Final-note expectancy and humor: an empirical investigation

Abstract Background Melodic expectations were manipulated to investigate the nature of tonally incongruent melodic final notes that may elicit humor in listeners. To our knowledge, this is the first experiment aiming at studying humor elicitation in music with the use of empirical, quantitative meth...

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Main Authors: Sándor Imre Nagy, György Révész, László Séra, Szabolcs Ajtony Bandi, László Stachó
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2022-09-01
Series:BMC Psychology
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1186/s40359-022-00936-z