows a small association with relationship quality

sooo interesting. #MUSICONNEX #MusicScience #MusicPsychSky
September 24, 2026 at 9:30 AM
Loved presenting our research on music and social identities, co-authored with @studylistening.bsky.social, at #MUSICCONNEX.

We explored how people position themselves within or outside of the “wider music community”

And my red bow tie received positive peer review 🎀

#MusicScience #MusicPsychSky
@anthonymoles.bsky.social shares our research applying the social identity approach to music identity at #MUSICONNEX.

-there are multiple identities
- and a mixture of self/other + in/out-group comparisons
-w. some really strong gender stereotypes are at play

#MusicScience #MusicPsychSky
September 25, 2026 at 4:07 AM
Natalie Miller, on a study of live video game music concerts

-thought descriptions highlight thoughts about the concert but also social relationships and memories.
- absorption sig. predicts social connection to audience + performers + fan community

#MUSICONNEX #MusicScience #MusicPsychSky
September 23, 2026 at 10:46 AM
Alessandro Ansani, Solitropic and sociotropic tendencies as predictors for individual and social music listening:
- healthy listeners are "connected yet comfortable alone" (high sociotropism, high solitude, low isolation)

#MUSICONNEX #MusicScience #MusicPsychSky
September 23, 2026 at 12:46 PM
i got to talk about our work on communal, focused music listening experiences at #MUSICONNEX today.
- super interesting to think about the other sensory elements of a listening event. music is both multi-sensory and trans-temporal so there's still much to learn!

#MusicScience #MusicPsychSky
September 24, 2026 at 9:28 AM
Naomi Ziv, looking at interactions of military uniform and guitar playing on women's attraction to men:

playing classical guitar in uniform leading to highest attractiveness ratings in her sample

#MUSICONNEX #MusicScience #MusicPsychSky
September 24, 2026 at 9:37 AM
Jan Stupacher, talking on the pleasurable urge to move to music in people with Parkinson’s disease:
data from an experiment showing that movement synchrony adds more than a timing cue. it adds motivation and social connection as well.
#MUSICONNEX #MusicScience #MusicPsychSky
September 23, 2026 at 7:44 AM
Adelaide Beckwith, asking how people with hearing loss engage with everyday music listening + how is this related to well-being:
- average daily listening: 2hr, 17min
- increased use of music for mood regulation assoc. w. higher WB scores

#MUSICONNEX #MusicScience #MusicPsychSky
September 23, 2026 at 8:47 AM
Agnieszka Siry, How daily musical experiences shape mood, emotion, and social feeling

-music buffers the emotional consequences of negative social experiences, primarily by enhancing pos emotions rather than reducing neg ones
-quality of experience matters!

#MUSICONNEX #MusicScience #MusicPsychSky
September 24, 2026 at 11:12 AM
Hauke Egermann runs through a solid set of live concert studies to discus how social bonding in the audience can create social connection. Amazing body of work that shows the importance/interaction of spatial co-presence and temporal simultaneously
#MUSICONNEX #MusicScience #MusicPsychSky
September 23, 2026 at 6:57 AM
Gunter Kreutz, sharing on a secondary analysis of german household data re: Leisure activities and adolescents’ wellbeing:
findings support the HYP that lack of leisure opportunities might increase mental health risks in young adolescents.

#MUSICONNEX #MusicScience #MusicPsychSky
September 23, 2026 at 8:29 AM
great to see our listening and self-compassion study led by @whenmusicbreaks.bsky.social now issued in Psychology of Music #MusicScience #MusicPsychSky

open-access article --> journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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September 15, 2026 at 9:07 PM