Music & Consumer Behaviour

  • Conference reviews,  Music & Consumer Behaviour,  Music Psychology,  SMPC13

    SMPC Day 1: Session 3 (Culture and Trends)

    For lunch on my first day in Canada I was treated to a trip to a food court. For those of you who may not be aware, we really don’t have anything comparable in the UK. We have the odd ‘mall’ here and there but even their eating facilities do not come close to what you find in a US or Canadian facility. So…much…choice! On return to the conference, quite full to the brim with noodles, I attended a talk by Matthew Woolhouse (McMaster, Canada) who I first met when he worked at Cambridge in the UK. Matthew is a lovely chap and it is really nice to see that…

  • Earworms,  Music & Consumer Behaviour

    Sticky jingles: Top 10 and thoughts on learning

    Hello All. In between my normal academic life this week I have been having some fun engaging with a survey of the stickiest jingles ever made in the UK. By this stage my brain is truly ringing with these little tunes, but to be honest I am quite enjoying some of them. They bring back a lot of childhood memories and most of them make me smile 🙂 Lucky for you, I have exclusive access to the stats from this survey The public survey of 2000 men and women was carried out by Chicken Tonight UK in June of 2012. You may not know about Chicken Tonight if you are…