Had a great talk today at the ISGMA conference about our project combining musicological and psychological approaches to understand how sound artifacts are perceived and experienced. 🔔🧠

Thanks to everyone who stopped by and engaged with the ideas! Great event hosted by @fwf-at.bsky.social

🔔 Part 7 in our #WASAD2025, @wasadorg.bsky.social, series:

@markusforamitti.bsky.social presented his poster: “Modulating Stress through Sound: The Effects of Historical Metallic Idiophones on Human Responses.”

🫠Part 5 in our #WASAD2025, @wasadorg.bsky.social, series:

@markusforamitti.bsky.social presented his talk “Regulating Collective Emotion Through Music: Diachronic Analysis of Stress, Sentiment, and Complexity in Lyrics (1973–2023)” in the Everyday life stress session.🙃

Great experience presenting at the WASAD Congress! I discussed how Natural Language Processing can advance stress research and how music functions as a cognitive artifact. @wasadorg.bsky.social

Grateful to collaborate with @mauriciojdmartins.bsky.social @clauslamm.bsky.social & Urs Nater

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🌍 We are excited for the 5th International World Association for Stress Related and Anxiety Disorders (WASAD) Congress in Munich! 🎉
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Check out our oral presentations below and don’t miss us at the poster session! 📊
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Then, @markusforamitti.bsky.social will follow up with a fascinating exploration of how music helps regulate collective emotion in his talk: "Regulating Collective Emotion Through Music: Diachronic Analysis of Stress, Sentiment, and Complexity in Lyrics (1973–2023)" 📝🎶

🎵 Part 7 in our #ICBM2025 series!

Markus Foramitti @markusforamitti.bsky.social presented his poster, "Sounds of the past – Effects of historical idiophones on psychological and physiological stress".

🎶 Part 3 in our #ICBM2025 series!

Markus Foramitti @markusforamitti.bsky.social‬ presented his poster, "Insights into Societal Mood Regulation Through Music - Diachronic Analysis of Stress, Sentiment, and Complexity in Popular Music Lyrics."

At the recent Kinderuni Day @univie.ac.at young explorers discovered what stress is, how it affects us, and how to fight it—with music and mindfulness!

Huge thanks to Dr. Stefanie Hirsch, @markusforamitti.bsky.social, and Rojan Amini-Nejad for leading this hands-on workshop in our stresslab!

Check out our new preprint with @mauriciojdmartins.bsky.social @clauslamm.bsky.social & Urs Markus Nater

We analyzed over 20,000 US Top 100 song lyrics (1973–2023) to trace how stress, sentiment, and lyrical complexity reflect changing psychological states over time.

Link to preprint: osf.io/c7a8r

Our Music & Health members, Anna Fekete and Markus Foramitti @markusforamitti.bsky.social presented at 2nd Meeting of the Vienna Network of Music and Cognition Research (ViNoMaRe). We enjoyed connecting with Vienna's vibrant interdisciplinary research community and engaging in inspiring exchanges!🎶

Beate-Maria Pomberger (@nhmwien.bsky.social) & Jörg Mühlhans, @markusforamitti.bsky.social explored how we perceive historical auditory stimuli. The sounds of excavated and replicated historical idiophones revealed differences in psychoacoustic properties.👂🔍 tinyurl.com/3twr3495
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Recently,a TV crew from Puls 4/JOYN visited our lab and shot scenes for a documentary about stress featuring our team members (@adreisoerner.bsky.social and @markusforamitti.bsky.social).The documentary is set to air next year, stay tuned! For now, here are some behind-the-scenes photos as a teaser.

🎙️ New Podcast!

@MarkusForamitti joined Franca Schönenberger on Komplex Einfach to explore how music can reduce stress. 🎶✨

🎧 Listen now:
Spotify: open.spotify.com/show/3kJlPhd...
Apple: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/k...
Share your thoughts! 💬 #Podcast #StressRelief #MusicTherapy

Excited to welcome Markus Foramitti, our newest PhD student, to the team!
Markus brings a blend of psychology, musicology, and biophysiology to his work on the fascinating interactions between stress and music.
#PhD #Research #MusicAndStress

Unser Teamkollege Markus Foramitti gab in "Aktuell nach 1" auf ORF 2 Einblicke in die positiven Auswirkungen von Musik auf die Gesundheit und innovative Methoden, diese zu erforschen. Hier geht's zur Sendung in der TVThek: tvthek.orf.at/profile/Aktu...