Publications

(* = most representative publications)

BOOKS

*Greenberg, D. M. (expected, 2022). The Song is You: How Psychological Science Explains the Musical Mind. Oxford University Press.

PEER-REVIEWED ARTICLES

  1. Chan, W., McCrae, R. R., Rogers, D. L., Weimer, A. A., Greenberg, D. M., Terracciano, A. (2011). Rater wealth predicts perceptions of outgroup competence. Journal of Research in Personality, 45(6), 597-603. 
  2. Greenberg, D. M., Baron-Cohen, S., Stillwell, D. J., Kosinski, M., & Rentfrow, P. J. (2015). Musical preferences are linked to cognitive styles. PLoS ONE. 10(7), e01311. 
  3. Greenberg, D. M., Müllensiefen, D., Lamb, M. E., & Rentfrow, P. J. (2015). Personality predicts musical sophistication. Journal of Research in Personality, 58, 154-158. 
  4. Greenberg, D. M., Rentfrow, P. J., & Baron-Cohen, S. (2015). Can music increase empathy? Interpreting musical experience through the Empathizing-Systemizing (E-S) theory: Implications for autism. Empirical Musicology Review, 10(1), 80-95. 
  5. Greenberg, D. M., & Rentfrow, P. J. (2015). Rules of engagement: The structure of musical engagement and its personality underpinnings. In Proceedings of the Ninth Triennial Conferences of the European Society for the Cognitive Sciences of Music. Manchester, United Kingdom. 
  6. Greenberg, D. M. (2015). Additional Considerations to the Model of Musical Empathic Engagement: Empathy Facets, Preferences, and Openness. Comment on “Music, Empathy, and Cultural Understanding” by E. Clarke et al. Physics of Life Reviews. 
  7. *Greenberg, D. M., Kosinski, M.C, Stillwell, D. J., Monteiro, B. L., Levitin, D. J., & Rentfrow, P. J. (2016). The song is you: Preferences for musical attribute dimensions reflect personality. Social Psychological and Personality Science, 7(6), 597-605. 
  8. *Greenberg, D. M. & Rentfrow, P. J. (2017). Music and big data: A new frontier. Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences, 18, 50-56. 
  9. Greenberg, D. M., Kolasi, J., Hegsted, C. P., Berkowitz, Y., & Jurist, E. L. (2017). Mentalized Affectivity: A new model and assessment of emotion regulation. PLoS ONE, 12(10), e0185264. 
  10. Nave, G., Minxha, J., Greenberg, D. M., Kosinski, M., Stillwell, D. J., Rentfrow, P. J. (2018). Musical preferences predict personality: Evidence from active listening and Facebook likes. Psychological Science, 29(7), 1145-1158. 
  11. Fricke, K. R., Greenberg, D. M., Rentfrow, P. J., & Herzberg, P. Y. (2018). Computer-based music feature analysis mirrors human perception and can be used to measure music preference. Journal of Research in Personality, 75, 94-102.
  12. Greenberg, D. M., Baron-Cohen, S., Rosenberg, N.S, Fonagy, P., & Rentfrow, P. J. (2018). Elevated empathy in adults following childhood trauma. PLoS ONE, 3(10): e0203886.
  13. *Greenberg, D. M., Warrier, V., Allison, C., & Baron-Cohen, S. (2018). Testing the Empathizing-Systemizing theory of sex differences and the Extreme Male Brain theory of autism in half a million people. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 1811032115. 
  14. Greenberg, D. M., Warrier, V., Allison, C., & Baron-Cohen, S. (2019). Reply to Perrykkad and Hohwy: When big data are the answer. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences,116(28), 13740-13741. 
  15. Fricke, K. R., Greenberg, D. M., Rentfrow, P. J., & Herzberg, P. Y. (2019). Measuring musical preferences from listening behavior: Data from one million people and 200,000 songs. Psychology of Music, 1-11. 
  16. Shilton, T., Moore, T., Greenberg, D. M., DiDomenico, G., Brown, L., White, L., … & Barzilay, R. (2020). Decomposing Resilience and its Relationship with Mental Health during COVID-19 Pandemic Outbreak.Neuropsychopharmacology, 167-167. 
  17. *Anderson, I., Gil, S., Gibson, C., Shapiro, W., Wolf, S., Semerci, O., & Greenberg, D. M. (2020).“Just the Way You Are”: Linking Music Listening on Spotify and Personality. Social Psychological and Personality Science, 12(4), 561–572. 
  18. *Greenberg, D. M., Matz, S., Schwartz, H. A., & Fricke, K. R. (2020). The self-congruity effect of music. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology.121(1), 137–150. 
  19. Warrier, V., Greenberg, D. M., Weir, E., Buckingham, C., Smith, P., Lai, M-C., Allison, C., & Baron-Cohen, S. (2020). Elevated autism diagnoses and autistic traits in transgender individuals: a study of over 600,000 individuals. Nature Communications. 
  20. Barzily, R., Moore, T., Greenberg, D. M., DiDomenico, G., Brown, L., White, L., Gur, R., & Gur, R. (2020) Resilience, COVID-19-related stress, anxiety and depression during the pandemic in a large population enriched for healthcare providers. Translational Psychiatry. 
  21. Granot, R., Spitz, D., Cherki, B., Loui, P., Timmers, R., Schaefer, R., … & Greenberg, D. M., & Israel, S. (2021). “Help! I Need Somebody”: Music as a Global Resource for Obtaining Wellbeing Goals in Times of Crisis. Frontiers in Psychology. 
  22. Wortzel, J. D., DiDomenico, G. E., Visoki, E., South, E., Tam, V., Wiebe, D. J., … & Barzilay, R. (2021). Association Between Urban Greenspace and Mental Wellbeing During the COVID-19 Pandemic in a US Cohort.Frontiers in Sustainable Cities,3, 56. 
  23. Rosenberg N., Greenberg, D. M., & Lamb, M. E. (2021). Musical paths to posttraumatic resilience: The role of gender, personality, and music listening styles after childhood trauma. Music & Science. 
  24. Greenberg, D. M., Bodner, E., Shrira, A., & Fricke K. R. (2021). Decreasing stress through a spatial audio and immersive 3D environment: A pilot study with implications for clinical and medical settings. Music & Science. 
  25. Rinaldi, T., Castelli, I., Greco, A., Greenberg, D. M., Jurist, E., Valle, A., & Marchetti, A. (2021). The Mentalized Affectivity Scale (MAS): Development and validation of the Italian version.PLoS ONE,16(4), e0249272. 
  26. Basiński, K., Zdun-Ryżewska, A., Greenberg, D. M., & Majkowicz, M. (2021). Preferred musical attribute dimensions underlie individual differences in music-induced analgesia.Scientific Reports,11(1), 1-8. 
  27. Hertz-Palmor, N., Moore, T. M., Gothelf, D., DiDomenico, G. E., Dekel, I., Greenberg, D. M., … & Barzilay, R. (2021). Association among income loss, financial strain and depressive symptoms during COVID-19: evidence from two longitudinal studies.Journal of Affective Disorders,291, 1-8. 
  28. *Greenberg, D. M., Decety, J., & Gordon, I. (2021). The social neuroscience of music: Understanding the social brain through human song. American Psychologist. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1037/amp0000819. 
  29. Greenberg, D. M., Rudenstine, S., Alaluf, R., Perez Sosa, M., & Jurist, E. L. (2021). Development and validation of the Brief-Mentalized Affectivity Scale: Evidence from cross-sectional online data and an urban community-based mental health clinic. Journal of Clinical Psychology. 
  30. Kanagala, S. C., Schäfer, T., Greenberg, D. M., & Gabińska, A. (2021). Depression symptoms correlate with music use: Investigating the role of trait affect, musical ability, and music preferences. Music & Science, 4, 20592043211057217. 
  31. Brown, L. A., Hamlett, G. E., Zhu, Y., Wiley, J. F., Moore, T. M., DiDomenico, G. E., Visoki, E., Greenberg, D. M.… & Barzilay, R. (2022). Worry about COVID‐19 as a predictor of future insomnia. Journal of Sleep Research, e13564. 
  32. *Greenberg, D. M., Wride, S. J., Snowden, D. A., Spathis, D., Potter, J., & Rentfrow, P. J. (2022). Universals and variations in musical preferences: A study of preferential reactions to Western music in 53 countries. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 122(2), 286–309. 
  33. Shalev, I., Warrier, V., Greenberg, D. M., Smith, P., Allison, C., Baron‐Cohen, S., … & Uzefovsky, F. (2022). Reexamining empathy in autism: Empathic disequilibrium as a novel predictor of autism diagnosis and autistic traits.Autism Research. 
  34. Baron-Cohen, S., Radecki, M. A., Greenberg, D. M., Warrier, V., Holt, R. J., & Allison, C. (2022). Sex differences in theory of mind: The on-average female advantage on the Reading the Mind in the Eyes Test. Developmental medicine and child neurology, 64(12), 1440-1441.
  35. *Greenberg, D. M., Warrier, V., Abu-Akel, A., Allison, C., Gajos, K. Z., Reinecke, K., Rentforw, P. J., Radecki, M., & Baron-Cohen, S. (2). Sex and age differences in ‘theory of mind’ across 57 countries using the English version of ‘Reading the Mind in the Eyes’ test. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
  36. Greenberg, D. M., Milstein, R., Gilboa, A., Cohen, S., Haimovich, N., Seigman, S., Pinhasi, S., & Gordon, I. (in press). Improvised herding: Mapping biobehavioral mechanisms that underlie group efficacy during improvised social interaction. Psychophysiology

BOOK CHAPTERS

  1. McCrae R., R., & Greenberg, D. M. (2014). Openness to experience. In D. K. Simonton (Ed.), The Wiley-Blackwell Handbook of Genius. Oxford, UK: Wiley-Blackwell.
  2. Greenberg, D. M. & Rentfrow, P. J. (2017). The social psychological underpinnings of musical identities: A study on how personality stereotypes are formed from musical cues. In R. MacDonald, D. Miell, & D. Hargreaves (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Musical Identities. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press.
  3. Greenberg, D. M. & Baron-Cohen, S. (2017). Empathizing-Systemizing theory: Past, present, and future. In V. Zeigler-Hill & T. K. Shackelford (Eds.), Encyclopedia of Personality and Individual Differences. Springer.
  4. Rentfrow, P. J., & Greenberg, D. M. (2019). The social psychology of music. In P. J. Rentfrow & D. J. Levitin (Eds.), Foundations in Music Psychology: Theory and Research. MIT Press.
  5. Greenberg, D. M. (2019). Music and personality. In V. Zeigler-Hill & T. K. Shackelford (Eds.), Encyclopedia of Personality and Individual Differences. Springer.
  6. Greenberg, D. M. (2021). Music, spirituality, and ecstatic states. In W. Forde Thompson & K. Olsen (Eds.), The Science and Psychology of Music: From Beethoven at the Office to Beyoncé at the Gym. ABC-CLIO.