Music communicates social emotions: Evidence from 750 music excerpts.

ABSTRACT: Humans perceive a range of basic emotional connotations from music, such as joy, sadness, and fear, which can be decoded from structural characteristics of music, such as rhythm, harmony, and timbre. However, despite theory and evidence that music has multiple social functions, little research has examined whether music conveys emotions specifically associated with social status and social connection. This investigation aimed to determine whether the social emotions of dominance and affiliation are perceived in music and whether structural features of music predict social emotions, just as they predict basic emotions. Participants (N = 1513) listened to subsets of 750 music excerpts and provided ratings of energy arousal, tension arousal, valence, dominance, and affiliation. Ratings were m

SUBMITTER: Pring EX 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11557968 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature