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| Title |
Music training and empathy positively impact adults’ sensitivity to infant distress
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| Published in |
Frontiers in Psychology, December 2014
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| DOI | 10.3389/fpsyg.2014.01440 |
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| Authors |
Christine E. Parsons, Katherine S. Young, Else-Marie E. Jegindø, Peter Vuust, Alan Stein, Morten L. Kringelbach |
| Abstract |
Crying is the most powerful auditory signal of infant need. Adults' ability to perceive and respond to crying is important for infant survival and in the provision of care. This study investigated a number of listener variables that might impact on adults' perception of infant cry distress, namely parental status, musical training, and empathy. Sensitivity to infant distress was tested using a previously validated task, which experimentally manipulated distress by varying the pitch of infant cries. This task required that participants discriminate between pitch differences and interpret these as differences in infant distress. Parents with musical training showed a significant advantage on this task when compared with parents without. The extent of the advantage was correlated with the amount of self-reported musical training. For non-parents, individual differences in empathy were associated with task performance, with higher empathy scores corresponding to greater sensitivity to infant distress. We suggest that sensitivity to infant distress can be impacted by a number of listener variables, and may be amenable to training. |
X Demographics
The data shown below were collected from the profiles of 26 X users who shared this research output. Click here to find out more about how the information was compiled.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United Kingdom | 7 | 27% |
| United States | 3 | 12% |
| Canada | 1 | 4% |
| Switzerland | 1 | 4% |
| India | 1 | 4% |
| Unknown | 13 | 50% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 19 | 73% |
| Scientists | 5 | 19% |
| Practitioners (doctors, other healthcare professionals) | 1 | 4% |
| Science communicators (journalists, bloggers, editors) | 1 | 4% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 96 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Philippines | 1 | 1% |
| Unknown | 95 | 99% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Researcher | 18 | 19% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 13 | 14% |
| Student > Master | 13 | 14% |
| Student > Doctoral Student | 7 | 7% |
| Student > Postgraduate | 7 | 7% |
| Other | 18 | 19% |
| Unknown | 20 | 21% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Psychology | 50 | 52% |
| Neuroscience | 5 | 5% |
| Medicine and Dentistry | 4 | 4% |
| Social Sciences | 3 | 3% |
| Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology | 2 | 2% |
| Other | 10 | 10% |
| Unknown | 22 | 23% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 42. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 04 June 2021.
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#37
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