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Bach and personal conflict
Bach’s life was shaken by several confrontations and traumatic events that had important repercussions on his personal and professional development. One of the first documented conflicts with...
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Men with guitar cases
An experiment tested the assumption that music plays a role in sexual selection. Three hundred young women were solicited in the street for their phone number by a young male confederate who held...
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Narcissism and digital erotics
In new video media there is a possibility for a profound change in the representation of sex, eroticism, gender, and sexuality. Freud’s concept of primary narcissism provides important insights into...
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The smell of jazz
People can systematically match information from different senses; these matches are known as crossmodal correspondences. A 2013 study demonstrated that at least some color-music correspondences can...
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Figaro and Freud
In the opening duet of Mozart’s Le nozze di Figaro, Figaro makes Freudian errors in counting and in singing. Susanna, needing emotional support and sensitive to Figaro’s psychology, directs his...
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Tango and therapy
Recent research suggests that tango dancing may be an effective strategy for influencing symptoms related to mood disorders. In one study, 41 participants were randomized to tango dancing for 1.5...
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Rhythm and experimental psychology
In the laboratories of 19th-century experimental psychologists, new concepts of precision-oriented, mechanically regulated musical time emerged as a positive ideal—one that led to the ubiquity of the...
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Jahrbuch für Psychoanalyse und Musik
Psychoanalytic studies of the arts have mainly focused on visual art, literature, and film; launched by Psychosozial-Verlag in 2017, Jahrbuch für Psychoanalyse und Musik (ISSN 2367-2498) aims to fill...
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Beats and bites
In an experiment, eleven subjects unknowingly participated in a study of the effects of music tempo on the number of bites per minute and the total time of the meal. Three music conditions were used:...
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“White Christmas” and fantasy proneness
In an experiment, 44 undergraduate students were asked to listen to white noise and instructed to press a button when they believed that they were hearing a recording of Bing Crosby’s White...
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