PSY387H5 Lecture 8: Music and Preferences
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Music preferences: preferences for certain genres, liking unfamiliar music, consider from a different point of view style of music, liking music that expresses certain emotions, ex: why do people listen to sad sounding music (negative valence) Gave people a list of genre of music and asked them to rate how much they liked each genre: ex: blues, pop, rap/hip-hop, etc. In general, people who like rap also like electronica. There is a bias for liking happy music. Listen to the story with the music playing in the other ear (for the and, the, but condition) Distinguishing between happy and sad music: tempo and key, happy: fast an, sad: slow and low. The third bar get rid of the typical bias for happy sounding-music. Circumplex model: arousal (high to low, valence (pleasant to unpleasant) High arousal and positive valence = happiness. Different emotions can have same levels of valence: ex: fearful and angry music.
