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 🎀

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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!

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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

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@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

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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!

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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)

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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

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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

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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.

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Jovana Blagojević on well-being of youth choir singers:
perceived optimism in choir buffers against anxiety, independent of age.
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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.
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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
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great to see our listening and self-compassion study led by @whenmusicbreaks.bsky.social now issued in Psychology of Music #MusicScience #MusicPsychSky

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