PSY387H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Emotivism, Hindustani Classical Music, Explicit Memory
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In general, negative emotions were much rarer than positive emotions: emotional responses to music could be grouped into 9 main categories, wonder, transcendence, tenderness, nostalgia, peacefulness, power, tension, sadness. Joyful activation: many emotions were perceived more frequently than felt (eg. power, sadness, some were felt more frequently than perceived (eg. peacefulness, emotional responding also depended on the musical genre. Musical characteristics: which dimensions of western music lead to perceiving and feeling emotions, tempo (fast or slow), mode (major or minor), and pitch height (high or low) Japanese listeners rated perceived happiness, sadness, or anger in japanese, western, or. Hindustani music: they also made ratings of perceived tempo, loudness, and complexity, listeners gave the highest ratings to the intended emotion across the three musical cultures, accuracy also varied as a function of the musical culture. Across the 3 musical cultures: happy music was rated as fast and simple, sad music was slow and complex, angry music was loud and complex.
