Anglada-Tort, Manuel; Masters, Nikhil; Steffens, Jochen; North, Adrian and Müllensiefen, Daniel. 2023. The Behavioural Economics of Music: Systematic review and future directions. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 76(5), pp. 1177-1194. ISSN 1747-0218 [Article]

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Music-related decision-making encompasses a wide range of behaviours including those associated with listening choices, composition and performance, and decisions involving music education and therapy. Although research programmes in psychology and economics have contributed to an improved understanding of music-related behaviour, historically, these disciplines have been unconnected. Recently, however, researchers have begun to bridge this gap by employing tools from behavioural economics. This article contributes to the literature by providing a discussion about the benefits of using behavioural economics in music-decision research. We achieve this in two ways. First, through a systematic review, we identify the current state of the literature within four key areas of behavioural economics—heuristics and biases, social decision-making, behavioural time preferences, and dual-process theory. Second, taking findings of the literature as a starting point, we demonstrate how behavioural economics can inform future research. Based on this, we propose the Behavioural Economics of Music (BEM), an integrated research programme that aims to break new ground by stimulating interdisciplinary research in the intersection between music, psychology, and economics.

Item Type:	Article
Identification Number (DOI):	https://doi.org/10.1177/17470218221113761
Additional Information:	This work was supported by a PhD studentship awarded to Manuel Anglada-Tort from the “Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes” (Bonn, Germany). The supplementary material is available at qjep.sagepub.com.
Keywords:	Behavioural economics, music, decision-making, systematic review, interdisciplinary research
Departments, Centres and Research Units:	Psychology
Dates:	Date Event 24 May 2022 Accepted 16 August 2022 Published Online May 2023 Published
Item ID:	32099
Date Deposited:	18 Aug 2022 08:49
Last Modified:	12 Jun 2024 09:28
Peer Reviewed:	Yes, this version has been peer-reviewed.
URI:	https://research.gold.ac.uk/id/eprint/32099

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