ArticleBehavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland)2022
Musical Enjoyment and Reward: From Hedonic Pleasure to Eudaimonic Listening.
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- "I feel good… I knew that I would…": The role of self in musical reward across cultures.PloS one · 2026Article
- Exploring pleasure as a mediator of outcomes in music therapy.BMC complementary medicine and therapies · 2025Article
- Acoustic features of instrumental movie soundtracks elicit distinct and mostly non-overlapping extra-musical meanings in the mind of the listener.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Evidence for music therapy and music medicine in psychiatry: transdiagnostic meta-review of meta-analyses.BJPsych open · 2024Review
- Do K-Pop Consumers' Fandom Activities Affect Their Happiness, Listening Intention, and Loyalty?Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Music Listening as Exploratory Behavior: From Dispositional Reactions to Epistemic Interactions with the Sonic World.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Review
- Hardiness and Expectations for Future Life: The Roles of Perceived Stress, Music Listening for Negative Emotion Regulation, and Life Satisfaction.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- Music, Pleasure, and Meaning: The Hedonic and Eudaimonic Motivations for Music (HEMM) Scale.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2023Article
- Meaning in Music Is Intentional, but in Soundscape It Is Not-A Naturalistic Approach to the Qualia of Sounds.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Review
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Abstract
This article is a hypothesis and theory paper. It elaborates on the possible relation between music as a stimulus and its possible effects, with a focus on the question of why listeners are experiencing pleasure and reward. Though it is tempting to seek for a causal relationship, this has proven to be elusive given the many intermediary variables that intervene between the actual impingement on the senses and the reactions/responses by the listener. A distinction can be made, however, between three elements: (i) an objective description of the acoustic features of the music and their possible role as elicitors; (ii) a description of the possible modulating factors-both external/exogenous and internal/endogenous ones; and (iii) a continuous and real-time description of the responses by the listener, both in terms of their psychological reactions and their physiological correlates. Music listening, in this broadened view, can be considered as a multivariate phenomenon of biological, psychological, and cultural factors that, together, shape the overall, full-fledged experience. In addition to an overview of the current and extant research on musical enjoyment and reward, we draw attention to some key methodological problems that still complicate a full description of the musical experience. We further elaborate on how listening may entail both adaptive and maladaptive ways of coping with the sounds, with the former allowing a gentle transition from mere hedonic pleasure to eudaimonic enjoyment.
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