Music is a crucial element of everyday life. People spend hours listening to it and billions of
dollars buying it. Yet despite the pervasiveness of music, mainstream social‐personality …

There is an increasingly robust literature of recent research findings that support the
developmental importance of music in adolescence. However, this intriguing literature is not …

Popular accounts of “lifestyle politics” and “culture wars” suggest that political and
ideological divisions extend also to leisure activities, consumption, aesthetic taste, and …

Are there developmental trends in how individuals experience and engage with music?
Data from 2 large cross-sectional studies involving more than a quarter of a million …

Music is one of the most pleasant human experiences, even though it has no direct
biological advantage. However little is known about individual differences in how people …

The opinions of others can easily affect how much we value things. We investigated what
happens in our brain when we agree with others about the value of an object and whether or …

The period between 15 and 25 years is characterised by much personal change and is the
peak age of onset of mental health problems. This prompts an interest in everyday strategies …

How can shared music preferences create social bonds between people? A process model
is developed in which music preferences as value-expressive attitudes create social bonds …

We review the research conducted in the past 15 years concerned with the role of friends
and peers in adolescent body dissatisfaction. A number of friend and peer group …

Families are central to the social and emotional development of youth, and most families
engage in musical activities together, such as listening to music or talking about their favorite …