Papers, posters and presentation slides

Eisinger, M. (2025). Entwicklung der subjektiven Theorien über Musikalität bei Jugendlichen. Longitudinal Changes in Mindsets in Music during Adolescence. Beiträge empirischer Musikpädagogik, 17 (1), 1-22. https://doi.org/10.62563/bem.v17i1.256 [in German]

Eisinger, M., Weiser, M., Degé, F., Heye, A. & Müllensiefen, D. (2025). Übung macht den Meister: Growth Mindset für den Musikunterricht. In G. Brunner, D. Fiedler & S. Schmid (Hrsg.), Welchen Musikunterricht braucht die Sekundarstufe 1? Konzeptionelle und unterrichtsspezifische Beiträge zu einem zukunftsfähigen Musikunterricht (S. 128–141). OPUS-PHFR. [in German]

Eisinger, M., Wickmann, K., Müllensiefen, D., Heye, A., Degé, F., Kopiez, R. (2024). Übung macht den Meister. Die Wirksamkeit einer Growth-Mindset-Intervention für den Musikunterricht. Poster presented at AMPF conference, Berlin University of Arts [in German]

Voitova, T., Bernhofs, V., & Müllensiefen, D. (2025). The Influence of
Psychosocial Skills on the Development of Musical Abilities:
Cross-Sectional Results From Secondary School Pupils in Latvia. Gifted
Child Quarterly, 69 (2)
, 184-201. https://doi.org/10.1177/00169862241307660

Lin, H-R., Frieler, K., Müllensiefen, D., Kopiez, R. (2024) The role of gender and socioeconomic status in the development of musical abilities in adolescents. Presentation given at European Society Conference for the Cognitive Sciences of Music (ESCOM), York, UK.

Müllensiefen, D., Frieler, K., Pausch, V., Kopiez, R. (2024) Strengths, weaknesses, and alternatives of the musical g-factor as an explanatory model: Evidence form a large longitudinal study. Presentation given at European Society Conference for the Cognitive Sciences of Music (ESCOM), York, UK.

Voitova, T. (2024) The role of psychosocial factors in the development of musical listening abilities within adolescents with intensive music training in Latvia. Presentation given at European Society Conference for the Cognitive Sciences of Music (ESCOM), York, UK.

Eisinger, M., Fiedler, D. & Müllensiefen, D. (2023). Der Einfluss von subjektiven Theorien über Musikalität auf die Entwicklung der musikalischen Aktivität von Schüler*innen. In M. Göllner, J. Honnens, V. Krupp, L. Oravec & S. Schmid (Hrsg.), 44th Yearbook of the German Association for Research in Music Education. Münster: Waxmann. https://doi.org/10.31244/9783830997641.14 [in German]

Lippolis, M., Carraturo, G., Ferreri, L., Vuust, P., Müllensiefen, D., Matarrelli, B., & Brattico, E. (2023). Sensitivity to social reward in music behavior changes after music training in preadolescence. Advances in Cognitive Psychology, 19(4), 106-125. https://doi.org/10.5709/acp-0409-z

Anstee, L., & Müllensiefen, D., & Harrison, P. (2023). Handedness and musicality in secondary school students. Music Perception. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1525/MP.2023.40.5.373

Ruth, N., Tsigeman, E., Likhanov, M., Kovas, Y., & Müllensiefen, D. (2023). Personality and engagement with music: Results from network modeling in three adolescent samples. Psychology of Music. https://doi.org/10.1177/03057356221135346

Anstee, L., Müllensiefen, D.  & Harrison, P. (2022). Handedness and musical abilities in secondary school students. Poster presented at sempre 50th anniversary conference, University of London.

Müllensiefen, D., Elvers, P. & Frieler, K. (2022). Musical development during adolescence: Perceptual skills, cognitive resources, and musical training. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences. https://doi.org/10.1111/nyas.14911

Lippolis, M., Müllensiefen, D., Frieler, K., Matarrelli, B., Vuust, P., Cassibba, R., Brattico, E. (2022). Learning to play a musical instrument in the middle school is associated with superior audiovisual working memory and fluid intelligence: A cross-sectional behavioral study. Frontiers in Psychology, 13. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.982704

Müllensiefen, D., Frieler, K., Kopiez, R. (2022) The development of cognitive and musical abilities: Preliminary results of the LongGold Study. Talk presented at the 38th annual meeting of the German Society for Music Psychology, Würzburg, Germany.

Labonde, P., Müllensiefen, D. (2022) Determinanten und Verläufe musikalischer Begabung im Jugendalter. [Determinants and trajectories of musical talent in adolescence] Zeitschrift für Erziehungswissenschaft. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11618-022-01111-1

Pausch, V., Müllensiefen, D. & Kopiez, R. (2022). Musikalischer g-Faktor oder multiple Faktoren? Struktur und Leistungskennwerte der musikalischen Hörfähigkeit von Jugendlichen. [Musical g Factor or Multiple Factors? Structure and Norms of Musical Ability of Adolescents]. Jahrbuch Musikpsychologie, 30. https://doi.org/10.5964/jbdgm.89

Lin, H-R., Kopiez, R., Müllensiefen, D., Hasselhorn, J. (2022). Predicting academic achievement in music in secondary schools: The role of personality and self-theories of musicality. Psychology of Music. doi:10.1177/03057356211073479

Ruth, N. & Müllensiefen, D. (2021) Survival of musical activities. When do young people stop making music? PLoS ONE 16(11): e0259105. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0259105

Müllensiefen, D. (2021). Working Memory, Intelligence, Music Perception, and Musical Training: Development during Adolescence. Presentation given at The Neurosciences and Music VII, Aarhus, Denmark.

Lin, H.-R., Kopiez, R., & Müllensiefen, D. (2021). The Role of Musical Training and Gender in the Development of Musical Ability of Secondary School Children. Poster presented at joint ICMPC/ESCOM conference 2021, Sheffield, UK.

Leddy, H., Bertello, L., Fiedler, D., Jone Bartoli, A., Müllensiefen, D. (2021). Musical activity and its relationships with theory of intelligence, social and academic self-concept, and school engagement. Presentation given at joint ICMPC/ESCOM conference 2021, Sheffield, UK.

Leddy, H., Bertello, L., Fiedler, D., Jone Bartoli, A., & Müllensiefen, D. (2021). Musical and physical activities and their relationships with school engagement, social and academic self-concepts and theory of intelligence. Poster presented at the conference of the British Society for Psychology, Psychology of Education Section annual conference.

Labonde, P. & Müllensiefen, D. (2021). Determinants and trajectories of musically able individuals during adolescence. Poster presented at the annual conference of the German Society of Music Psychology. [In German]

Eisinger, M. (2021). Struktur Subjektiver Theorien über Musikalität und Validierung eines Messinstruments. [Structure of Theory of Musicality and Validation of a Measuring Instrument]. Jahrbuch Musikpsychologie, 30. https://doi.org/10.5964/jbdgm.93

Brandon, J. & Ruth, N. (2021). Music & Mind. Music and Adolescent Brain Development in the Classroom. Presentation given at the online Festival of Education, UK.

Müllensiefen, D. & Harrison, P. (2020). The impact of music on adolescents’ cognitive and socio-emotional learning. In J. Harrington, J. Beale, A. Fancourt & C. Lutz (Eds.), The ‘BrainCanDo’ Handbook of Teaching and Learning, (pp. 222-239). London: Routledge.

Ruth, N. & Müllensiefen, D. (2020). Associations between musical preferences and personality in female secondary school students. Psychomusicology, online first.

Pausch, V., Müllensiefen, D., & Kopiez, R. (2019). Structure and benchmarks of musical abilities during adolescence. First results from the longitudinal project LongGold. Talk presented at the 35th annual meeting of the German Society for Music Psychology, Eichstätt, Germany. [in German]

Lin, H.-R., Hasselhorn, J., Müllensiefen, D., & Kopiez, R. (2019). Predicting academic achievement in music from personality and theory of musicality. Poster presented at the 35th annual meeting of the German Society for Music Psychology, Eichstätt, Germany. [in German]

Eisinger, M., Fiedler, D. & Müllensiefen, D. (2018). The relationships of theory of intelligence and musicality with concurrent musical activities and training, academic and social self-concept as well as non-verbal intelligence and overall academic performance. Presentation given at joint ICMPC/ESCOM conference 2018, Graz, Austria.

Müllensiefen, D. (2018). The effects of Musical Activity on academic achievement: How to use music to develop a growth mindset. Presentation given at the annual BrainCanDo conference, Reading, UK.

Elvers, P. & Müllensiefen, D. (2018). Development of Musical Abilities. Presentation given at joint ICMPC/ESCOM conference 2018, Graz, Austria.

Müllensiefen, D. (2017). LongGold: A Longitudinal Study on the Development of Musical Abilities during Adolescence. Presentation given at the 33rd annual meeting of the German Society for Music Psychology.

Müllensiefen, D., Schapiro, R., Harrison, P., Bashir, Z., & Fancourt, A. (2017). Musical Abilities and Academic Achievement – What Makes the Difference? Poster presented at the ESCOM 2017 conference. Ghent, Belgium.

Müllensiefen, D., Harrison, P., Caprini, F., & Fancourt, A. (2015). Investigating the importance of self-theories of intelligence and musicality for students’ academic and musical achievement. Frontiers in Psychology, 6:1702. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2015.01702