Social Interaction and Musical Preference

Exploring engagement with music in everyday life using experience sampling methodology

“…The functions and effects of listening to music need to be understood in terms of the listening context and in relation to the concurrent activities that might be taking place (DeNora, 1999;Hargreaves et al, 2006;Konečni, 1982;North et al, 2004). Context affects the frequency and the effects of music listening.…”

The Experience of Music in Congenital Amusia

“…The technique, which involves contacting participants in the "stream of everyday life" (Konecni, 1982) and prompting them to complete pre-prepared diary forms relating to their experience of music at that point in time, offers a degree of ecological validity that is lacking from retrospective reports while maintaining a systematic framework that allows experiences and listening behaviors to be evaluated and compared. Sloboda and colleagues (2001) demonstrated the value of the ESM approach for probing the uses and importance of music in every day life in a seminal study focusing on a small sample of individuals (Sloboda, O'Neill, & Ivaldi, 2001).…”

The Effects of Background Auditory Interference and Extraversion on Creative and Cognitive Task Performance

“…Indeed, in an early commentary, Konecni (1982) suggested that music processing requires cognitive capacity, such that listening to music should impair cognitive task performance. As a test of this hypothesis, a number of studies have investigated the effects of music presented during a cognitive task, in comparison with other forms of background noise or music (although a handful of studies have also examined the priming effects of music; e.g., see McKelvie & Low, 2002).…”