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M A N U S C R I P T S

Agrawal, T., & Schachner, A. (2023). Aesthetic motivation impacts judgments of others' prosociality, emotionality, and mental life. Open Mind: Discoveries in Cognitive Science, 7, 947-980

Agrawal, T., Rottman, J., & Schachner, A. (2023). The moral consequences of music: Cognitive bases of the link between music and prosocial behavior. Psychology of Music, 51(1), 316-336.

Agrawal, T., & Schachner, A. (2022). Hearing water temperature: Characterizing the development of nuanced perception of sound sources. Developmental Science, 00, e13321 

Agrawal, T., Shanahan, D., Huron, D., & Keller, H. (2021). Time-of-day Practices Echo Circadian Physiological Arousal: An Enculturated-Embodied Practice in Hindustani Classical Music. Musicae Scientiae.  

Agrawal, T., Lee, M., Calcetas, A., Clarke, D., Lin, N., & Schachner, A. (2020). Hearing water temperature: Characterizing the development of nuanced perception of auditory events. In S. Denison, M. Mack, Y. Xu, & B. Armstrong (Eds.), Proceedings of the 42nd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, 42, 494-499

Agrawal, T., & Schachner, A. (in prep). Singing whales, dancing parrots: Adults and young children judge musical animals as more wrong to harm.

Agrawal, T., & Schachner, A. (in prep). Demonstrations of musicality increase prosocial feelings towards people experiencing incarceration by signaling their greater emotionality.

Agrawal, T., Vuoskoski, J., & Clarke, E. (in prep). Strong aesthetic emotions are prosocial: Being moved feels the same when it is evoked by music as when it is evoked by poignant social situations.


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P R E S E N T A T I O N S

Agrawal, T., & Schachner, A. (accepted; 2024, March). Hearing water temperature: Characterizing the development of nuanced perception of sound sources. Talk to be given at the Cognitive Development Society 2024 Meeting, Pasadena, CA. 

Agrawal, T., & Schachner, A. (accepted; 2024, March). Aesthetic appreciation impacts judgments of others’ prosociality and mental traits. Talk to be given at the 1st Annual Meeting of the Society for the Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, & the Arts, Denton, TX.

Agrawal, T., & Schachner, A. (accepted; 2024, February). Aesthetic appreciation impacts judgments of others’ prosociality and mental traits. Poster to be presented at the Society for Personality & Social Psychology, San Diego, CA..

Agrawal, T., & Schachner, A. (2024, January). Musicality changes moral consideration of animals: People judge musical animals more wrong to harm. Talk to be given at the Budapest CEU Conference on Cognitive Development, Budapest, Hungary.

Agrawal, T., & Schachner, A. (2023, November). Aesthetic appreciation impacts judgments of others’ prosociality by signaling their heightened emotionality. Talk to be given at the Second International Conference on Beauty and Change, Turin, Italy.

Agrawal, T., & Schachner, A. (2023, October). The impact of musicality & aesthetic appreciation on social judgments. Talk given at Music Cognition Colloquium, Princeton University, NJ.

Agrawal, T., & Schachner, A. (2022, August). People think of others as more prosocial when their musical behavior is motivated by aesthetics vs. functional goals. Talk given at the Society for Music Perception and Cognition 2022 Conference, Portland, OR. 

Agrawal, T., & Schachner, A. (2022, July). People think of others as more prosocial when they are motivated by aesthetic goals vs. instrumental goals. Flash talk given at the 44th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, Toronto, CA. 

Agrawal, T., Rottmann, J., & Schachner, A. (2021, March). How musicality changes moral consideration: People judge musical entities as more wrong to harm. Talk given at the Future Directions in Music Cognition, Columbus, OH. 

Agrawal, T., Lee, M., Calcetas, A., Clarke, D., Lin, N., & Schachner, A. (2020, July). Hearing water temperature: Characterizing the development of nuanced perception of auditory events. Talk given at the 2020 Cognitive Science Society Meeting, Toronto, CA. 

Agrawal, T., Rottmann, J., & Schachner, A. (2020, May). Musicality changes our moral decisions: Why people judge musical entities to be more wrong to harm. Talk given at the virtual Brain, Cognition, Emotion, Music Conference, Canterbury, UK.  

Agrawal, T., Rottmann, J., & Schachner, A. (2019, August). The moral consequences of music: Cognitive bases of the link between music and prosocial behavior. Talk given at the 2019 Biennial Meeting of the Society for Music Perception and Cognition, New York, NY.  

Agrawal, T., Lee, M., Calcetas, A., Clarke, D., Lin, N., & Schachner, A. (2019, August). Hearing water temperature: A case study in the development of extracting meaning from sound. Talk given at the 2019 Biennial Meeting of the Society for Music Perception and Cognition, New York, NY. 

Agrawal, T., Lee, M., Calcetas, A., Clarke, D., Lin, N., & Schachner, A. (2019, March). Hearing water temperature: Characterizing the development of auditory event perception. Poster presented at the 2019 Society for Research in Child Development Biennial Meeting, Baltimore, MD. 

Agrawal, T., Elliott, E. M., Calamia, M., Stanko, K., & Cherry., K. (2018. November). Post-Disaster Cognitive Functioning in 2016 Louisiana Flood Victims. Poster presented at the 59th Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, New Orleans, LA. 

Agrawal, T., Vuoskoski, J., & Clarke, E. (2018, July). Moved by Music: A Preliminary Exploration of a Powerful Music-Induced Emotion. Talk given at the 15th International Conference on Music Perception and Cognition, Montreal, Canada.  

Keller, H., Fink, J., Agrawal, T., & Shanahan, D. (2017, July). The Relationship between Circadian Rhythms and Suggested Raga Performance Times: A Corpus Study. Talk given at the Society for Music Perception and Cognition 2017 Biennial Meeting, San Diego, CA.

Agrawal, T., Vuoskoski, J., & Clarke, E. (2016, September). Moved by Music: Motion, Emotion, and Empathy. Poster presented at the Music, Mind and Society 2016 Annual Symposium, Nashville, TN.