List of publications

A) Peer-reviewed scientific articles

Vuoskoski, J. K. & Peltola, H.-R. (2024). The Aversive Musical Experience Scale (AMES): Measuring individual differences in the intensity of music-evoked aversion. Psychology of Music. https://doi.org/10.1177/03057356241239336

Peltola, H.-R. & Vuoskoski, J. K. (2022). "I hate this part right here": Embodied, subjective experiences of listening to aversive music. Psychology of Music, 50(1), 159–174.  https://doi.org/10.1177/0305735620988596

Pääkkölä, A.-E., Käpylä, T., & Peltola, H.-R. (2021). Populaarimusiikkitoiminnassa koettu sukupuolittunut epäasiallisuus. [Experiences of gendered inappropriateness in the field of Finnish popular music]. Musiikki, 2, 55–82, DOI: https://doi.org/10.51816/musiikki.110848.

Eerola, T., Vuoskoski, J., Kautiainen, H., Peltola, H.-R., Putkinen, V., & Schäfer, K. (2021). Being moved by listening to unfamiliar sad music induces reward-related hormonal changes in empathic listeners. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, https://doi.org/10.1111/nyas.14660

Carlson, E., Wilson, J., Baltazar, M., Duman, D., Peltola, H.-R., Toiviainen, P., & Saarikallio, S. (2021). The role of music in everyday life during the first wave of the coronavirus pandemic: A mixed-methods exploratory study. Frontiers in Psychology, https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.647756

Zickfeld, J., van de Ven, N., Pich, O. […], Peltola, H.-R., et al. (2021). Tears evoke the intention to offer social support: A systematic investigation of the interpersonal effect of emotional crying across 41 countries. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 95, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jesp.2021.104137

Peltola, H.-R. (2018). "Lauluja surullisin sävelin elämästä luopumisesta": musiikki kuoleman ja surun merkityksellistäjänä suomalaisessa suremisessa ja siihen liittyvissä rituaaleissa ["Sad songs about letting life go": music as a signifier for death and grief in Finnish mourning and death rituals]. Thanatos, 7(1), 32–67. https://thanatosjournal.files.wordpress.com/2018/06/peltola_musiikki_kuoleman.pdf

Eerola, T., Vuoskoski, J. K., Peltola, H.-R., Putkinen, V., & Schäfer, K. (2018). An integrative review of the enjoyment of sadness associated with music. Physics of Life Reviews, 25, 100–121. 

Peltola, H.-R. (2017). Sharing experienced sadness: Negotiating meanings of self-defined sad music within a group interview session. Psychology of Music, 1(45), 82–98.

Eerola, T., & Peltola, H.-R. (2016). Memorable experiences with sad music – Reasons, reactions and mechanisms of three types of experiences. PlosOne. http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0157444

Peltola, H.-R., & Eerola, T. (2016). Fifty shades of blue: Classification of music-evoked sadness. Musicae Scientiae, 20(1), 84–102. 

Eerola, T., Peltola, H.-R., & Vuoskoski, J. (2015). Attitudes toward sad music are related to both preferential and contextual strategies.  Psychomusicology: Music, Mind, and Brain, 25 (2), 116-123. doi:10.1037/pmu0000096

Tuuri, K., & Peltola, H.-R. (2014). Imagining between ourselves: a group interview approach in exploring listening experiences. In M. Grimshaw, & M. Walther-Hansen (Eds.), Proceedings of the 9th Audio Mostly: A Conference on Interaction With Sound (pp. 6). Association for computing machinery. doi: 10.1145/2636879.2636887 

Peltola, H.-R., & Saresma, T. (2014). Spatial and bodily metaphors in narrating the experience of listening to sad music. Musicae Scientiae, 18(3), 292–306.

B) Non-refereed scientific articles

Peltola, H.-R. (2022). Musiikki ja luovuus. [Music and creativity.] In J. Louhivuori, S. Saarikallio, & P. Toiviainen (Eds.), Musiikkipsykologia (2nd edition, pp. 349–368). Jyväskylä: Eino Roiha -säätiö.

Peltola, H.-R., Saarikallio, S., & Eerola, T. (2022). Musiikki ja tunteet. [Music and emotions.] In J. Louhivuori, S. Saarikallio, & P. Toiviainen (Eds.), Musiikkipsykologia (2nd edition, pp. 369–397). Jyväskylä: Eino Roiha -säätiö

Eerola, T., Vuoskoski, J., Peltola, H.-R., Putkinen, V., & Schäfer, K. (2018). Towards more explicit account of the transformation: Reply to comments on "An integrative review of the enjoyment of sadness associated with music". Physics of Life Reviews, 25, 156–166. 

Peltola, H.-R. & Eerola, T. (2012). Suomalaisten käyttämät tunnesanat musiikin esittämien ja herättämien emootioiden kuvaamisessa. [Finnish emotion words used in describing emotions expressed and induced by music.] In T. Himberg, J. Vuoskoski, & T. Eerola (Eds.), Monitieteinen musiikintutkimus: Suomen musiikintutkijoiden 16. Symposium. The 16th Annual Symposium for Music Scholars in Finland, Jyväskylä 21.–23.3.2012. Conference proceedings (pp. 90–96). Jyväskylä, Finland: University of Jyväskylä. 

C) Scientific books and book chapters

Peltola, H.-R. (2023). “The Kind of Music That Makes My Skin Crawl” : Disgust Associated with Musical Experiences. In M. Ryynänen, H. Kosonen, & S. Ylönen (Eds.), Cultural Approaches to Disgust and the Visceral (pp. 147-159). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003205364-16

Tuuri, K., & Peltola, H.-R. (2019). Building worlds together with sound and music: Imagination as an active engagement between ourselves. In M. Grimshaw-Aagaard, M. Walther-Hansen, & M. Knakkergaard (Eds.). Handbook of Sound and Imagination. Oxford: University Press.

Tuuri, K., & Peltola, H.-R. (2018). Toinen persoona musiikillisen kuuntelukokemuksen tutkimisessa. [Second-person perspective in researching experiences of listening to music]. (Book chapter) In J. Toikka & I. Virtanen (Eds.). Kokemuksen tutkimus VI: Kokemuksen käsite ja käyttö (pp. 149–168). Rovaniemi, FI: Lapland University Press.

Peltola, H.-R. (2016). Kind of blue: Emotions experienced in relation to nominally sad music. (Doctoral dissertation). Jyväskylä Studies in Humanities.

D) Publications intended for professional communities

Tuuri, K., Peltola, H.-R., & Pihala, J. (Eds.). (2017). Back to the future of music research: Suomen musiikintutkijoiden 21. Symposium / The 21. Annual Symposium for Music Scholars in Finland. (Abstract book). Jyväskylä, FI: University of Jyväskylä. Retrieved from http://urn.fi/URN:ISBN:978-951-39-7043-7

Peltola, H.-R. (2016). Musiikin monet surut: kuulijoiden kokemuksia musiikin herättämistä tunteista. [Many forms of sadness: listeners' experiences of emotions evoked by music.] Musiikkiterapia, 31(1–2), 14–26.

E) Publications intended for the general public, linked to the applicant’s research

Peltola, H.-R. (2017, 4.10.2017). Taiteesta hyvinvointia, hyvinvoinnista taidetta? [About the arts and wellbeing] Tiedeblogi. Open access

G) Theses

Peltola, H.-R. (2016). Kind of blue: Emotions experienced in relation to nominally sad music. (Doctoral dissertation). Jyväskylä Studies in Humanities.