Farewell to Holbrook & Schindler’s (1989) “Song-Specific Age”? – Little Evidence for Lifelong Influence of Age-Specific Musical Preferences

As predicted by Holbrook and Schindler (1989) in a seminal study, popular music from the charts released when a person is roughly 23.47 years old (so-called Song-Specific Age, SSA) has a particularly positive impact on that person’s song evaluations decades later. In our replication study, N = 162 p...

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Main Authors: Reinhard Kopiez, Jan Weigang, Friedrich Platz, Nina Düvel
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SAGE Publishing 2021-04-01
Series:Music & Science
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1177/20592043211001794