With its schema-activating potential to influence an audience's perception and interpretation
of film plot and protagonists, film music goes far beyond the role of an emotionalizing …

This study examines the relationship between instrumental timbre and brand personality
and its underlying mechanisms. Our findings demonstrate that the connotative meanings of …

Despite the wide body of literature available on the sound symbolism of food, the role of
timbre in influencing food perception is yet underexplored. Given the shared gender …

This study examines the representation of male and female musicians in world-class
symphony orchestras. Personnel of 40 orchestras of three regions, the UK, Europe, and the …

Audiences expect music performers to follow tacit dress codes for the concert stage. In
classical music performance, audiences favor performers in formal dress over casual dress …

Literature in music theory and psychology shows that, even in isolation, musical sounds can
reliably encode gender-loaded messages. Musical material can be imbued with many …

Women's participation in professional orchestras has changed the gender dynamics in the
Australian music workplace. Traditional binary gender bias is pervasive in all industries, but …

This study examines gender coding in sound and music, in a context where music plays a
supportive role to other modalities, such as in toy advertising. We trained a series of binary …

Companies increasingly seek to use gay protagonists in audio-visual commercials to attract
a new affluent target group. There is also growing demand for the diversity present in society …

I develop a game-theoretic framework to study the repercussions of an evaluator's bias
against a specific group of applicants. The evaluator decides upfront between holding an …