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Books

Daniel Levitin

	This Is Your Brain on Music: The Science of a Human Obsession
	The World in Six Songs: How the Musical Brain Created Human Nature

David Buss

	The Evolution of Desire
	Evolutionary Psychology: The New Science of the Mind
	The Handbook of Evolutionary Psychology
	The Dangerous Passion: Why Jealousy is as Necessary as Love or Sex
	The Murderer Next Door: Why the Mind is Designed to Kill
	Personality Psychology: Domains of Knowledge About Human Nature

Same Gosling

Snoop: What Your Stuff Says About You

John McArdle

	Contemporary Psychometrics
	Human Cognitive Abilities in Theory and Practice

Nettle Daniel

	Happiness: The Science Behind Your Smile
	Personality: What Makes You the Way You Are

Brent Roberts

Personality Psychology in the Workplace

Press Mentions

Jason Rentfrow on Sound Opinions Podcast

"Scholars speak on influence of Beatles," The Stanford Daily, February 22 2008

"A Head for Music," Reverb Magazine, January 2008

"A ROCK N' ROLL STATE OF MIND," Innovation Canada, November-December 2007

"Mozart, Madonna and the mind," The Herald, October 16 2007

"Science and Song, Oregon Quaterly," Summer 2007

"In Music, Others' Tastes May Help Shape Your Own," New York Times

"Focus: What Your Taste In Music Says About You," The London Times

"The Race To Create A 'Smart' Google," CNN

"Unintentional Music Sharing," Science

“Researchers connect music, personalities,” The Daily Tar Heal, March, 2008

Published Research

Vines, B. W., Krumhansl, C. L., Wanderley, M. M., & Levitin, D. J. (2006). Cross-Modal Interactions in the Perception of Musical Performance. Cognition, 101, 80-113.

Levitin, D. J. (2006). Em busca da mente musical. B. S. Ilari [Ed.], Em busca da mente musical: Ensaios sobre os processos cognitivos em música - da percepção à produção, pp. 23-44. Curitaba, Brazil: Editora UFPR.

Menon, V. and Levitin, D. J. (2005). The rewards of music listening: Response and physiological connectivity of themesolimbic system. NeuroImage, 28(1), 175-184.

Vines, B. W., Krumhansl, C. L., Wanderley, M. M., Dalca, I., & Levitin, D. J. (2005). Dimensions of emotion in expressive musical performance. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 1060(27), 462-466.

Levitin, D. J. and Rogers, S. E. (2005). Absolute pitch: Perception, coding, and controversies. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 9(1), 26-33.

Rentfrow, P. J., & Gosling, S. D. (2007). The content and validity of stereotypes about fans of 14 music genres. Psychology of Music, 35, 306-326.

Rentfrow, P. J., & Gosling, S. D. (2006). Message in a ballad: The role of music preferences in interpersonal perception. Psychological Science, 17, 236-242.

Rentfrow, P. J., & Gosling, S. D. (2003). The do-re-mi's of everyday life: The structure and personality correlates of music preferences. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 84, 1236-1256.