Also, glad to announce that I presented a poster of my project at #musiconnex.

I was so happy to share some insights from my recent research on music and fear at #MUSICONNEX !

Organizing, presenting and chairing a was a lot of work over these 3 days but it was all great!

Thank you everyone involved. 🥰 #musicscience #musicpsychology

I wasn't able to go to every talk, and honestly everyone's work is so cool and interesting and inspiring, I will direct you to the book of abstracts to see for yourself (and thanks to @studylistening.bsky.social for life posting so many sessions!!)

www.jyu.fi/en/events/mu... #musiconnex

And from today, talks I enjoyed included:
Today's keynote by Elizabeth Margulis on musical imagination and shared experiences;
Heini Siitainsuu on aging musical identity;
and Elizabeth Fair on the role of music after bereavement #musiconnex

Post-conference celebratory beer - so sad that it's over!! #musiconnect #musiconnex #phdlife

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

Lotta Kourilehto, on everyday music listening fostering connectedness in youth

-inter-connected themes of self-connectedness, social connectedness, + situational connectedness
-are the social aspects of listening more than what's been identified as the 'social functions' of music?

#MUSICONNEX

Anastasios Mavrolampados, Predicting emotional outcomes in everyday music listening

-evoked emotions not a stable outcome of the audio signal. there's an interaction of listener, mood, situation, and self-assessment of music.
-implications for models/designs/applications

#MUSICONNEX #MusicScience

Will Randall presents where #MUSICONNEX is going in the new project, HARMONICS.
in which @mupsych.bsky.social data and digital ethnography data will be considered together to produce a validated taxonomy of regulation strategies + conditions under which each is adaptive/successful

#MusicScience

@h-r-peltola.bsky.social suggests that online music platforms allow rich ways for self-construction. Through digital ethnography data on young Finns, she summarised the insights of the thematic analysis into three: 1. discovery, 2. engagement, and 3. social interaction. #MUSICONNEX #musicscience

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

Elizabeth Fair on the role of music after a bereavement:

-key themes of regulation, connection to the person who has died, connection to the music, and taking next steps

-music in reorientating --> remembering the past, anchoring the present, and moving forward

#MUSICONNEX #MusicScience

@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

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

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

@margulisa.bsky.social runs through a stack of research on musical imagination and shared experience in a #MUSICONNEX keynote.

-fictional imagining is common
-imaginings unfold dynamically
-shared content emerges early in development but doesnt extend cross-culturally

#MusicScience

@studylistening.bsky.social explores the topic of social deep listening, a practice organised by Sonaur in Australia, through interviews. Fascinating setup for a study that reveals notions about focus, well-being & motivation to listen to music in a particular frame of mind #MusicScience #MUSICONNEX

@studylistening.bsky.social showcasing how music programming and environment relate to the improvement of mood and well being; focused listening outcomes are driven not only by the music, but also the context, and listener interactions #musiconnex

@margulisa.bsky.social delivers Day 3 Keynote at #MUSICONNEX about imagination, shared experience, and connection: what we know about people imagining while listening to music: very concrete, often similar imagery across people, similar narratives, as measured by semantic similarity.

Nicole Koefler, Live music fosters collective effervescence and leads to lasting positive outcomes:

collective effervescence is intertwined experience of connection and sacredness felt in crowds (eg., sporting events, concerts, religious gatherings)

#MusicScience #MUSICONNEX