Music, empathy and cultural understanding

Clarke, Eric; DeNora, Tia; Vuoskoski, Jonna K.

doi:10.1016/j.plrev.2015.09.001

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“…Simply listening to music activates areas of the brain associated with empathy, positive affect, and pleasure (Lamont, 2011;Rabinowitch, Cross, & Burnard, 2013) which contribute to satisfying relationships (Guerrero, Farinelli, & McEwan, 2009;Robins, Caspi, & Moffitt, 2000). These emotions may be triggered by the release of oxytocin, a hormone strongly linked to social bonding and that facilitates empathy (Clarke, DeNora, & Vuoskoski, 2015;Lamont, 2011). Rabinowitch et al (2013) as well as Kirschner and Tomasello (2010) demonstrate that shared musical activities increase empathy among children.…”

Section: Mediating Process Variables: Interpersonal Coordination and mentioning

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Associations Between Shared Musical Engagement and Parent–Child Relational Quality: The Mediating Roles of Interpersonal Coordination and Empathy

Wallace

Harwood

2018

Journal of Family Communication

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Parent-child musical engagement in childhood and adolescence was assessed as a predictor of relational quality in emerging adulthood. From a perspective grounded in the communicative dynamics of musical engagement, this effect was hypothesized to be mediated by perceptions of interpersonal coordination and empathy between parent and child. Support was found for such mediated effects, particularly with coordination as a mediator. Results persisted when controlling for other forms of positive parent-child activity, thus illustrating the specific relational power of musical engagement, and more generally the importance of attending to what parents and children are doing when they interact.

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Section: Mediating Process Variables: Interpersonal Coordination and mentioning

confidence: 99%

Associations Between Shared Musical Engagement and Parent–Child Relational Quality: The Mediating Roles of Interpersonal Coordination and Empathy

Wallace

Harwood

2018

Journal of Family Communication

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“…Music medicine, music therapy and music milieu are all practices that use music to create supportive, corrective and even transformative experiences, although each has a different focus, as shown in Figure 1. Clarke, DeNora and Vuoskoski (2015) contribute to a theoretical understanding of the 'power of music listening', namely by proposing answers to the question of how music has a capacity not only to support individual wellbeing and comfort, but also to promote empathy and social/cultural understanding through complex affective and cognitive processes involved in empathic music listening. They present a theoretical model integrating knowledge from experimental music psychology and neuromusicology.…”

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Sound and music interventions in psychiatry at Aalborg University Hospital

Lund¹,

Bertelsen²,

Bonde³

2016

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This article reports on the ongoing project development and research study ‘A New Sound and Music Milieu at Aalborg University Hospital’. Based on a number of pilot studies in AUH-Psychiatry on how special playlists and sound equipment (sound pillows and portable players) can be used by hospital patients and administered by hospital staff supervised by music therapists, the new project aims to prepare the ground for a systematic application of sound and music in the hospital environment. A number of playlists have been developed, based on theoretical and empirical research in music medicine and music therapy. A special software and hardware design – ‘The Music Star’– has been developed, and installed in combination with a directional line array speaker in patient rooms in two ICUs at the AUH–Psychiatry. The aim of the project is to empower patients to choose music suited to their needs here and now. In the study we focus on how self-selected music may lead to a decrease in anxiety and pain or improved relaxation/sleep. The article describes and discusses the theory-driven development of the sound/music milieu, relevant empirical studies, the novel method of data collection, preliminary results of the project and implications for the future implementation of the model.

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“…It has long been recognized that music influences people’s psychology in profound ways, as discussed by Plato (2006), Aristotle (1941), and Schopenhauer (1966). In the last few decades, experimental research has revealed the causal effects of music on cognitive, social, and emotional functioning (e.g., Hallam et al, 2011; Fancourt et al, 2014; Clarke et al, 2015). Perhaps one of the most primal functions of music is social bonding.…”

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Joint Rhythmic Movement Increases 4-Year-Old Children’s Prosocial Sharing and Fairness Toward Peers

Rabinowitch

Meltzoff

2017

Front. Psychol.

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The allocation of resources to a peer partner is a prosocial act that is of fundamental importance. Joint rhythmic movement, such as occurs during musical interaction, can induce positive social experiences, which may play a role in developing and enhancing young children’s prosocial skills. Here, we investigated whether joint rhythmic movement, free of musical context, increases 4-year-olds’ sharing and sense of fairness in a resource allocation task involving peers. We developed a precise procedure for administering joint synchronous experience, joint asynchronous experience, and a baseline control involving no treatment. Then we tested how participants allocated resources between self and peer. We found an increase in the generous allocation of resources to peers following both synchronous and asynchronous movement compared to no treatment. At a more theoretical level, this result is considered in relation to previous work testing other aspects of child prosociality, for example, peer cooperation, which can be distinguished from judgments of fairness in resource allocation tasks. We draw a conceptual distinction between two types of prosocial behavior: resource allocation (an other-directed individual behavior) and cooperation (a goal-directed collaborative endeavor). Our results highlight how rhythmic interactions, which are prominent in joint musical engagements and synchronized activity, influence prosocial behavior between preschool peers.

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Music, empathy and cultural understanding

Cited by 173 publications

References 115 publications

Associations Between Shared Musical Engagement and Parent–Child Relational Quality: The Mediating Roles of Interpersonal Coordination and Empathy

Associations Between Shared Musical Engagement and Parent–Child Relational Quality: The Mediating Roles of Interpersonal Coordination and Empathy

Sound and music interventions in psychiatry at Aalborg University Hospital

Joint Rhythmic Movement Increases 4-Year-Old Children’s Prosocial Sharing and Fairness Toward Peers

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