Momentum in music: Musical succession as physical motion.

Hubbard, Timothy L.

doi:10.1037/pmu0000171

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“…Belief in PM-and in its ability to elevate performance-cuts across numerous domains including politics (Kenney & Rice, 1994), athletics (e.g., Gernigon et al, 2010;Taylor & Demick, 1994), finance (e.g., Arkes, 2011;Hendricks, Patel, & Zeckhauser, 1993), shopping (Dhar, Huber, & Khan, 2007), academic writing, and even house cleaning (Markman & Guenther, 2007) and musical experience (Hubbard, 2017). Belief in the effect is so powerful that it has been found to influence decisions as meaningful as where one invests their retirement funds (e.g., Hendricks et al, 1993), and for whom one casts their presidential vote (Kenney & Rice, 1994).…”

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Psychological momentum and risky decision-making

Guenther

Kokotajlo

2017

J Theo Soc Psychol

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Psychological momentum (PM) is construed as an extra‐individual phenomenon capable of elevating performance in a variety of achievement contexts including athletics, politics, and investing. Although generally perceived as a performance‐enhancing phenomenon, the present study tested whether one counterintuitive downside to developing PM is that it enhances risky decision‐making—by way of eliciting heightened confidence—within these contexts. Findings from one study support this prediction. Participants induced to experience PM prior to a card‐matching task with financial implications (chances to win $100 gift cards) made riskier gameplay decisions than those experiencing less PM. Critically, PM ratings were positively associated with task confidence, which in turn, mediated the relationship between PM and risk‐taking. Directions for future research and implications for decision‐making in sport, political, clinical, and investment domains are discussed.

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Psychological momentum and risky decision-making

Guenther

Kokotajlo

2017

J Theo Soc Psychol

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“…PM models posit that events follow trajectories toward some (desired or undesired) end‐state and that the perceived speed of movement toward reaching those end‐states is experienced as perceptual velocity (e.g., Adler, ; Gernigon et al, ; Hubbard, ; Markman & Guenther, ; Vallerand et al, ). Stated differently, perceptual velocity refers to a rate of change (or reinforcement), and it is assumed that “… a faster rate of change is associated with a larger momentum‐like effect” (Hubbard, , p. 57).…”

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“…In all, the literature suggests that the experience of PM emerges in response to perceived (psychological) changes taking place within salient temporal and contextual frameworks. PM is experienced as a trajectory bookended by a starting point and an ending point and is contextualized within a meaningful history of events (e.g., Adler, 1981;Adler & Adler, 1978;Gernigon et al, 2010;Hubbard, 2017a;Markman & Guenther, 2007). Moreover, the extant work emphasizes the view that experienced trajectories conveying temporal and dynamic information have the potential for eliciting the experiential state of PM (e.g., Briki, 2017;Hubbard, 2017b;Markman & Guenther, 2007).…”

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“…The input-centered approach refers to a set of theoretical models and empirical investigations that has attempted to examine PM-like stimuli as the object of study in an attempt to further our understanding of PM. As we describe in the next section, this approach has revealed how the experience of PM depends upon readily identifiable temporal and contextual stimuli (e.g., Gernigon et al, 2010;Hubbard, 2015Hubbard, , 2017aHubbard, , 2017bMarkman & Guenther, 2007;Pettit, Sivanathan, Gladstone, & Marr, 2013;Vallerand, Colavecchio, & Pelletier, 1988). The output-centered approach, on the other hand, refers to recent work that construes PM as part of a more global process of goal achievement (Briki, 2017;Iso-Ahola & Dotson, 2014, 2017.…”

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Psychological momentum: The phenomenology of goal pursuit

Briki

Markman

2018

Social & Personality Psych

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Psychological momentum (PM) is thought to be a force that influences judgment, emotion, and performance. Based on a review of the extant literature, we elucidate two distinct approaches that researchers have adopted in their study of PM: the input‐centered approach and the output‐centered approach. Consistent with the input‐centered approach, we conceptualize PM as a process whereby temporal and contextual PM‐like stimuli (i.e., perceptual velocity, perceptual mass, perceptual historicity, and perceptually interconnected timescales)—initially perceived as an impetus—are extrapolated to imagined future outcomes through mental simulation. In turn, and consistent with the output‐centered approach, we posit that mental simulation elicits experiential (e.g., perceptual, cognitive, emotional) and behavioral states that govern goal pursuit, and that the pursuit of goals further influences perceptions of self, environment, and action quality. In all, we suggest that PM is interdependently linked to perceptions and behaviors in the sense that PM both influences and is influenced by changes in self‐perceptions, environmental perceptions, and behavior, and we conclude by linking the PM construct to recent work on prospection.

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“…Theoretical analysis has even been extended to examination of musical inertia’s momentum-like effect as a general or unique mechanism of psychological and behavioral momentum (Hubbard, 2017a). Recent theory construction and model expansion (Iso-Ahola and Dotson, 2014, 2016, 2017) has also led to large-scale empirical investigations on elite performers.…”

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Reproducibility in Psychological Science: When Do Psychological Phenomena Exist?

Iso‐Ahola

2017

Front. Psychol.

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Scientific evidence has recently been used to assert that certain psychological phenomena do not exist. Such claims, however, cannot be made because (1) scientific method itself is seriously limited (i.e., it can never prove a negative); (2) non-existence of phenomena would require a complete absence of both logical (theoretical) and empirical support; even if empirical support is weak, logical and theoretical support can be strong; (3) statistical data are only one piece of evidence and cannot be used to reduce psychological phenomena to statistical phenomena; and (4) psychological phenomena vary across time, situations and persons. The human mind is unreproducible from one situation to another. Psychological phenomena are not particles that can decisively be tested and discovered. Therefore, a declaration that a phenomenon is not real is not only theoretically and empirically unjustified but runs counter to the propositional and provisional nature of scientific knowledge. There are only “temporary winners” and no “final truths” in scientific knowledge. Psychology is a science of subtleties in human affect, cognition and behavior. Its phenomena fluctuate with conditions and may sometimes be difficult to detect and reproduce empirically. When strictly applied, reproducibility is an overstated and even questionable concept in psychological science. Furthermore, statistical measures (e.g., effect size) are poor indicators of the theoretical importance and relevance of phenomena (cf. “deliberate practice” vs. “talent” in expert performance), not to mention whether phenomena are real or unreal. To better understand psychological phenomena, their theoretical and empirical properties should be examined via multiple parameters and criteria. Ten such parameters are suggested.

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Momentum in music: Musical succession as physical motion.

Cited by 17 publications

References 160 publications

Psychological momentum and risky decision-making

Psychological momentum and risky decision-making

Psychological momentum: The phenomenology of goal pursuit

Reproducibility in Psychological Science: When Do Psychological Phenomena Exist?

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