Collaboration, Cognitive Effort, and Self-Reference in United Kingdom Top 5 Pop Music Lyrics 1960-2015
This research investigated associations between the lyrics of every song to have reached the weekly U.K. Top 5 singles chart from 1960 to 2015 and the number of people responsible for recording each song. Following computerized content analysis of the lyrics of the 4,534 unique songs, the results sh...
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| description | This research investigated associations between the lyrics of every song to have reached the weekly U.K. Top 5 singles chart from 1960 to 2015 and the number of people responsible for recording each song. Following computerized content analysis of the lyrics of the 4,534 unique songs, the results showed that the number of musicians involved was negatively related to use of cognitive terms, consistent with previous research on social loafing, and was also negatively related to instances of self-reference and use of language concerning social interaction, arguably in reflection of the inherent constraints on such that arise from collaborating with others. |
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| spelling | curtin-20.500.11937-748752024-05-30T08:32:01Z Collaboration, Cognitive Effort, and Self-Reference in United Kingdom Top 5 Pop Music Lyrics 1960-2015 Krause, A. North, Adrian This research investigated associations between the lyrics of every song to have reached the weekly U.K. Top 5 singles chart from 1960 to 2015 and the number of people responsible for recording each song. Following computerized content analysis of the lyrics of the 4,534 unique songs, the results showed that the number of musicians involved was negatively related to use of cognitive terms, consistent with previous research on social loafing, and was also negatively related to instances of self-reference and use of language concerning social interaction, arguably in reflection of the inherent constraints on such that arise from collaborating with others. 2019 Journal Article http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/74875 10.1037/aca0000214 fulltext |
| spellingShingle | Krause, A. North, Adrian Collaboration, Cognitive Effort, and Self-Reference in United Kingdom Top 5 Pop Music Lyrics 1960-2015 |
| title | Collaboration, Cognitive Effort, and Self-Reference in United Kingdom Top 5 Pop Music Lyrics 1960-2015 |
| title_full | Collaboration, Cognitive Effort, and Self-Reference in United Kingdom Top 5 Pop Music Lyrics 1960-2015 |
| title_fullStr | Collaboration, Cognitive Effort, and Self-Reference in United Kingdom Top 5 Pop Music Lyrics 1960-2015 |
| title_full_unstemmed | Collaboration, Cognitive Effort, and Self-Reference in United Kingdom Top 5 Pop Music Lyrics 1960-2015 |
| title_short | Collaboration, Cognitive Effort, and Self-Reference in United Kingdom Top 5 Pop Music Lyrics 1960-2015 |
| title_sort | collaboration, cognitive effort, and self-reference in united kingdom top 5 pop music lyrics 1960-2015 |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/74875 |