“…For instance, Thayer, Newman, and McClain (1994) found music listening to be second in success at changing a bad mood, raising energy, and reducing tension when compared to 18 other regulatory strategies such as humor or physical exercise. Music has been proposed to serve as a means for self-therapy (DeNora, 1999;Sloboda & O'Neill, 2001), have beneficial effects on stress reduction (Pelletier, 2004), and enhance mood improvement and coping both in everyday life contexts (e.g., Saarikallio & Erkkilä, 2007) and in clinical settings (e.g., Kenny & Faunce, 2004;Särkämö et al, 2008). Recent research has investigated central processes of music-related mood regulation identifying music-related regulatory goals and strategies (Saarikallio & Erkkilä, 2007;Van Goethem, 2009) as well as various music-related emotion induction mechanisms causing the mood change (e.g., Juslin & Västfjäll, 2008).…”