Publications

Open Access

2021 − Present

Vigl, J., Strauss, H., Talamini, F., & Zentner, M. (2025). Trajectories of relationship and sexual satisfaction over two years in the Covid-19 pandemic: A latent class analysis. Journal of Personality, 93(2). https://doi.org/10.1111/jopy.129284

Jacobsen, P.-O.*, Strauss, H.*, Vigl, J., Zangerle, E., & Zentner, M. (2024). Measuring aesthetic music-evoked emotions in a minute or
less. Comparison of the GEMS-45 and the GEMS-9. Musicae Scientiae. https://doi.org/10.1177/10298649241256252

Vigl, J., Talamini, F., Strauss, H., & Zentner, M. (2024). Prosodic discrimination skills mediate the association between musical aptitude and vocal emotion recognition ability. Scientific Reports, 14, 16462. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-66889-y

Moscati, M., Strauß,  H., Jacobsen,  P.-O., Peintner,  A., Zangerle,  E., Zentner,  M., & Schedl, M. (2024). Emotion-Based Music Recommendation from Quality Annotations and Large-Scale User-Generated Tags. Proceedings of the 32nd ACM Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization (UMAP). https://doi.org/10.1145/3627043.3659540

Biedermann, V. & Zentner, M. (2024). Assessing temperament risk factors in late childhood and early adolescence: Development and validation of the Integrative Late Childhood Temperament Inventory. Child Psychiatry and Human Development.  Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10578-024-01675-5.

Vigl, J., Koehler, F., Henning, H. (2024). Exploring the accuracy of musical tempo memory: The effects of reproduction method, reference tempo, and musical expertise. Memory & Cognition. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13421-024-01543-6

Bamford, J. S., Vigl, J., HÀmÀlÀinen, M., Saarikallio, S. H. (2024). Love songs and serenades: A theoretical review of music and romantic relationships. Frontiers in Psychology, 15. 10.3389/fpsyg.2024.1302548

Strauss, H., Vigl, J., Jacobsen, P.-O., Bayer, M., Talamini, F., Vigl, W., Zangerle, E., & Zentner, M. (2024). The Emotion-to-Music Mapping Atlas (EMMA): A systematically organized online database of emotionally evocative music excerpts. Behavior Research Methods. Advance online. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13428-024-02336-0

Parada-Cabaleiro, E., Batliner, A., Zentner, M., & Schedl, M. (2023). Exploring emotions in Bach chorales: a multi-modal perceptual and data-driven study. Royal Society Open Science, 10(12), 230574. https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10.1098/rsos.230574

Vigl, J., Ojell-JÀrventausta, M., Sipola, H. & Saarikallio, S. (2023). Melody for the mind: Enhancing mood, motivation, concentration, and learning through music listening in the classroom. Music & Science, 6, 1-13.  https://doi.org/10.1177/20592043231214085

Vigl, J., Talamini, F., Feller, A., Gerstgrasser, S. & Henning, H. (2023). Accuracy and stability of musical tempo memory and the role of musical expertise. Music Perception, 41(1), 15-35. https://doi.org/10.1525/mp.2023.41.1.15

Vigl, J., & Zentner, M. (2023). How much does performance quality matter in musical emotion induction? Main effects and interaction effects with listener features. Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1037/aca0000590

Strauss, H., Reiche, S., Dick, M., & Zentner, M. (2023). Online assessment of musical ability in 10 minutes: Development and validation of the Micro-PROMS. Behavior Research Methods. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13428-023-02130-4

Strauss, H., Venables, P. & Zentner, M. (2023). Associations between early childhood poverty and cognitive functioning throughout childhood and adolescence: A 14-year prospective longitudinal analysis of the Mauritius Child Health Project. PLOS ONE. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0278618

Vigl, J., Talamini, F., Strauss, H. & Zentner, M. (2023). A prospective study of relationship and sexual satisfaction during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic: The role of dispositional vulnerabilities and external stressors. Journal of Personality. 91(5), 1152-1170. https://doi.org/10.1111/jopy.12790

Georgi, M., Gingras, B., & Zentner, M. (2023). The Tapping-PROMS: A test for the assessment of sensorimotor rhythmic abilities. Frontiers in Psychology, Sect. Auditory Cognitive Neuroscience 13, 8615. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2022.862468

Blain, S., Talamini, F., Fornoni, L., Bidet-Caulet, A., & Caclin, A. (2022). Shared cognitive resources between memory and attention during sound-sequence encoding. Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics, 84(3), 739-759. http://dx.doi.org/10.3758/s13414-021-02390-2

Gerstgrasser, S., Vigl, J., & Zentner, M. (2022). The role of listener features in musical emotion induction: The contributions of musical expertise, personality dispositions, and mood state. Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/aca0000468

Ginzburg, J., Moulin, A., Fornoni, L., Talamini, F., Tillmann, B., & Caclin, A. (2022). Development of auditory cognition in 5‐to 10‐year‐old children: Focus on musical and verbal short‐term memory. Developmental Science, 25(3), e13188.  http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/desc.13188

Martini, M., Wasmeier, J. R., Talamini, F., Huber, S. E., & Sachse, P. (2022). Wakeful resting and listening to music contrast their effects on verbal long-term memory in dependence on word concreteness. Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications, 7(1), 1-14. http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s41235-022-00415-4

Talamini, F., Eller, G., Vigl, J., & Zentner, M. (2022). Musical emotions affect memory for emotional pictures. Scientific Reports, 12(1), 1-8. http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-15032-w

Talamini, F., Blain, S., Ginzburg, J., Houix, O., Bouchet, P., Grassi, M., … & Caclin, A. (2022). Auditory and visual short-term memory: Influence of material type, contour, and musical expertise. Psychological Research, 86(2), 421-442. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00426-021-01519-0

Talamini, F., Vigl, J., Doerr, E., Grassi, M., & Carretti, B. (2022). Auditory and visual mental imagery in musicians and non-musicians. Musicae Scientiae, 27(2), 428-441. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/10298649211062724

Vigl, J., Strauss, H., Talamini, F., & Zentner, M. (2022). Relationship satisfaction in the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic: A cross-national examination of situational, dispositional, and relationship factors. Plos one, 17(3), e0264511. http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0264511

Zentner, M., & von Aufsess, C. (2022). Is being gender nonconforming distressing? It depends where you live: gender equality across 15 nations predicts how much gender nonconformity is related to self-esteem. Psychological medicine, 52(10), 1857-1865. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0033291720003645

Zentner, M., Biedermann, V., Taferner, C., da Cudan, H., Möhler, E., Strauß, H., & Sevecke, K. (2021). Early Detection of Temperament Risk Factors: A Comparison of Clinically Referred and General Population Children. Frontiers in Psychiatry, 12, 942. http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2021.667503

Zentner, M. (2021). Social bonding and credible signaling hypotheses largely disregard the gap between animal vocalizations and human music. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 44. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0140525X2000165X

2015 − 2020

Zentner, M. (2020). Identifying child temperament risk factors from 2 to 8 years of age: validation of a brief temperament screening tool in the US, Europe, and China. European child & adolescent psychiatry, 29(5), 665-678. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00787-019-01379-5

Zentner, M. & Gingras, B. (2019). The assessment of musical ability and its determinants.
In P. Rentfrow & D. J. Levitin, Foundations in Music Psychology: Theory and Research (pp. 641 – 684). MIT Press.

Zentner, M. (2018). A sadness-independent account of the enjoyment of music-evoked sadness: Comment on” An integrative review of the enjoyment of sadness associated with music” by Tuomas Eerola et al. Physics of Life Reviews, 25, 144-146. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.plrev.2018.03.004

Bardi, A., & Zentner, M. (2017). Grand challenges for personality and social psychology: Moving beyond the replication crisis. Frontiers in psychology, 8, 2068. http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2017.02068

Zentner, M., & Strauss, H. (2017). Assessing musical ability quickly and objectively: development and validation of the Short‐PROMS and the Mini-PROMS. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 1400(1), 33-45. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/nyas.13410

Zentner, M., & Eagly, A. H. (2015). A sociocultural framework for understanding partner preferences of women and men: Integration of concepts and evidence. European Review of Social Psychology, 26(1), 328-373. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10463283.2015.1111599

Zentner, M. & Shiner, R. (Eds.) (2015). Handbook of Temperament. New York: Guilford Press.

Zentner, M. & Shiner, R. (2015). Fifty Years of Progress in Temperament Research: A Synthesis of Major Themes, Findings, and Challenges and a Look Forward. In Zentner, M., Shiner, R., Handbook of Temperament (pp. 673 – 700). New York: Guilford Press.

2010 − 2014

Zentner, M., Smolkina, M., & Venables, P. (2014). Effects of measurement aggregation on predicting externalizing problems from preschool behaviour. British journal of developmental psychology, 32(4), 468-479. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/bjdp.12059

Zentner, M., & Wang, F. (2013). Integrative Child Temperament Inventory: ICTI;[Manual]. Hogrefe.

Shiner, R. L., Buss, K. A., McClowry, S. G., Putnam, S. P., Saudino, K. J., & Zentner, M. (2012). What is temperament now? Assessing progress in temperament research on the Twenty‐Fifth Anniversary of Goldsmith et al.(). Child Development Perspectives, 6(4), 436-444. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1750-8606.2012.00254.x

Law, L. N., & Zentner, M. (2012). Assessing musical abilities objectively: Construction and validation of the Profile of Music Perception Skills. PloS one, 7(12), e52508. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0052508

Trost, W., Ethofer, T., Zentner, M., & Vuilleumier, P. (2012). Mapping aesthetic musical emotions in the brain. Cerebral Cortex, 22(12), 2769-2783. https://doi.org/10.1093/cercor/bhr353

Zentner, M., & Mitura, K. (2012). Stepping out of the caveman’s shadow: Nations’ gender gap predicts degree of sex differentiation in mate preferences. Psychological science, 23(10), 1176-1185. https://doi.org/10.1177/0956797612441004

Silvestrini, N., Piguet, V., Cedraschi, C., & Zentner, M. R. (2011). Music and auditory distraction reduce pain: Emotional or attentional effects?. Music and Medicine. (Email us for a copy) 

Zentner, M. (2011). Inventar zur integrativen Erfassung des Kind-Temperaments (IKT). Huber. http://dx.doi.org/10.1024/1661-4747/a000110

Zentner, M., & Eerola, T. (2010). Self-report measures and models. In P. Juslin & J. Sloboda: Handbook of Music and Emotion (pp. 187-221). Oxford: University Press. 

Zentner, M., & Eerola, T. (2010). Rhythmic engagement with music in infancy. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 107(13), 5768-5773. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1000121107

Selected earlier publications

Zentner, M., Grandjean, D., & Scherer, K. R. (2008). Emotions evoked by the sound of music: characterization, classification, and measurement. Emotion, 8(4), 494-521. https://doi.org/10.1037/1528-3542.8.4.494

Scherer, K., & Zentner, M. (2008). Music evoked emotions are different–more often aesthetic than utilitarian. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 31(5), 595-596. https://psycnet.apa.org/doi/10.1017/S0140525X08005505

Zentner, M., & Renaud, O. (2007). Origins of adolescents’ ideal self: an intergenerational perspective. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 92(3), 557-574. https://psycnet.apa.org/doi/10.1037/0022-3514.92.3.557

Guhn, M., Hamm, A., & Zentner, M. (2007). Physiological and musico-acoustic correlates of the chill response. Music Perception, 24(5), 473-484. https://doi.org/10.1525/mp.2007.24.5.473

Zentner, M. R. (2005). Ideal mate personality concepts and compatibility in close relationships: a longitudinal analysis. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 89(2), 242-256. https://psycnet.apa.org/doi/10.1037/0022-3514.89.2.242

Scherer, K. R., & Zentner, M. R. (2001). Emotional effects of music: Production rules. In P. Juslin and J. Sloboda (Eds.), Handbook of Music and Emotion (pp. 361-392). Oxford: OUP Press.

Zentner, M. R. (2001). Preferences for colours and colour‐‐emotion combinations in early childhood. Developmental Science, 4(4), 389-398. https://psycnet.apa.org/doi/10.1111/1467-7687.00180

Kagan, J., Snidman, N., Zentner, M., & Peterson, E. (1999). Infant temperament and anxious symptoms in school age children. Development and psychopathology, 11(2), 209-224. https://psycnet.apa.org/doi/10.1017/S0954579499002023

Kagan, J., & Zentner, M. (1996). Early childhood predictors of adult psychopathology. Harvard Review of Psychiatry, 3(6), 341-350. https://psycnet.apa.org/doi/10.3109/10673229609017202

Zentner, M. R., & Kagan, J. (1996). Perception of music by infants. Nature, 383(6595), 29-29. https://doi.org/10.1038/383029a0