Music is a crucial element of everyday life. People spend hours listening to it and billions of
dollars buying it. Yet despite the pervasiveness of music, mainstream social‐personality …

Are there developmental trends in how individuals experience and engage with music?
Data from 2 large cross-sectional studies involving more than a quarter of a million …

Music is a cross-cultural universal, a ubiquitous activity found in every known human culture.
Individuals demonstrate manifestly different preferences in music, and yet relatively little is …

Research on the mechanisms that reproduce social class advantages in the United States
focuses primarily on formal schooling and pays less attention to social class discrimination …

This chapter gives an introduction to music recommender systems, considering the unique
characteristics of the music domain. We take a user-centric perspective, by organizing our …

Music in the Human Experience: An Introduction to Music Psychology, Second Edition, is
geared toward music students yet incorporates other disciplines to provide an explanation …

The present study examines the role of similarity in music preferences in the formation and
discontinuation of friendships over a 1-year period. Questionnaire data were gathered from …

The Psychology of Musical Development provides an up-to-date and comprehensive
account of the latest theory, empirical research and applications in the study of musical …

The present study is the first to examine the relationship between music preferences and
personality among a sample of young Germans (N= 422, age range 21–26 years). We …

Research suggests that young people use music to express themselves and to make claims
about their identities. The current work considered the possible consequences of using …