Peer-reviewed papers
Tukachinsky, R., Spitz, D.H., Rabinowitch, T-C., & Granot, R. (in press). How Experiencing Eudaimonic Emotions Through Music Shapes Prosocial and Altruistic Behavior: Introducing A Unified Model of Music-Listening-Induced Eudaimonia (UMMIE). Frontiers in Cognition, 4:1705976. link to paper.
Hadar, T. , & Rabinowitch, T-C. (in press). Tight or Loose? Reframing Musical Relationships Between Client and Therapist in Music Therapy. Music Therapy Perspectives.
Dvir, T., Elefant, C., & Rabinowitch, T-C. (2025). Group Interpersonal Synchrony Increases Prosocial Behavior in Young Autistic Adults: A Randomized Controlled Trial. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders. link to paper .
Grinspun, N., Landesman, E., García, Y., & Rabinowitch, T-C. (2025). Dance with me? Analyzing interpersonal synchrony and quality of interaction during joint dance. Behavior Research Methods, 57:12. link to paper
Rabinowitch, T-C., Brooks, R., & Meltzoff, A.N. (2024). Children in Sync: Exploring How Interpersonal Synchrony Experience Induces Cooperation Between Child Peers. Scientific Reports, 14:28130. Link to paper
Stern, A., Feniger-Schaal, R., & Rabinowitch, T-C. (2024). “Just Play”: Developing a drama therapy dyadic play intervention for children with intellectual developmental disabilities and their parents. Drama Therapy Review, 10, 163-171. link to paper.
Dvir, T., Rabinowitch, T-C., & Elefant, C. (2024). The effectiveness of group interpersonal synchrony in young autistic adults' work environment: A mixed-methods RCT protocol. PloS One, 19(7): e0307956. link to paper.
Spiro, N., Sanfillipo, K.R.M., [...], Rabinowitch, T-C ., [...], & de Wit, K. (2023). Perspectives on Musical Care Throughout the Life Course: Introducing the Musical Care International Network. Music & Science, 6. link to paper.
Nissel-Miller, N., & Rabinowitch, T-C. (2023). Perceptions of interpersonal synchrony in a joint painting procedure. Journal of Creative Arts Therapies, 13(1), 1459-1468. link to paper.
Federman, D., Blustein, A., & Rabinowitch, T-C. (2023). Mapping the physical language of children diagnosed with Autism: A preliminary study. Children, 10, 1091. link to paper
Hadar, T., & Rabinowitch, T.-C. (2023). The varying social dynamics in orally transmitted and notated vs. improvised musical performance. Frontiers in Psychology, 14:1106092. link to paper
Abraham, R., Grinspun, N., & Rabinowitch, T.-C. (2023). Painting in coordination is perceived as a positive interpersonal interaction. The Arts in Psychotherapy, 83, 102020. link to paper
Rabinowitch, T.-C., & Dassa, A., Shwed-Sadot, A. & Trincher, A. (2023), Outcomes and experiences of an online ‘Balance-Space’ music therapy intervention for Cancer patients: A mixed-methods study. The Arts in Psychotherapy, 82, 101998. link to paper
Rabinowitch, T.-C. (2022). Musical engagement as a duet of tight synchrony and loose interpretability. Physics of Life Reviews, 44, 122-136. link to paper
Abraham, R., Grinspun, N., & Rabinowitch, T.-C. (2022). Children’s perception of interpersonal coordination during joint painting. Scientific Reports, 12(1), 18897. link to paper
Lense, M., Ladányi, E., Rabinowitch, T.-C., Trainor, L., & Gordon, R. (2021). Rhythm and timing as vulnerabilities in neurodevelopmental disorders, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, 376(1835), 20200327. pdf
Burnard, P., Sorensen, N., Gill, S., & Rabinowitch, T.-C. (2021). Identifying new parameters informing relationship between silence and sound in diverse musical performance practices and perception. International Journal of Music Science, Technology and Art, 3, 7-17. pdf
Rabinowitch, T.-C. (2020). The potential of music to effect social change. Music & Science, 3, 1-6. pdf.
Rabinowitch. T.-C., Klein, P., Atira, G., Ben-Eliezer, R. (2020; advanced online publication). Caregiver- versus mother-infant interactions in relation to cognitive, social and emotional measures at 11 years of age. Early Child Development and Care, 1-15. link to paper.
Rabinowitch, T.-C., & Cross, I. (2019). Joint rhythmic tapping elicits distinct emotions depending on tap timing and prior musical training. Emotion. 19, 808-817. link to paper
Rabinowitch, T.-C., & Meltzoff, A.N. (2017). Joint rhythmic movement increases 4-year-old children’s prosocial sharing and fairness towards peers. Frontiers in Psychology, 8:1050. link to paper
Rabinowitch, T.-C., & Meltzoff, A.N. (2017). Enhancing preschoolers’ cooperation through experience with synchronized movement. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 160, 21-32. pdf
Rabinowitch, T.-C., & Knafo-Noam, A. (2015). Synchronous rhythmic interaction enhances children's perceived similarity and closeness towards each other. PLoS One, 10, e0120878. pdf
Rabinowitch, T.-C., Cross, I., & Burnard, P. (2013). Long-term musical group interaction has a positive influence on empathy in children. Psychology of Music, 41, 484-498. link to paper
Riek, L. D., Rabinowitch, T.-C., Bremner, P., Pipe, A. G., Fraser, M., & Robinson, P. (2010). Cooperative gestures: Effective signaling for humanoid robots. 5th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI), 2010, 61-68. pdf
Riek, L. D., Rabinowitch, T.-C., Chakrabarti, B., & Robinson, P. (2009). How anthropomorphism affects empathy toward robots. 4th ACM/IEEE international conference on Human-Robot interaction (HRI), 245-246. pdf
Riek, L. D., Rabinowitch, T.-C., Chakrabarti, B., & Robinson, P. (2009). Empathizing with robots: Fellow feeling along the anthropomorphic spectrum. 3rd IEEE International Conference on Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction and Workshops, 1-6. pdf
Commentaries
Rabinowitch, T-C. (2024). Stretching the limits of tightness and looseness in music interaction. Reply to comments on “Musical engagement as a duet of tight synchrony and loose", by T-C. Rabinowitch. Physics of Life Reviews, 51, 104-107. link to paper.
Rabinowitch, T-C. (2015). Music, empathy and cultural understanding: The need for developmental research: Comment on “Music, empathy and cultural understanding” by E. Clarke et al., Physics of Life Reviews, 15, 101-102. pdf
Rabinowitch, T-C. (2015). How, rather than what type of music increases empathy. Empirical Musicology Review, 10(1-2), 96-98. pdf
Cross, I., Gill, S., Knight, S., Nash, C., Rabinowitch, T-C., Slobodian, L., Spiro, N., Woodruff, G., & Woolhouse, M. (2008). Commentary on the perception and cognition of time in Balinese music, by Andrew Clay McGraw, Empirical Musicology Review, 3(2), 54-57. pdf
Book Chapters
Rabinowitch, T.-C., Cirelli, L. (2023), The social origins of music. In: M. Barrett, and G. Welch, (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Early Childhood Music Learning and Development, Oxford University Press, pp. 149-165. Link to Book
Farrant, C., Dunbar, N., Rabinowitch, T.-C. (2022), Childhood: Music for care and development. In: N. Spiro, and K.R Sanfilippo, (Eds.), Collaborative insights: Interdisciplinary perspectives on musical care throughout the lifetime, Oxford University Press, pp. 44-69. Link to Book
Rabinowitch, T.-C. & Gill, S. (2021), Musical interaction, social communication and wellbeing. In: R. Timmers, and F. Bailes and H. Daffern, (Eds.), Together in Music: Participation, coordination, and creativity in ensembles. Oxford University Press, pp. 210-217. Link to book
Rabinowitch, T.-C. (2017), Synchronization: A musical substrate for positive social interaction and empathy. In: E. King, and C. Waddington, (Eds.), Music and Empathy, Ashgate Press, pp. 89-96.
Rabinowitch, T.-C., Cross, I., Burnard, P., (2012), Musical group interaction, intersubjectivity and merged subjectivity, in: D. Reynolds, and M. Reason, (Eds.), Kinesthetic Empathy in Creative and Cultural Practices, Intellect Press, pp. 109-120.
Cross, I., Laurence, F., Rabinowitch, T.-C. (2012), Empathic creativity in musical group practices, in: G. McPherson, and G. Welch, (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Music Education, Oxford University Press, pp. 337-353. pdf