Music Influences Ratings of the Affect of Visual Stimuli
This review provides an overview of recent studies that have examined how music influences the judgment of emotional stimuli, including affective pictures and film clips. The relevant findings are incorporated within a broader theory of music and emotion, and suggestions for future research are offe...
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| description | This review provides an overview of recent studies that have examined how music influences the judgment of emotional stimuli, including affective pictures and film clips. The relevant findings are incorporated within a broader theory of music and emotion, and suggestions for future research are offered.
Music is important in our daily lives, and one of its primary uses by listeners is the active regulation of one's mood. Despite this widespread use as a regulator of mood and its general pervasiveness in our society, the number of studies investigating the issue of whether, and how, music affects mood and emotional behaviour is limited however. Experiments investigating the effects of music have generally focused on how the emotional valence of background music impacts how affective pictures and/or film clips are evaluated. These studies have demonstrated strong effects of music on the emotional judgment of such stimuli. Most studies have reported concurrent background music to enhance the emotional valence when music and pictures are emotionally congruent. On the other hand, when music and pictures are emotionally incongruent, the ratings of the affect of the pictures will in- or decrease depending on the emotional valence of the background music. These results appear to be consistent in studies investigating the effects of (background) music. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-8c0f321e93334dd09d9ebd16b4b662c62022-12-21T22:42:56ZengUniversity of RijekaPsychological Topics1332-07422013-09-01222Music Influences Ratings of the Affect of Visual StimuliWaldie E Hanser0Ruth E Mark1Tholen, NetherlandsDepartment of Cognitive Neuropsychology, Tilburg University, Tilburg – The NetherlandsThis review provides an overview of recent studies that have examined how music influences the judgment of emotional stimuli, including affective pictures and film clips. The relevant findings are incorporated within a broader theory of music and emotion, and suggestions for future research are offered. Music is important in our daily lives, and one of its primary uses by listeners is the active regulation of one's mood. Despite this widespread use as a regulator of mood and its general pervasiveness in our society, the number of studies investigating the issue of whether, and how, music affects mood and emotional behaviour is limited however. Experiments investigating the effects of music have generally focused on how the emotional valence of background music impacts how affective pictures and/or film clips are evaluated. These studies have demonstrated strong effects of music on the emotional judgment of such stimuli. Most studies have reported concurrent background music to enhance the emotional valence when music and pictures are emotionally congruent. On the other hand, when music and pictures are emotionally incongruent, the ratings of the affect of the pictures will in- or decrease depending on the emotional valence of the background music. These results appear to be consistent in studies investigating the effects of (background) music.https://pt.ffri.hr/pt/article/view/146musicemotioncross-modal emotion perceptionaffective pictures |
| spellingShingle | Waldie E Hanser Ruth E Mark Music Influences Ratings of the Affect of Visual Stimuli Psychological Topics music emotion cross-modal emotion perception affective pictures |
| title | Music Influences Ratings of the Affect of Visual Stimuli |
| title_full | Music Influences Ratings of the Affect of Visual Stimuli |
| title_fullStr | Music Influences Ratings of the Affect of Visual Stimuli |
| title_full_unstemmed | Music Influences Ratings of the Affect of Visual Stimuli |
| title_short | Music Influences Ratings of the Affect of Visual Stimuli |
| title_sort | music influences ratings of the affect of visual stimuli |
| topic | music emotion cross-modal emotion perception affective pictures |
| url | https://pt.ffri.hr/pt/article/view/146 |
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