Prof. John Sloboda FBA, MA (Oxon.) PhD (Lond.), C.Psychol, FBPsS,ATCL, LTCL, HonRCM.

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John Sloboda is Emeritus Professor at Keele from October 2008. He has been a member of the School of Psychology since 1974 and was Director of its Unit for the Study of Musical Skill and Development founded in 1991.

John Sloboda is internationally known for his work on the psychology of music. He is a Fellow of the British Psychological Society, and has been President of both the Psychology and General Sections of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, as well as President of the European Society for the Cognitive Sciences of Music, where he serves on the editorial board of it's journal Musicae Scientiae.

He was recipient of the 1998 British Psychological Society’s Presidents Award for Distinguished Contributions to Psychological Knowledge, and in 2004 was elected to Fellowship of the British Academy.

John Sloboda is Honorary Research Fellow in the School of Politics, International Relations and the Environment (SPIRE).  He is Honorary Professor of Music and of Politics and International Relations at Royla Holloway University of London.  He is Research Professor at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, London.  He is also a member of the Senior Management Group of  Oxford Research Group and Co-founder of  the Iraq Body Count Project.

Psychology of Music:

  •    Musical ability: beliefs about the causes of unmusicality and tone deafness.
  •    Expression and emotion in performance and perception.  The experience of music.
  •    Relationships between live audiences and creative artists.

 

Psychological aspects of international security: 

  •     Theory and methodology of measuring war’s effects on civilian populations
  •     Perceptions of security and the ‘war on terror’;
  •     the anti-war movement
  • Van Goethem, A.  & Sloboda, J. A.  (2011)  The functions of music for affect regulation.  Musicae Scientiae, 15.2, 208-228
  • Sloboda, J. A. (2011)  Music and its meaning, how has the last 30 years of music psychology research progressed our knowledge?  Interdisciplinary Studies in Musicology, 10, 31-46.
  • Bergh, A. & Sloboda, J.A. (2010) Music and conflict transformation: a review.    Music and Arts in Action, 2.2,  2-18.
  • Juslin, P.N. & Sloboda, J. A. (Eds.) (2009)  Handbook of Music and Emotion.  Oxford University Press.
  • Abbott, C., Rogers, P. & Sloboda, J.A. (2007)  Beyond Terror: the Truth about the Real Threats to Our World.  London: Rider
  • Psychology for Musicians: Understanding and Acquiring the Skills.  With Andreas C Lehmann, and Robert W. Woody.  Oxford University Press, January 2007.  
  • Sloboda, J. A, (2004)  Exploring the Musical Mind.  Oxford: Oxford University Press. 

Recent papers, journal articles and book chapters include:

  • Van Zijl., A. & Sloboda, J. A. (2010)  Performers’ experienced emotions in the construction of expressive musical performance: an exploratory investigation.  Psychology of Music, 39.2, 196-219
  • Hicks, M. J.  Spagat, M.  Dardagan, H., Guerrero-Serdan, A. G., & Sloboda, J. A.    ‘Iraqi civilian mortality from weapons and methods of armed violence during the Iraq conflict, 2003-2006’   New England Journal of Medicine.  April 16 2010.  360.  1585-1588.
  • Wise,K.J. & Sloboda, J. A. (2008)  Establishing an empirical profile of self-defined “tone deafness”: Perception, singing performance, and self-assessment.   Musicae Scientiae, 12.1.
  • Sloboda, J. A., Lamont, A. & Greasley, A. E.  (2008)  Choosing to hear music:  motivation, process and affect.  In S. Hallam, I. Cross, & M. Thaut (Eds.)  The Oxford Handbook of Music Psychology.   Oxford: Oxford University Press.
  • Whaley, J,. Sloboda, J. A, & Gabrielsson, A. (2008)  Peak experiences in music.  .  In S. Hallam, I. Cross, & M. Thaut (Eds.)  The Oxford Handbook of Music Psychology.   Oxford: Oxford University Press. 
  • Wise, K.J., Sloboda, J. A., & Peretz, I. (2007)  Progress in understanding tone deafness.   British Academy Review, 10,  52-55.  I153
  • Sloboda, J.A. & Doherty, B. (2007)  The psychology of anti-war activism: 1: The British Anti-war movement 1956-2006.  In R. Roberts. (Ed.) Just War: Psychology and Terrorism.  Ross on Wye: PCCS Books.
  • Sloboda, J.A. & Doherty, B. (2007)  The psychology of anti-war activism: 2: Building and enduring anti-war movement.  In R. Roberts. (Ed.) Just War: Psychology and Terrorism.  Ross on Wye: PCCS Books.
  • Harper, D., Roberts, R, & Sloboda, J.A,(2007)  A psychology for peace?.  In R. Roberts. (Ed.) Just War: Psychology and Terrorism.  Ross on Wye: PCCS Books.
  • Sloboda, J. A. (2004)  Assessing music psychology research: values, priorities, and outcomes.   In J. A. Sloboda.  Exploring the Musical Mind:  Cognition, emotion, ability, function.  Oxford Oxford University  Press.
  • Steinbeis, N., Koelsch, S., & Sloboda, J. A.  (2006)  The Role of Harmonic Expectancy Violations in Musical Emotions: Evidence from Subjective, Physiological, and Neural Responses.  Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience. 18:1380-1393
  • Sloboda, J. A., Wise, K.J., & Peretz, I.  (2005)  Quantifying Tone Deafness in the General Population.  Annals of the New York Academy of Science. 1060, 255-261.