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Publications

Gernandt, E., Lange, E. B., & Merrill, J. (2025). What elevates music to a ‘favorite’? On the aesthetics of music from the perspective of musical taste. Empirical Studies of the Arts. doi:10.1177/02762374251365160.

Lange, E.B., Gernandt, E., & Merrill, J. (2025). Categorizing music in genre. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 1–12. https://doi.org/10.1111/nyas.15404

Gernandt, E., & Merrill, J. (2024). Schlager vs. Techno: Style-specific rationales for musical taste. Music & Science,7. https://doi.org/10.1177/20592043241268726

Conference Papers & Poster Presentations

Gernandt, E. & Merrill, J. (2025, September). Dimensionen des Musikgeschmacks: Ein stilspezifischer Ansatz. [Poster Präsentation]. 41. Jahrestagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Musikpsychologie (DGM), Freiburg, Deutschland

Gernandt, E. & Merrill, J. (2025, Juli). Dimensions of Musical Taste: Style-Specific Insights from Psychological, Sociological, and Music-Analytical Perspectives, 18th International Conference on Music Perception and Cognition (ICMPC18), Sao Paulo, Brasilien

Gernandt, E. & Merrill, J. (2025, März). Dimensions of stylistic preferences: Likes and dislikes of different musical styles. 67. Tagung experimentell arbeitender Psycholog*innen (TeaP), Frankfurt, Deutschland 

Gernandt, E. & Merrill, J. (2025, September). Dimensionen des Musikgeschmacks: Ein stilspezifischer Ansatz. [Poster Presentation]. 41st Annual Conference of the German Society for Music Psychology (DGM), Freiburg, Germany

Gernandt, E. & Merrill, J. (2025, July). Dimensions of Musical Taste: Style-SpecificInsights from Psychological, Sociological, and Music-Analytical Perspectives, 18th International Conference on Music Perception and Cognition (ICMPC18), Sao Paulo, Brasil

Gernandt, E. & Merrill, J. (2025, March). Dimensions of stylistic preferences: Likes and dislikes of different musical styles. 67th Conference of Experimental Psychologists (TeaP), Frankfurt, Germany 

Gernandt, E., Lange, E. B., & Merrill, J. (2024, September). Die Ästhetik des Musikgeschmacks. In F. C. Thiesen (Ed.), Digitalisierung in der Musikpsychologie: Abstract-Band zur Jahrestagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Musikpsychologie (pp. 89-90). Freiburg: German Society for Music Psychology e.V.

Gernandt, E., Lange, E. B., & Merrill, J. (2024, September). Die Ästhetik des Musikgeschmacks [Poster Presentation]. 40th Annual Conference of the German Society for Music Psychology (DGM), Munich, Germany

Gernandt, E., Lange, E. B., & Merrill, J. (2024, March). Inter-individual perspectives on musical styles: exploring favorite music descriptions. 66th Conference of Experimental Psychologists (TeaP), Regensburg, Germany 

Gernandt, E. & Merrill, J. (2023, September). Stilspezifische Unterschiede im Musikgeschmack: Gefallen und Ablehnungen verschiedener Musikstile [Poster Presentation]. 39th Annual Conference of the German Society for Music Psychology (DGM), Hannover, Germany

Gernandt, E. & Merrill, J. (2023, August). Schlager vs. Techno: Style-Specific Explanation Strategies of Musical Taste [Poster Presentation], 17th International Conference on Music Perception and Cognition and the 7th Conference of the Asia-Pacific Society for the Cognitive Sciences of Music (ICMPC17-APSCOM7), Tokyo, Japan

Gernandt, E., Eggert, J., Fiehn, H., Kudakov, N., & Wald-Fuhrmann, M. (2022, September). Covid-19-Version-Songs: Emergence, characteristics, and receptions of a new kind of musical contrafactum [Poster Presentation]. International Conference of Students of Systematic Musicology (Sysmus), Ghent, Belgium.

Gernandt, E. & Merrill, J. (2022, September). Schlager vs. Techno: Stilspezifische Begründungsstrategien [Poster Presentation]. 38th Annual Conference of the German Society for Music Psychology (DGM), Würzburg, Deutschland

Gernandt, E. & Merrill, J. (2021, October). Schlager vs. Techno: Style-specific justifications [Konferenzbeitrag], 2021 Autumn SEMPRE Conference: Engaging and Interacting with Education, Music and Psychology Research, Keele University, UK