Dr. Siu-Lan Tan is the James AB Stone College Professor (for 2018-2025) and expresses gratitude to generous donors of this Endowed Chair supporting my teaching, scholarship, publications, and travel to conferences.
Books
Tan, S.-L., Pfordresher, P., & Harré, R. (2018). Psychology of music: From sound to significance (2nd ed). London: Routledge.
Tan, S.-L., Cohen, A. J., Lipscomb, S. D., & Kendall, R. A. (2013). The psychology of music in multimedia. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press.
Tan, S.-L., Pfordresher, P., & Harré, R. (2010, 2013). Psychology of music: From sound to significance (1st ed). London: Routledge. [For 2nd Edition, please see above]
Deaville, J., Tan, S.-L., & Rodman, R. (forthcoming: Jan/Feb 2021). The Oxford Handbook of Music and Advertising. New York: Oxford University Press.
Journal Articles
Tan, S.-L. (2019). Investigating sound design in film: Commentary on Kock and Louven. Empirical Musicology Review, 13 (3-4), 149-154.
Tan, S.-L., Spackman, M. P., & Wakefield, E. M. (2017). Effects of diegetic and non-diegetic music on viewers’ interpretations of a film scene. Music Perception, 34 (5), 605-623.
Tan, S.-L. (2016). Keynote Address at Music and the Moving Image 2015: ‘The Psychology of Film Music: Framing Intuition’. Music and the Moving Image, 9 (2), 23-38. Chicago: University of Illinois Press.
Athanasopoulos, G., Tan, S.-L., & Moran, N. (2015). The influence of literacy on representation of time in musical stimuli: An exploratory cross-cultural study in Britain, Japan, and Papua New Guinea. Psychology of Music, 44 (5), 1126-1144
Tan, S.-L. (2013). Visual representations of music in three cultures. Empirical Musicology Review, vol. 8. (3-4), 200-203. Special issue on Musical Shape.
Tan, S.-L., Baxa, J. P., & Spackman, M. P. (2010). Effects of built-in audio versus unrelated background music on performance in an adventure role-playing game. International Journal of Gaming and Computer-Mediated Simulations, 2 (3), 1-23
Tan, S.-L., Wakefield, E. M., & Jeffries, W. P. (2009). Musically untrained college students’ interpretations of musical notation: sound, silence, loudness, duration, and temporal order. Psychology of Music, 37 (1), 5-24.
Tan, S.-L., & Spackman, M. P., & Wakefield, E. M. (2008). Effects of diegetic and non-diegetic presentation of film music on viewers’ interpretation of film narrative. Conference Proceedings for the 2008 International Conference of Music Perception and Cognition, pp 588-593, Hokkaido University, Japan. Australia: Causal Productions.
Tan, S.-L., Spackman, M. P., & Bezdek, M. A. (2007). Viewers’ interpretations of film characters’ emotions: Effects of presenting music before or after a character is shown. Music Perception, 25 (2), 135-152.
Tan, S.-L., Spackman, M. P., & Peaslee, C. L. (2006). Effects of repeated exposure on liking and judgments of thematic unity of patchwork and intact compositions. Music Perception. 23 (5), 407-421.
Tan, S.-L., & Spackman, M. P. (2005). Listeners’ judgments of the musical unity of structurally altered and intact musical compositions. Psychology of Music. 33 (2),133-153.
Tan, S.-L., & Kelly, M. E. (2004). Graphic representations of short musical compositions. Psychology of Music, 32 (2), 191-212.
Tan, S.-L. (2002). Beginners’ intuitions about musical notation. College Music Symposium, 42, 131-141.
Tan, S.-L., & Bartlett, M. E. (2000, July). Visual representations of music: Abstract and pictorial modes. International Journal of Psychology, 35, 309.
Tan, S.-L., & Moghaddam, F. M. (1995). Reflexive positioning and culture. Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour, 25, pp. 387-401.
Calvert, S.-L., & Tan, S. L. (1994). Impact of virtual reality on young adults’ physiological arousal and aggressive thoughts. Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology, 15, 125-139.
Book Chapters
Tan, S.-L., Rodman, R., & Deaville, J. (2021). Music and advertising: Production, text, and reception. In J. Deaville, S.-L. Tan, & R. Rodman (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Music and Advertising (pp. 1-21). New York: Oxford University Press.
Tan, S.-L (2021). Reception: Empirical approaches to the study of music and advertising. (Section preface). In J. Deaville, S.-L. Tan, & R. Rodman (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Music and Advertising (pp. 645-650). New York: Oxford University Press.
Tan, S.-L. (In prep.). Composing the image, composing the story: How music and sound shape viewers’ attention and engagement. In Cenciarello, C. (Ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Cinematic Listening. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Tan, S.-L. (2017). From intuition to evidence: The experimental psychology of film music. In M. Mera, R. A. Sadoff, & B. Winters (Eds.), The Routledge Companion to Screen Music and Sound (pp. 517-530). New York: Routledge.
Tan, S.-L. (2017). Scene and heard: The role of music in shaping interpretations of film. In R. Ashley & R. Timmers (Eds.), The Routledge Companion to Music Cognition (pp. 363-376). New York: Routledge.
Tan, S.-L., Cohen, A. J., Lipscomb, S. D., & Kendall, R. A. (2013). Future research directions for music and sound in multimedia. The psychology of music in multimedia. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Grimshaw, M., Tan, S.-L., & Lipscomb, S. D. (2013). Playing with sounds: The role of sound and music in video games. In Tan, S. L., Cohen, A. J., Lipscomb, S. D., & Kendall, R. A. (eds.). The psychology of music in multimedia. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Cohen, A. J., Lipscomb, S. D., Tan, S.-L., & Kendall, R. A. (2013). The psychology of music in multimedia. In Tan, S. L., Cohen, A. J. Lipscomb, S. D., & Kendall, R. A. (eds.). The psychology of music in multimedia. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Tan, S.-L., Baxa, J., & Spackman, M. P. (2012). Effects of built-in audio versus unrelated background music on performance in an adventure role-playing game. In Ferdig, R. E. & Freitas, S. (Eds.) Interdisciplinary advancements in gaming, simulations and virtual environments: Emerging trends, (pp. 142-164). Hershey, PA: IGI Global.
Tan, S.-L. & Moghaddam, F. M. (1999). Positioning in inter-group relations. In R. Harré & L. van Langenhove (Eds.), Positioning theory: Moral contexts for intentional actions, (pp. 178-193). Oxford, England: Blackwell.
Tan, S.-L. & Moghaddam, F. M. (1999). Reflexive positioning: Culture and private discourse. In R. Harré & L. van Langenhove (Eds.), Positioning theory: Moral contexts for intentional actions, (pp. 74-86). Oxford, England: Blackwell.
Calvert, S.-L., & Tan, S. L. (1996). Impact of virtual reality on young adults’ physiological arousal and aggressive thoughts: Interaction versus observation. In P. M. Greenfield & R. R. Cocking (Eds.), Interacting with video, (pp. 67-81). Norwood: Ablex.
Book Reviews
Tan, S. L. (2008). Review of Listen to Their Voices: Research and Practice in Early Childhood Music (edited by Katharine Smithrim and Rena Upitis, 2007). Psychomusicology: Music, Mind, and Brain. 20 (1), 190-196.
Articles on Teaching
Grossman, R. W., Kim, S., Tan, S.-L., & Ford, T. (March, 2008). Stereotype threat and recommendations for overcoming it: A teaching case study. [The National Center for Case Study Teaching in Science is an NSF-funded, peer-reviewed website. The case can be found by CLICKING HERE
