Communal music as a tool to improve positive affect after social ostracism or negative autobiographical memory recollection.

Mayron Piccolo, Deborah Wanderley Dos Santos, Shaun Herold, Jill M Hooley

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Article in Scientific reports, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT07394465 (First Tones), which is not on this map. Cited by 1 paper.

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NCT07394465 nacompletednot on this map

First Tones: Artistic Communal Practices for 4 and 5 Year Old Children

TypeinterventionalSponsorHarvard UniversityRan2024 to 2024Enrolled46ConditionsMental HealthArmsCommunal singing, Drawing

3 · Its place in the literature

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1 citing paper in PubMed.

Music reward sensitivity and subjective well-being in college students: the indirect pathways of resilience and perceived social support.Frontiers in psychology · 2026
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4 authors.

Mayron PiccoloDepartment of Psychology, Harvard University, Cambridge, USA. mpiccolo@fas.harvard.edu.

Deborah Wanderley Dos SantosHarvard Graduate School of Education, Cambridge, USA.

Shaun HeroldDepartment of Psychology, Harvard University, Cambridge, USA.

Jill M HooleyDepartment of Psychology, Harvard University, Cambridge, USA.

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Exposure to communal music may help regulate mood and cultivate feelings of belonging. Across two studies, we tested whether exposure to communally experienced (communal) music could impact participants' affect following social ostracism and negative mood induction. Participants were exposed to a social media ostracism paradigm (SMOP; n = 106) or an autobiographical negative memory recollection task (ANMIT; n = 116), followed by a communal or a control song. Participants exposed to the communal song showed improved positive affect in both studies (p

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AffectMemory, EpisodicMental RecallMusicSocial IsolationAdolescentAdultFemaleHumansMaleYoung AdultAffectCommunal musicMental wellbeingNegative autobiographical memory recollectionSocial media ostracism

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PMID41028871

DOI10.1038/s41598-025-05119-5

PMCPMC12484554

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