Emotional Responses to Music: The Essential Inclusion of Emotion Adaptability and Situational Context.

The link between music and emotion, as articulated from a cognitive perspective, assumes that music carries expressive cues that convey or induce emotional responses in listeners. Studies following this paradigm often investigate how responses converge or diverge among individuals, social groups, an...

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Published in:Empirical Studies of the Arts Vol. 43; no. 1; pp. 451 - 484
Main Authors: Susino, Marco, Thompson, William Forde, Schubert, Emery, Broughton, Mary
Format: Article
Published: Sage Publications Inc. Jan2025
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          Susino, Marco
          Thompson, William Forde
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          7117San Diego State University, San Diego, CA, United States
          3555Bond University, Gold Coast, QLD, Australia
          UNSW Australia, Empirical Musicology Lab, Sydney, NSW, Australia
          1974The University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD, Australia
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        Music & emotions
        Aesthetic experience
        Continuous processing
        Social groups
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        adaptive processes
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