Music Psychology
-
Universal and cultural emotion communication in music
Hello dear reader. It is a beautiful sunny Sunday morning here in London. One could be forgiven for assuming that spring is on the way after a long chilly winter, but I have a rule to not get excited until I see my first snowdrop flowers. I have seen shoots so far but no flowers so my spring excitement (it is my favourite season you see) will have to wait but hopefully for just a few more days…. I have been enjoying some time in the Twitter-scape recently, which is one way to hear about new, hot-off-the-press papers in music psychology. One fellow music psychologist on Twitter is Professor Tuomas Eerola (@tuomas_ee)…
-
Survey of teaching in music psychology
“”Love the little trade which thou hast learned, and be content therewith.” Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Hello All – I hope this last week of June finds you well. They say you never stop learning and at the moment I am completing my final qualification in teaching within Higher Education. As part of my course I need to complete a thesis and I have decided to investigate the demographics, motivations and experiences of people who chose to take a course in music psychology/cognition/neuroscience. Music psychology is a relatively young interdisciplinary subject and it is only really in the last 10 years that the subject has been taught at Masters level across the…
