Listening to music prompts strong emotional reactions in the listeners but relatively little
research has focused on individual differences. This study addresses the role of musical …

A crucial issue in research on music and emotion is whether music evokes genuine
emotional responses in listeners (the emotivist position) or whether listeners merely …

Emotions have been found to play a paramount role in both everyday music experiences
and health applications of music, but the applicability of musical emotions depends on: 1) …

Music is universal at least partly because it expresses emotion and regulates affect.
Associations between music and emotion have been examined regularly by music …

Music is a stimulus capable of triggering an array of basic and complex emotions. We
investigated whether and how individuals employ music to induce specific emotional states …

Music may arouse intense emotions in listeners, but little is known about the circumstances
that contribute to such reactions. Here we report a listening experiment that investigated the …

Musical stimuli are widely used in emotion research and intervention studies. However,
reviews have repeatedly noted that a lack of pre‐evaluated musical stimuli is stalling …

Pitch is a fundamental musical factor; however, findings about its contribution to the
elicitation of emotions are contradictory. The purpose of this work was to assess the effect of …

While it has extensively been argued that aesthetic categories such as beauty have a direct
relationship to emotion, there has only been limited psychological research on the …

The use of music as emotional stimuli in experimental studies has grown in recent years.
However, prior studies have mainly focused on self‐reports and central measures, with a …