Abbigail Marie Fleckenstein

• Julia Vigl, Joshua S. Bamford, Abbigail Marie Fleckenstein & Suvi Saarikallio (2025). Music across the love-span: a mixed methods study into the use of music in romantic relationships. Open Research Europe. 4. doi: 10.12688/openreseurope.19016.2. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Abbigail Marie Fleckenstein, Jonna Katariina Vuoskoski & Nicola Dibben (2024). Understanding Musical Beauty. Empirical Studies of the Arts. ISSN 0276-2374. doi: 10.1177/02762374241253771. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv

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• Hugh Alexander von Arnim, Abbigail Marie Fleckenstein & Anna-Maria Christodoulou (2025). SysMus25 Conference Proceedings. Zenodo. 164 s. doi: 10.5281/zenodo.17632991. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Abbigail Marie Fleckenstein, Hugh Alexander von Arnim & Anna-Maria Christodoulou (2025). SysMus25 Book of Abstracts. Zenodo. 165 s. doi: 10.5281/zenodo.17531650. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv

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• Abbigail Marie Fleckenstein, Mariola Paruzel-Czachura, Katarzyna Pypno-Blajda, Henna-Riikka Peltola & Jonna Katariina Vuoskoski (2026). Moral Echoes: Do Humanness and Morality Affect Emotional and Aesthetic Responses to Music. doi: 10.5281/zenodo.21416409. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  Background: When listening to novel music, extramusical information about the musician may shape listeners’ evaluations. Research outside music suggests that experiences of being moved, empathy, and aesthetic appreciation can be modulated by appraisals of an agent’s morality (Seibt et al., 2017; Singer et al., 2006). In music, such modulations may depend on whether listeners perceive a human agent is present (i.e., human or AI-generated music). Findings on AI-generated music are inconsistent: some studies indicate a bias against AI music (Ansani et al., 2025), whereas others report mixed results (Shank et al., 2023). Aims: The experiment evaluated whether perceived Morality (Moral, Immoral, Neutral) and perceived Humanness (Human vs. AI-model) and influence listeners’ emotional and aesthetic responses to unfamiliar vocal music. Methods: This online experiment used a 2 (Humanness: Human vs. AI-model) × 2 (Vocalist Sex: Male vs. Female) × 3 (Morality: Moral, Immoral, Neutral) mixed factorial design. Participants (N = 400) were randomly assigned to one of four groups. Each participant read three behavioral descriptions (Moral, Immoral, Neutral) and listened to three unfamiliar songs pseudo-randomly paired with the descriptions. Responses were measured using the GEMS-9 (Zentner et al., 2008) plus items assessing feeling Moved, Connected, Beauty, Liking, and Creativity. Results: Linear mixed-effects models showed significant main effects of Morality, with Immoral descriptions consistently yielding lower (i.e., more negative) ratings for nearly all dependent variables with the exception of Unease. There was no main effect of Humanness and no Morality × Humanness interaction. Exploratory analyses indicated that higher Trait Empathy was associated with stronger emotional and aesthetic responses overall, except for the Unease factor. Conclusions: Present findings indicate that perceived immoral behavior, regardless of a perceived human creator, negatively affected listeners’ ratings of positive-valence emotional and aesthetic appraisals of unfamiliar music, consistent with the view that music listening is grounded in socio- cognitive evaluations of the agent behind the work.

• Matthew Davidson & Abbigail Marie Fleckenstein (2026). Thinking Norway with Matthew Davidson - debut broadcast 31 August 2026. [Radio]. Drammen Unlimited Radio. doi: https:/open.spotify.com/episode/2PDbEAg8Gaxq7eHyLnMMgb?si=NndYfzPWSCyC-uc18Zcq7A&utm_source=copy-link. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Abbigail Marie Fleckenstein (2025). Message from the Chair. I Abbigail Marie Fleckenstein, Hugh Alexander von Arnim & Anna-Maria Christodoulou (Red.), SysMus25 Book of Abstracts. Zenodo. s. 5–5. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Abbigail Marie Fleckenstein, Hugh Alexander von Arnim & Anna-Maria Christodoulou (2025). Editorial Note. I Hugh Alexander von Arnim, Abbigail Marie Fleckenstein & Anna-Maria Christodoulou (Red.), SysMus25 Conference Proceedings. Zenodo. s. 5–5. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Abbigail Marie Fleckenstein, Jonna Katariina Vuoskoski & Suvi Saarikallio (2024). Being Musically Moved. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Abbigail Marie Fleckenstein, Jonna Katariina Vuoskoski & Suvi Saarikallio (2024). Being Musically Moved. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Abbigail Marie Fleckenstein (2023). Understanding Musical Beauty. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv

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