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. 2021 Sep 30:44:e80.
doi: 10.1017/S0140525X2000120X.

Mind the gap: The mediating role of emotion mechanisms in social bonding through musical activities

Patrik N Juslin  1
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Mind the gap: The mediating role of emotion mechanisms in social bonding through musical activities

Patrik N Juslin. Behav Brain Sci. .

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I support the music and social bonding (MSB) framework, but submit that the authors' predictions lack discriminative power, and that they do not engage sufficiently with the emotion mechanisms that mediate between musical features and social bonding. I elaborate on how various mechanisms may contribute, in unique ways, to social bonding at various levels to help account for the socio-emotional effects of music.

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    Savage PE, Loui P, Tarr B, Schachner A, Glowacki L, Mithen S, Fitch WT. Savage PE, et al. Behav Brain Sci. 2020 Aug 20;44:e59. doi: 10.1017/S0140525X20000333. Behav Brain Sci. 2020. PMID: 32814608

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