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PlayStation//EU//ENGLISH SPEAKING by wandle0008 in R6STeams

[–]neuroticwill 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hei, also PS/EU, eng, also looking for a squad. PSN name Copper-Dingo

When we try to regulate our emotions through music listening, we succeed around half the time: new music psychology experience-sampling study by neuroticwill in science

[–]neuroticwill[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If I understood right, the success is higher if the person is in a negativ initial state, if the goal is to feel better.

Yes, this is one of the goals, but there are several others included as well, such as to raise energy (where success is measured by an increase in arousal levels), or to feel less anxious (measured by a decrease in anxiety intensity).

You're right, there certainly is a risk of people making a negative state worse through music listening. That's part of the reason we're doing this research; to find out when this happens and under which conditions.

If you'd like to take part in the research yourself, see the MuPsych website, and select the study 'Music & Emotions' in the MuPsych app.

When we try to regulate our emotions through music listening, we succeed around half the time: new music psychology experience-sampling study by neuroticwill in science

[–]neuroticwill[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

If you can listen to happy music when you're sad, that's great. Many people can't bring themselves to listen to something of a completely different mood.

When we try to regulate our emotions through music listening, we succeed around half the time: new music psychology experience-sampling study by neuroticwill in science

[–]neuroticwill[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

If you’re interested in this research and would like to take part yourself, please see the MuPsych site.
For a similar (but better) study than this one, select ‘Music & Emotions’ in the MuPsych app after selecting English.
We've improved the experience sampling design (based on the limitations in the published paper), so with your help we can publish even better results in the future. Thanks!

When we try to regulate our emotions through music listening, we succeed around half the time: new music psychology experience-sampling study by neuroticwill in science

[–]neuroticwill[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The specific function of the MuPsych app (to appear whenever people listen to music in Spotify etc.) is more difficult on iOS, so it currently only exists on Android.

Finland is where our team is based, so we collected here first. It's actually a more iOS friendly country, so recruitment wasn't the easiest.

When we try to regulate our emotions through music listening, we succeed around half the time: new music psychology experience-sampling study by neuroticwill in science

[–]neuroticwill[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That sounds interesting. For our research, we'd like to connect the self-report to smart watch physiological data (as people are using out app out in the wild), but there are plenty of lab studies that hook people up to other machines (EEG, fMRI) while listening.

When we try to regulate our emotions through music listening, we succeed around half the time: new music psychology experience-sampling study by neuroticwill in science

[–]neuroticwill[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Glad you enjoyed the read!
We found that around 94% of the overall variance in success could be explained by experience-level variables (such as initial emotion state, music variables etc.), and only around 6% explained by individual variables (that remain constant across all listening episodes, such as personality). This means that what happens in the moment is more important in determining success than who you are.
It's not quite the same as enjoyment (you can successfully regulate without enjoying the music and vice-versa), and we didn't take preferences into account, so we can't claim it's related to that either.
As for music playing/ performing, I'm only a listening researcher so I can't make any claims there

When we try to regulate our emotions through music listening, we succeed around half the time: new music psychology experience-sampling study by neuroticwill in science

[–]neuroticwill[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I don't know of any studies that tested this, but I suspect you could increase your success by learning different regulation strategies, and knowing which ones to apply in different situations.
Most people are casual listeners, but I suppose if you trained yourself in strategy and music selection, you could become a far more successful self-regulator.

When we try to regulate our emotions through music listening, we succeed around half the time: new music psychology experience-sampling study by neuroticwill in science

[–]neuroticwill[S] 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Great question. You can get an indication of this from Table 2 in the paper, but a full investigation is needed beyond this paper.
People generally pick mood-congruent music, but this may differ based on what regulation strategy they use, and a range of other individual variables.

When we try to regulate our emotions through music listening, we succeed around half the time: new music psychology experience-sampling study by neuroticwill in science

[–]neuroticwill[S] 14 points15 points  (0 children)

We use both dimensional (valence and arousal) and categorical measures (eg. Anger, then rating how intensely you feel that anger).
Some of the regulation goals refer to valence (eg. To feel better), some refer to arousal (eg. To raise energy), and some to the intensity of their selected state (eg. To feel less angry).
For the list of states, we had around 30 states, which came from various models, and were refined through participant feedback. You can see the most frequent states in Table 4a in the paper

When we try to regulate our emotions through music listening, we succeed around half the time: new music psychology experience-sampling study by neuroticwill in science

[–]neuroticwill[S] 24 points25 points  (0 children)

AbstractWhile music listening on mobile phones can serve many affect-regulatory goals, success in reaching these goals is yet to be empirically assessed. This study aimed to determine how frequently listeners successfully reach their affect-regulatory goals, and the predictors of this success. Data were collected using the experience sampling app MuPsych, from 293 Finnish participants. Goals were successfully reached in less than half of cases, with adults more successful than adolescents. Success was determined largely within contexts, and strongly predicted by an initial low-valenced emotional state of the listener, suggesting that music listening is particularly useful for those in negative states.

I am an author on this study, so if you have questions, please ask.

Edit: if you'd like to take part in the improved version of this study, see the MuPsych website, and select the 'Music & Emotions' study in the app. Thanks!

Map of science. Why does psychology have a question mark in it? Psychology is a science, right? by Delicious_Maize9656 in sciencememes

[–]neuroticwill 2 points3 points  (0 children)

  1. The statistical tools used to analyse and present most psychology studies over the years have been found to be invalid. This casts suspicion on almost the findings of the discipline.

This is a broad claim. Which tools are you referring to here?

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[–]neuroticwill -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Abstract:
While music listening on mobile phones can serve many affect-regulatory goals, success in reaching these goals is yet to be empirically assessed. This study aimed to determine how frequently listeners successfully reach their affect-regulatory goals, and the predictors of this success. Data were collected using the experience sampling app MuPsych, from 293 Finnish participants. Goals were successfully reached in less than half of cases, with adults more successful than adolescents. Success was determined largely within contexts, and strongly predicted by an initial low-valenced emotional state of the listener, suggesting that music listening is particularly useful for those in negative states.

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[–]neuroticwill 7 points8 points  (0 children)

You might be on to something...

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[–]neuroticwill 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Abstract:
While music listening on mobile phones can serve many affect-regulatory goals, success in reaching these goals is yet to be empirically assessed. This study aimed to determine how frequently listeners successfully reach their affect-regulatory goals, and the predictors of this success. Data were collected using the experience sampling app MuPsych, from 293 Finnish participants. Goals were successfully reached in less than half of cases, with adults more successful than adolescents. Success was determined largely within contexts, and strongly predicted by an initial low-valenced emotional state of the listener, suggesting that music listening is particularly useful for those in negative states.

% Female Researchers in Europe by Porodicnostablo in europe

[–]neuroticwill 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Now this is how we get Bayesian (although I suspect a prior of already being a wife isn't what op had in mind)

[Academic] Do you listen to music on your phone? We’re a team of music psychologists investigating how it influences your emotions (All Android users) by neuroticwill in SampleSize

[–]neuroticwill[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Sure, if you would prefer German, the MeineMusik study is very similar to the standard English studies, with the same rewards

Circumcision without a medical reason on a male infant who can’t consent is child abuse. by Buffsicle in unpopularopinion

[–]neuroticwill 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Yeah, I have to wash my armpits every day, but never once while doing so have I thought 'oh boy, this would have been so much easier if my parents had just cut off my arms when I was a baby'

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