Academic Consortium Publications for April 2022

Recently published research leads us to believe that Hank Williams, Sr. did not pen the lament "There's a tear in my beer / 'Cause I'm cryin' for you, dear / You are on my lonely mind" in a white booth in a sensory lab. The study, published in Food Quality and Preference, is unrelated to musicology and does not mention Williams at all, but clearly the connection exists. In the study, beer drinkers were tasked with giving their self-reported emotional responses while drinking beer in the campus student union bar and also while sitting in white booths in a sensory lab. Beer drinkers felt more shocked 😲, more content 😊, more excited 😃, more nostalgic 😌💘/💔, more disgusted 🤢, and more curious 🤔 when consuming beer in the on-campus student union bar than in white booths in a central location test. Test-retest reliability of emotional responses was higher after drinking a full beer 🍺 than lesser quantities. Probably it would be unethical to have beer drinkers consume very, very large quantities of beer, so for insight in this case we turn again to Williams' N=1 observational study. He sings 🎶: "Into these last nine beers / I have shed a million tears / You are on my lonely mind". Achieving this quantity of tears (a million!) requires consistency in emotional response during the beer-drinking session. Since these lyrics are repeated, we speculate that each corresponds to a separate beer-drinking event, each consistent in its tear-filled loneliness, none of them in a sensory booth. Intrigued? You can find the publication by Nijman et al. here <https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0950329322000787> and Williams' song of lament here <https://youtu.be/KR31easm__c>. For more fine publications from the Compusense academic consortium in April 2022, see below!