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Correia, A. I., Lima, C. F. & Schellenberg, E. G. (2025). Self-awareness of musical ability. Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts. 19 (6), 1301-1310

A. I. Correia et al.,  "Self-awareness of musical ability", in Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts, vol. 19, no. 6, pp. 1301-1310, 2025

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	author = "Correia, A. I. and Lima, C. F. and Schellenberg, E. G.",
	title = "Self-awareness of musical ability",
	journal = "Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts",
	year = "2025",
	volume = "19",
	number = "6",
	doi = "10.1037/aca0000612",
	pages = "1301-1310",
	url = "https://www.apa.org/pubs/journals/aca"
}

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TI  - Self-awareness of musical ability
T2  - Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts
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AU  - Lima, C. F.
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AB  - We asked whether adults have accurate self-awareness of their musical ability, and whether such self-awareness relates to other individual differences. Participants (N = 256) rated how musical they were compared to their friends, colleagues, family, and the general population. They subsequently completed self-report measures of musical behaviors (Goldsmiths Musical Sophistication Index [Gold-MSI]) and personality, as well as objective tests of cognitive (matrix reasoning problems) and musical (Musical Ear Test [MET]) abilities. Participants considered themselves to be more musical than their colleagues and family but not than their friends and the general population. Correlations with Gold-MSI scores provided evidence for the construct and content validity of the self-ratings. Musicality self-ratings were associated with better performance on the Melody (but not the rhythm) subtest of the MET, higher levels of openness-to-experience and extraversion, and gender: men rated themselves as particularly musical even though there were no gender differences in objective musical ability. Cognitive ability was not associated with self-ratings although it predicted MET scores and the accuracy of self-ratings. In short, individuals exhibited self-awareness for pitch-based aspects of their musical ability. Their evaluations were associated with their personalities and tended to be exaggerated, however, particularly for men and for participants with lower cognitive ability.
ER  -