Experimental evidence of the roles of music choice, social context, and listener personality in emotional reactions to music

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Current Emotion Research in Music Psychology (2015, background): “Listening to music with a close friend rather than listening alone is associated with more intense and positive emotional responses, whereas pieces self-selected by participants give rise to more intense emotional experiences than unfamiliar pieces do (Liljeström et al., 2013).”
Personal and situational influences on the functions of music listening (2018, background): “Studies that tackle this question have consistently found that nowadays, music listening takes place predominantly at home, while driving, or while using public transport (Greasley & Lamont, 2011; Krause, North, & Hewitt, 2014b; North et al., 2004). With regard to the influence of location on the fu”
Music-listening in everyday life: Devices and choice (2015, background): “…that people used MP3 players to maintain their well-being, consciously exerting a great degree of control to make the situation more tolerable; and Liljeström, Juslin, and Västfjäll (2012) argued that self-selected music was conducive to experiencing positive emotions because it offered a greater…”