The unexpected side-effects of dissonance

Psychology of Music

Volumn 35, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 286-305

  Bodner, Ehud ^a   Gilboa, Avi ^a   Amir, Dorit ^a  

^a BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Arousal; Cognitive performance; Dissonance consonance; Industry; Music

Indexed keywords

EID: 47549103876     PISSN: 03057356     EISSN: 17413087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0305735607070381     Document Type: Article

References (50)

1. Aronson, E. (1988) The Social Animal. Orange, VA: W.E. Freeman
2. Asch, S. E. (1955) 'Opinions and Social Pressure', Scientific American 193 (5). 31-35
3. Aspinwall, L. G. and Richter, L. (1999) 'Optimism and Self-mastery Predict More Rapid Disengagement from Unsolvable Tasks in the Presence of Alternatives', Motivation and Emotion 23 (3). 221-245
4. Berlyne, D. E. (1960) Conflict, Arousal, and Curiosity. New York: McGraw-Hill
5. Berlyne, D. E. (1971) Aesthetics and Psychobiology. New York: Appleton-Century Crofts
6. Berlyne, D. E. (1974) Studies in the New Experimental Aesthetics: Steps toward an Objective Psychology of Aesthetic Appreciation. New York: Halsted
7. Blood, A. J., Zatorre, R. J., Bermudez, P. and Evans, A. C. (1999) 'Emotional Responses to Pleasant and Unpleasant Music Correlate with Activity in Paralimbic Brain Regions', Nature Neuroscience 2 (4). 382-387
8. Bodner, E. and Mikulincer, M. (1998) 'Learned Helplessness and the Occurrence of Depressive-like and Paranoid-like Responses: The Role of Attentional Focus', Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 74 (4). 1010-1023
9. Costa, M., Bitti, P. E. R. and Bonfiglioli, L. (2000) 'Psychological Connotations of Harmonic Musical Intervals', Psychology of Music 28 (1). 4-22
10. Dannenbaum, A. (1945) 'The Effect of Music on Visual Acuity', Sarah Lawrence Studies 4: 18-26
11. Dholakia, U. M. and Bagozzi, R. P. (2002) 'Mustering Motivation to Enact Decisions: How Decision Process Characteristics Influence Goal Realization', Journal of Behavioral Decision Making 15 (3). 167-188
12. Dibben, N. (1999) 'The Perception of Structural Stability in Atonal Music: The Influence of Salience, Stability, Horizontal Motion, Pitch Commonality, and Dissonance', Music Perception 16 (3). 265-294
13. Easterbrook, J. A. (1959) 'The Effect of Emotion on Cue Utilization and the Organization of Behavior', Psychological Review 66 (3). 183-201
14. Eysenck, H. (1967) The Biological Basis of Personality. Springfield, IL: Thomas
15. Freeburne, C. M. and Fleischer, M. S. (1952) 'The Effect of Music Distraction upon Reading Rate and Comprehension', Journal of Educational Psychology 43: 101-110
16. Folkard, S., Knauth, P., Monk, T. H. and Rutenfranz, J. (1976) 'The Effect of Memory Load on the Circadian Variation in Performance Efficiency under a Rapidly Rotating Shift System', Ergonomics 19 (4). 479-488
17. Fox, J. G. (1971) 'Background Music and Industrial Efficiency - A Review', Applied Ergonomics 2 (2). 70-73
18. Furnham, A. and Allass, K. (1999) 'The Influence of Musical Distraction of Varying Complexity on the Cognitive Performance of Extroverts and Introverts', European Journal of Personality 13 (1). 27-38
19. Furnham, A. and Bradley, A. (1997) 'Music While You Work: The Differential Distraction of Background Music on the Cognitive Test Performance of Introverts and Extraverts', Applied Cognitive Psychology 11 (5). 445-455
20. Furnham, A. and Strbac, L. (2002) 'Music is as Distracting as Noise: The Differential Distraction of Background Music and Noise on the Cognitive Test Performance of Introverts and Extroverts', Ergonomics 45 (3). 203-217
21. Furnham, A., Trew, S. and Sneade, I. (1999) 'The Distracting Effects of Vocal and Instrumental Music on the Cognitive Test Performance of Introverts and Extraverts', Personality and Individual Differences 27 (2). 381-392
22. Gladstones, W. H. (1969) 'Some Effects of Commercial Background Music on Data Preparation Operators', Occupational Psychology 43: 213-222
23. Gorn, G., Pham, M. T. and Sin, L. Y. (2001) 'When Arousal Influences and Evaluation and Valence Does Not (and Vice Versa)', Journal of Consumer Psychology 11 (1). 43-55
24. Helmholtz, H. L. F. (1912) On the Sensation of Tones. London: Longmans, Green
25. Jacoby, J. (1968) 'Work Music and Morale: A Neglected but Important Relationship', Personnel Journal 47 (12). 882-886
26. Kerr, W. A. (1944) 'Psychological Research in Industrial Music and Plant Broadcasting', The Journal of Psychology 17: 243-261
27. Kiger, D. (1989) 'Effects of Music Information Load on Reading Comprehension Task', Perceptual and Motor Skills 69: 531-534
28. Kirkpatric, F. H. (1943) 'Music Takes the Mind Away', Personnel Journal 22: 225-228
29. Konečni, V. J. (1982) 'Social Interaction and Musical Preference', in D. Deutsch (ed.). The Psychology of Music. New York: Academy Press
30. Konečni, V. J. and Sargent-Pollock, D. (1976) 'Choice between Melodies Differing in Complexity under Divided Attention Conditions', Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance 2 (3). 347-356
31. Konečni, V. J., Crozier, J. B. and Doob, A. N. (1976) 'Anger and Expression of Aggression: Effects on Aesthetic Preference', Scientific Aesthetics/Sciences de l'Art 1: 47-55
32. Ludlin, R. W. (1947) 'Towards a Cultural Theory of Consonance', Journal of Psychology 23: 45-49
33. Ludlin, R. W. (1967) An Objective Psychology of Music. New York: Ronald Press
34. Meyer, L. B. (1956) Emotion and Meaning in Music. Chicago: University of Chicago Press
35. Miller, A. and Hom, H. L. (1990) 'Influence of Extrinsic and Ego Incentive Value on Persistence after Failure and Continuing Motivation', Journal of Educational Psychology 82 (3). 539-545
36. Muzak Limited Partnership (1988) Environmental Music by Muzak in the Office/Workplace. Seattle, WA: Author
37. Newman, R. I., Hunt, D. L. and Rhodes, F. (1966) 'Effects of Music on Employee Attitude and Productivity in a Skateboard Factory', Journal of Applied Psychology 50 (6). 493-496
38. North, A. C. and Hargreaves, D. J. (1997) 'Experimental Aesthetics and Everyday Music Listening', in D. J. Hargreaves and A. C. North (eds) The Social Psychology of Music, pp. 84-103. New York: Oxford University Press
39. North, A. C. and Hargreaves, D. J. (2000) 'Musical Preferences During and After Relaxation and Exercise', The American Journal of Psychology 113 (1). 43-68
40. Oldham, G. R., Cummings, A., Mischel, L. J., Schmidtke, J. M. and Zhou, J. (1995) 'Listen While You Work? Quasi-experimental Relations between Personal-stereo Headset Use and Employee Work Responses', Journal of Applied Psychology 80 (5). 547-564
41. Peretz, I., Blood, A. J., Penhune, V. and Zatorre, R. (2001) 'Cortical Deafness to Dissonance', Brain 124 (5). 928-940
42. Peters, M. L. (1970) 'A Comparison of the Music Sensitivity of Mongoloid and Normal Children', Journal of Music Therapy 7 (4). 113-123
43. Schachter, S. and Singer, J. E. (1962) 'Cognitive, Social, and Physiological Determinants of Emotional State', Psychological Review 69 (5). 379-399
44. Smith, W. A. S. (1961) 'Effects of Industrial Music in a Work Situation Requiring Complex Mental Activity', Psychological Reports 8: 159-162
45. Solomon, E. H. (1994) 'When Consonance is Not Enough...: A Study of the Use of Dissonant Music in Psychotherapy', Journal of Creative Behavior 28 (2). 141-149
46. Storr, A. (1992) Music and the Mind. St Louis, MO: MMB Music
47. Tekman, H. G. (1998) 'A Multidimensional Study of Preference for Excerpts of Music', Psychological Reports', 82 (3). 851-860
48. Terhardt, E. (1974) 'Pitch, Consonance, and Harmony', Journal of Acoustical Society of America 55 (4). 1061-1069
49. Uhrbock, R. S. (1961) 'Music on the Job: Its Influence on Worker Morale and Production', Personnel Psychology 14 (1). 9-38
50. Van-Krevelen, A. (1963) 'The Influence of Music on Reactions to Frustration', Journal of General Psychology, 68 (1). 107-110