TY - JOUR A1 - von Berg, Markus A1 - Steffens, Jochen A1 - Weinzierl, Stefan A1 - Müllensiefen, Daniel T1 - Assessing room acoustic listening expertise JF - Journal of the Acoustical Society of America N2 - Musicians and music professionals are often considered to be expert listeners for listening tests on room acoustics. However, these tests often target acoustic parameters other than those typically relevant in music such as pitch, rhythm, amplitude, or timbre. To assess the expertise in perceiving and understanding room acoustical phenomena, a listening test battery was constructed to measure the perceptual sensitivity and cognitive abilities in the identification of rooms with different reverberation times and different spectral envelopes. Performance in these tests was related to data from the Goldsmiths Musical Sophistication Index, self-reported previous experience in music recording and acoustics, and academic knowledge on acoustics. The data from 102 participants show that sensory and cognitive abilities are both correlated significantly with musical training, analytic listening skills, recording experience, and academic knowledge on acoustics, whereas general interest in and engagement with music do not show any significant correlations. The regression models, using only significantly correlated criteria of musicality and professional expertise, explain only small to moderate amounts (11%–28%) of the variance in the “room acoustic listening expertise” across the different tasks of the battery. Thus, the results suggest that the traditional criteria for selecting expert listeners in room acoustics are only weak predictors of their actual performances. Y1 - 2021 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1121/10.0006574 VL - 150 IS - 4 PB - Acoustical Society of America ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Steffens, Jochen A1 - Schulte-Fortkamp, Brigitte A1 - Becker-Schweitzer, Jörg T1 - Human-machine interaction as influencing factor of indoor soundscape evaluation JF - The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America Y1 - 2012 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1121/1.4708899 VL - 131 IS - 4 PB - AIP ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Steffens, Jochen A1 - Skoda, Sabrina A1 - Becker-Schweitzer, Jörg A1 - Heinze, Michael T1 - Können Wassergeräusche zur Minderung der Lästigkeit von Straßenverkehrslärm im Wohnumfeld [Can water sounds contribute to a reduced annoyance caused by road traffic noise in living environments?] beitragen? JF - Zeitschrift für Lärmbekämpfung KW - Habilitation Y1 - 2014 VL - 9 IS - 4 SP - 172 EP - 178 PB - Springer ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Steffens, Jochen A1 - Steele, Daniel A1 - Guastavino, Catherine T1 - Situational and person-related factors influencing momentary and retrospective soundscape evaluations in day-to-day life JF - The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America KW - Habilitation KW - HB KW - ICA2019 KW - JASA2019 Y1 - 2017 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1121/1.4976627 VL - 141 IS - 3 SP - 1414 EP - 1425 PB - AIP ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Wagner, Stefan A1 - Hallmann, Dijana A1 - Steffens, Jochen A1 - Becker-Schweitzer, Jörg A1 - Kameier, Jörg T1 - Geräuscharme Reifen - Händlerempfehlungen in der Praxis JF - Zeitschrift für Lärmbekämpfung Y1 - 2013 VL - 8 IS - 3 SP - 118 EP - 121 PB - Springer ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Elvers, Paul A1 - Steffens, Jochen T1 - The Sound of Success: Investigating Cognitive and Behavioral Effects of Motivational Music in Sports JF - Frontiers in psychology N2 - Listening to music before, during, or after sports is a common phenomenon, yet its functions and effects on performance, cognition, and behavior remain to be investigated. Listening to music before, during, or after sports is a common phenomenon, yet its functions and effects on performance, cognition, and behavior remain to be investigated. In this study we present a novel approach to the role of music in sports and exercise that focuses on the notion of musical self-enhancement (Elvers, 2016). We derived the following hypotheses from this framework: listening to motivational music will (i) enhance self-evaluative cognition, (ii) improve performance in a ball game, and (iii) evoke greater risk-taking behavior. To evaluate the hypotheses, we conducted a between-groups experiment (N = 150) testing the effectiveness of both an experimenter playlist and a participant-selected playlist in comparison to a no-music control condition. All participants performed a ball-throwing task developed by Decharms and Davé (1965), consisting of two parts: First, participants threw the ball from fixed distances into a funnel basket. During this task, performance was measured. In the second part, the participants themselves chose distances from the basket, which allowed their risk-taking behavior to be assessed. The results indicate that listening to motivational music led to greater risk taking but did not improve ball-throwing performance. This effect was more pronounced in male participants and among those who listened to their own playlists. Furthermore, self-selected music enhanced state self-esteem in participants who were performing well but not in those who were performing poorly. We also discuss further implications for the notion of musical self-enhancement. // Listening to music before, during, or after sports is a common phenomenon, yet its functions and effects on performance, cognition, and behavior remain to be investigated. In this study we present a novel approach to the role of music in sports and exercise that focuses on the notion of musical self-enhancement (Elvers, 2016). We derived the following hypotheses from this framework: listening to motivational music will (i) enhance self-evaluative cognition, (ii) improve performance in a ball game, and (iii) evoke greater risk-taking behavior. To evaluate the hypotheses, we conducted a between-groups experiment (N = 150) testing the effectiveness of both an experimenter playlist and a participant-selected playlist in comparison to a no-music control condition. All participants performed a ball-throwing task developed by Decharms and Davé (1965), consisting of two parts: First, participants threw the ball from fixed distances into a funnel basket. During this task, performance was measured. In the second part, the participants themselves chose distances from the basket, which allowed their risk-taking behavior to be assessed. The results indicate that listening to motivational music led to greater risk taking but did not improve ball-throwing performance. This effect was more pronounced in male participants and among those who listened to their own playlists. Furthermore, self-selected music enhanced state self-esteem in participants who were performing well but not in those who were performing poorly. We also discuss further implications for the notion of musical self-enhancement. KW - Motivation KW - motor coordination KW - Music KW - risk taking KW - self-enhancement KW - Self-esteem KW - sports Y1 - 2017 U6 - https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2017.02026 VL - 8 PB - Frontiers ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Anglada-Tort, Manuel A1 - Steffens, Jochen A1 - Müllensiefen, Daniel T1 - Names and titles matter: The impact of linguistic fluency and the affect heuristic on aesthetic and value judgements of music JF - Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts Y1 - 2019 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1037/aca0000172 VL - 13 IS - 3 SP - 277 EP - 292 PB - APA ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Greb, Fabian A1 - Schlotz, Wolff A1 - Steffens, Jochen T1 - Personal and situational influences on the functions of music listening JF - Psychology of Music Y1 - 2018 VL - 46 IS - 6 SP - 763 EP - 794 PB - Sage ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Greb, Fabian A1 - Steffens, Jochen A1 - Schlotz, Wolff T1 - Understanding music-selection behavior via statistical learning JF - Music & Science KW - daily life KW - lasso regression KW - music listening behavior KW - music selection behavior KW - percentile-lasso KW - situational influences KW - Statistical learning Y1 - 2018 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1177/2059204318755950 VL - 1 IS - 2 SP - 1 EP - 17 PB - Sage ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Greb, Fabian A1 - Steffens, Jochen A1 - Schlotz, Wolff T1 - Modeling Music-Selection Behavior in Everyday Life: A Multilevel Statistical Learning Approach and Mediation Analysis of Experience Sampling Data JF - Frontiers in psychology N2 - Music listening has become a highly individualized activity with smartphones and music streaming services providing listeners with absolute freedom to listen to any kind of music in any situation. Until now, little has been written about the processes underlying the selection of music in daily life. The present study aimed to disentangle some of the complex processes among the listener, situation, and functions of music listening involved in music selection. Utilizing the experience sampling method, data were collected from 119 participants using a smartphone application. For 10 consecutive days, participants received 14 prompts using stratified-random sampling throughout the day and reported on their music-listening behavior. Statistical learning procedures on multilevel regression models and multilevel structural equation modeling were used to determine the most important predictors and analyze mediation processes between person, situation, functions of listening, and music selection. Results revealed that the features of music selected in daily life were predominantly determined by situational characteristics, whereas consistent individual differences were of minor importance. Functions of music listening were found to act as a mediator between characteristics of the situation and music-selection behavior. We further observed several significant random effects, which indicated that individuals differed in how situational variables affected their music selection behavior. Our findings suggest a need to shift the focus of music-listening research from individual differences to situational influences, including potential person-situation interactions. KW - music-listening behavior KW - music-selection behavior KW - machine learning Y1 - 2019 U6 - https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2019.00390 N1 - This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). VL - 10 PB - Frontiers ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Lepa, Steffen A1 - Herzog, Martin A1 - Steffens, Jochen A1 - Schoenrock, Andreas A1 - Egermann, Hauke T1 - A computational model for predicting perceived musical expression in branding scenarios JF - Journal of New Music Research KW - ABC_DJ KW - Audio Branding Y1 - 2020 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1080/09298215.2020.1778041 VL - 49 IS - 4 SP - 387 EP - 402 PB - Taylor & Francis ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Luizard, Paul A1 - Steffens, Jochen A1 - Weinzierl, Stefan T1 - Singing in different rooms: Common or individual adaptation patterns to the acoustic conditions? JF - The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America Y1 - 2020 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1121/10.0000715 N1 - Open Access Veröffentlichung VL - 147 IS - 2 PB - ASA ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Rosenfeld, Ninett A1 - Steffens, Jochen T1 - Effects of congruency of combined audiovisual stimuli in movie scenes on perceived emotions in the context of film reception JF - Psychomusicology: Music, Mind & Brain Y1 - 2019 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1037/pmu0000242 VL - 29 IS - 4 SP - 200 EP - 208 PB - APA ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Skoda, Sabrina A1 - Steffens, Jochen A1 - Becker-Schweitzer, Jörg T1 - Einfluss von Beschleunigungskräften auf die Geräuschbewertung im Fahrzeuginnenraum JF - Zeitschrift für Lärmbekämpfung Y1 - 2012 N1 - steffens VL - 7 IS - 1 SP - 24 EP - 28 PB - Springer ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Skoda, Sabrina A1 - Steffens, Jochen A1 - Küppers, Thomas T1 - Auditory-proprioceptive interaction – How do acceleration forces influence the evaluation of driving sounds? JF - Journal of the Acoustical Society of America Y1 - 2011 VL - 130 IS - 4 PB - AIP ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Steffens, Jochen T1 - Urteilsbildung bei der subjektiven Bewertung des Innengeräusches von Elektrofahrzeugen JF - Zeitschrift für Lärmbekämpfung Y1 - 2012 VL - 7 IS - 3 SP - 133 EP - 135 PB - Springer ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Steffens, Jochen T1 - Neue Einblicke in die Bewertung von Soundscapes mithilfe der Experience Sampling Methode [New Insights into Soundscape Evaluations Using the Experience Sampling Method] JF - Zeitschrift für Lärmbekämpfung Y1 - 2016 VL - 11 IS - 1 SP - 20 EP - 22 PB - Springer ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Steffens, Jochen T1 - The influence of film music on moral judgments of movie scenes and felt emotions JF - Psychology of Music KW - effects of music KW - Emotion KW - film music KW - moral foundations KW - moral judgments KW - soundtrack Y1 - 2020 VL - 48 SP - 3 EP - 17 PB - Sage ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Steffens, Jochen A1 - Guastavino, Catherine T1 - Trend Effects of Momentary and Retrospective Soundscape Evaluations JF - Acta Acustica united with Acustica KW - Habilitation KW - HB KW - ICA2019 KW - JASA2019 Y1 - 2015 VL - 101 SP - 713 EP - 722 PB - Hirzel ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Steffens, Jochen A1 - Küppers, Thomas A1 - Skoda, Sabrina T1 - Psychological factors influencing the evaluation of electric vehicle interior noise JF - Journal of the Acoustical Society of America N2 - Increasing global awareness of the benefits of electromobility has brought about the need for new concepts in terms of the acoustic design of future vehicle generations. This includes both the creative design process and the development of suitable methods for the evaluation of target sounds by trial participants. The main difference between e-car sound surveys and those carried out on familiar sound categories is the potential consumer’s lack of experience with electric vehicles. Thus the consumer has no, or very unspecific, expectations in this regard. Several studies have consequently shown that many subjects have to construct their personal frame of reference for evaluation within the listening experiment. However, this is possibly at odds with experience-based expectations relating to the sounds of conventional combustion engines. The result is a conflict of objectives between the traditional and the modern, familiarity and strangeness and not least between driving freedom and ecological awareness. In this context, the authenticity of the sound and the subjective interpretability of the sound information also appear as moderator variables. Moreover, associations with other vehicle categories, for example streetcars, also influence the perceived sound quality. In the course of this contribution, these factors will be expounded and their influence on the evaluation of interior noise discussed. KW - HB Y1 - 2011 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1121/1.3655176 VL - 130 IS - 4 PB - AIP ER -