Amanda Krause

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i simply thought today was a day people weren't emailing me which was fortuitous for working on a manuscript. silly me. it was just that outlook wasn't working - CUE 50 emails coming in AT ONCE after the work day ended.

#AcademicThoughts

🎧 Why does the same song make you feel different things at different times?

My new paper shows it’s not just the music — it’s your goals.

👉 Do our goals shape the emotions music evokes?
🎥 2-minute visual abstract below.

doi: doi.org/10.1177/1029...

Exploring geographic and cultural differences in preferences for valence and arousal in music using regional music charts - Lewis Nitschinsk, Dianna Vidas, Hugh T McGovern, Nicholas MA Smith, 2026 Music can evoke and enable emotional expression. Yet few studies have investigated which aspects of music preference are universal, and which aspects vary geogr...

Almost 5 years ago now, when we were little PhD students, a group of us had a paper idea. We huddled together in our cramped office meeting room to write an early version of this paper. MANY iterations later, we're all now postdocs, and the paper is now out!

journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Genetic underpinnings of chills from art and music Author summary Many people experience chills when listening to music, reading poetry, or viewing art. Yet not everyone feels these reactions in the same way. These differences provide a window into ho...

A particular moment in my favourite Radiohead song always gives me goosebumps every time I play it. Turns out susceptibility to such “chills” (induced by music, poetry, art) varies between people & that genetic differences play a part. Check out our new paper, led by @giacomobignardi.bsky.social. 👇🧪

Burnout by a Million Paper Cuts (opinion) Behold: a job posting you’d never accept, but already did.

This is worth reading for those in higher ed:

www.insidehighered.com/opinion/care...

three tubs marching band players as part of a larger tile mosaic.

largest mosaic in australia; charters towers, qld. #MiEL

mural painting of a woman holding a guitar and also a white brahman cow.

mural, charters towers, qld. #MiEL

Cover of an issue of The Call Letter, a newsletter from KTSB 91.7 cable FM, the predecessor to KVRX-FM at the University of Texas, Austin. Source: DLARC College Radio (digitized from KVRX’s on-site collection) featuring cartoon aliens in spacecraft and text: "we're here.”

🎉 Celebrate World Radio Day! 🎙️

Tune into college & community radio history, from vintage playlists to searchable transcripts of historic broadcasts.

It’s all in our blog ⬇️
blog.archive.org/2026/02/13/t...

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#WorldRadioDay #InternetArchive

✨Announcing the 2026 #AMPlify Series 📣

We are excited to announce the 2026 AMPlify ECR professional development series featuring a dynamic line-up of inspiring speakers! #savethedate

Excited to announce our article has been published! doi.org/10.1177/2059...

I led a project to operationalise constructs that identify the emotional episodes people experience listening to music. #MusicScience experts assessed items against prior theory, a surprisingly under reported practice 🔭❗

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MUSICONNEX conference addresses the following questions: How can music help to connect with self and others? How can we study and measure this across mind, body, and varied contexts? What are the related next steps in research and engagement platforms?

Important dates: Abstract submission opens on the 2nd of February, 2026. Abstract submittion deadline is the 31st of March, 2026. For more information, visit our website.

We are excited to announce the MUSICONNEX Conference!
The hybrid conference will be hosted @coe-mmbb.bsky.social , @uniofjyvaskyla.bsky.social, Finland, on Sept 22–24th 2026. Check our keynotes, website, and contact information in the comments.
#musicscience #musicresearch #musiconnex

More information here: musicscience.net/events/sysmu...

Frontiers | Does music support executive functions and affective responses during acute exercise? A systematic review and meta-analysis IntroductionMaintaining a steady running pace despite physical or mental fatigue often engages executive functions. These functions may contribute to sustain...

New systematic review/meta-analysis: Music is widely used in exercise, yet its cognitive & affective effects remain unclear. Results show no consistent overall effects, but meta-regression indicates that higher exercise intensity predicts smaller effects of music. Read more: doi.org/10.3389/fpsy...

Can Music Make You Fall in Love? How Music Shapes Romance, Attraction, and Heartbreak From the first song that sparks attraction to the tunes that help us heal after heartbreak, music profoundly influences how we experience…

Nice to see our MEL model mentioned here. Music is a really important part of many people's romantic lives! medium.com/illumination...

2026 is off to a great start! 🎉 Excited to share my new open-access publication in @plosone.org! 🎶 This study examines how our sense of self (self-construal) influences the pleasure (musical reward) we get from listening to our favourite music. Read it here: doi.org/10.1371/jour...

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Can the same song make you feel happy and sad? Our new study shows emotional complexity—feeling both positive and negative emotions—is common with personally meaningful music, but varies across people. Discover what influences it: doi.org/10.1016/j.jr...

#musicscience #emotions #personalityresearch

🛎️ Chrisp, Putter & Krause (2026). How music listening can support antepartum and intrapartum maternal well-being: A scoping review. Music Perception, 43(3), 284-305. doi.org/10.1525/mp.2...

now issued, available at: online.ucpress.edu/mp/article/4...

see recap thread at: bsky.app/profile/stud...

playing xylophones on the waterfront.

#MiEL - busking at the waterfront, ZA.

guitar statue.

#MiEL - waterfront, cape town, ZA.

statue of a rabbit playing a flute.

#MiEL - melrose arch, ZA.

home school singing chart.

record player.

piano.

musical instruments.

#MiEL - music stuffs in the gold mining homes @ gold reef city, ZA.

#MiEL - dance performances at lesedi cultural village, ZA.

djembe drum.

#MiEL - drumming lesson at lesedi cultural village, ZA.

#MiEL - beautiful choir wedding performance - Stellenbosch, ZA.

wall graffiti mural of a dj.

#MiEL - Soweto, ZA.

#MiEL - Soweto, ZA.

jcu graduation. three people in phd gowns and hats.

love graduation (aka floppy hat time). well done to all the @jcuofficial.bsky.social psych grads.
w. @helloklaire.bsky.social and @danjmiller3.bsky.social

And here is the graph in question:

Popular Music Explore the article collection: Popular Music. Published in Information, Communication & Society.

Free access music article collection!
@zaborowski.bsky.social & I edited a collection of 20 music academic articles for journal @icsjournal.bsky.social

www.tandfonline.com/journals/ric...

Machines are talking about you behind your back For many years, this postcard was taped to my office door: It’s funny because it’s true. The machines really do talk about us behind our backs. Machines talking to machines helped me pa…

Things have been shitty, making it hard to write, but I managed this post and I'm pretty happy with it thesiswhisperer.com/2025/12/11/m...