Haley E. Kragness

TL;DR: In this paper, a large-scale, multisite study aimed at assessing the overall replicability of a single theoretically important phenomenon and examining methodological, cultural, and developmental moderators was conducted.

TL;DR: It is suggested that Granger-coupling of co-actors’ body sways reflects joint emotional expression in a music ensemble, and thus provide a novel approach to studying jointotional expression.

TL;DR: It is demonstrated that romantic interest is reflected by non-verbal body sway in dyads in a real-world dating setting, and enhanced by movement-promoting background music.

TL;DR: This article found that early musical abilities significantly predicted later abilities, demonstrating that individual differences are stable over time and emphasizing the importance of considering preexisting abilities in any type of learning, but they found no evidence that music training predicted musical ability after accounting for prior ability.

TL;DR: Results found for a group of nonmusicians suggest that phrase-final lengthening in musical production is not dependent on musical training and can be evoked by harmonic cues.