ReviewSeminars in hearing2017
Understanding Why People Enjoy Loud Sound.
Review in Seminars in hearing, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 14 papers.
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14 citing papers in PubMed.
- Effect of Sound Preference on Loudness Tolerance and Preferred Listening Levels Using Personal Listening Devices.Audiology research · 2025Article
- Psychological correlates of hearing protective behaviors in adolescents and young adults: a systematic review.Health psychology and behavioral medicine · 2025Review
- Music Listening as Exploratory Behavior: From Dispositional Reactions to Epistemic Interactions with the Sonic World.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Review
- Perceptual (but not acoustic) features predict singing voice preferences.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- 'Cultural Insights into Adults' Hearing Awareness and Personal Listening Device Habits: A Survey Study.Journal of multidisciplinary healthcare · 2024Article
- A genome-wide association study of tinnitus reveals shared genetic links to neuropsychiatric disorders.Scientific reports · 2022Article
- Music Listening and Homeostatic Regulation: Surviving and Flourishing in a Sonic World.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021Article
- Neural Correlates of Music Listening: Does the Music Matter?Brain sciences · 2021Review
- Music Listening as Coping Behavior: From Reactive Response to Sense-Making.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2020Article
- Music and Noise: Same or Different? What Our Body Tells Us.Frontiers in psychology · 2019Review
- Musical Intensity Applied in the Sports and Exercise Domain: An Effective Strategy to Boost Performance?Frontiers in psychology · 2019Review
- Time to Listen: Most Regular Patrons of Music Venues Prefer Lower Volumes.Frontiers in psychology · 2019Article
- The Evolution of Soundscape Appraisal Through Enactive Cognition.Frontiers in psychology · 2018Article
- Why Do People Like Loud Sound? A Qualitative Study.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2017Article
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Abstract
Sounds at levels that can injure the ear are regarded as enjoyable by many people. In many societies, a common form of this behavior is listening to loud music, either via personal audio systems or at music venues. Drawing on theory from the literature around loud sound and emotional responses to music, and combining it with concepts of physiological sound adaptation and classical conditioning, we developed a model of the process that may underlie people's enjoyment of loud sound, particularly loud music in nightclubs. The Conditioning, Adaptation, and Acculturation to Loud Music (CAALM) model proposes that the benefits associated with loud sound, alongside other desirable aspects of nightclubs, provide the unconditioned stimuli. Over time regular clubbers become conditioned to enjoy loud sound in itself. Exposure to loud sound also causes adaptation within the auditory system, so there is both a desire for, and tolerance of, loud sound during leisure time. This sets up an expectation of loud music as a cultural norm, and staff of leisure venues, who are themselves part of that culture, set music levels to meet customer expectations; and a cycle is perpetuated. This theory may be a useful consideration for health promotion and hearing conservation interventions.
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