Pub Date : 2024-04-08DOI: 10.1177/02762374241237683
Marco Susino, William Forde Thompson, Emery Schubert, Mary Broughton
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, and cultures. However, results vary from one study to another, with few satisfactory explanations as to why. We contend that emotional responses to music are adaptable, arising from a conscious and subconscious continuous processing of the overarching situational context and its interaction with psychophysical, cultural, and personal variables. By integrating theory and data from multiple domains, we present the Framework for Adaptable Musical Emotions (FAME), which explains emotional responses to music through the mechanism of emotion adaptability on a continuum of evolutionary to fleeting time frames. FAME represents an advance on models of music and emotion that primarily focus on decoding emotional signals from the sounded music. FAME provides the first basis for predictions of emotional adaptability and situational context and may explain previously observed variability in emotional responses to music, guiding future research, and novel understandings.
从认知角度阐述音乐与情感之间的联系时,假定音乐带有表达性线索,能够传达或诱发听众的情感反应。遵循这一范式的研究通常会调查不同个体、社会群体和文化之间的反应是如何趋同或差异的。然而,每项研究的结果都不尽相同,很少有令人满意的解释。我们认为,对音乐的情绪反应是可适应的,它产生于意识和潜意识对总体情境及其与心理物理、文化和个人变量之间相互作用的持续处理。通过整合来自多个领域的理论和数据,我们提出了 "音乐情感适应性框架"(Framework for Adaptable Musical Emotions,FAME),该框架通过情感适应性机制解释了从进化到转瞬即逝的连续时间框架内对音乐的情感反应。FAME 代表了音乐和情感模型的进步,这些模型主要侧重于解码音乐中的情感信号。FAME为预测情感适应性和情境背景提供了第一个基础,并可以解释之前观察到的对音乐的情感反应的变异性,从而指导未来的研究和新的理解。
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This article examines the role of epistemic value, and social value on behavioral intentions and the relationship between these three factors as antecedents of word of mouth (WOM) and electronic word of mouth (eWOM) in the opera sector. The effects of these antecedents are investigated using a multimethod approach combining partial least square and necessary condition analysis. A quantitative study was conducted on a sample of 149 operagoers. The results show that epistemic value influences repurchase intentions, while social value does not. Furthermore, epistemic value and social value are positive sufficient and necessary antecedents of WOM, showing relevant results regarding their ultimate role in generating WOM. Similarly, social value is a positive sufficient but not necessary antecedent of eWOM. The findings suggest that cultural managers should emphasize learning experiences regarding the opera, as epistemic value is highly valuable for WOM and the reason for attending another opera.
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Pub Date : 2024-03-18DOI: 10.1177/02762374241239890
Ana Butković, Valnea Žauhar
In this study, we examined the associations between music preferences, uses of music and personality factors and facets. The sample included 449 participants (50% female, M = 23.59, SD = 2.14) who indicated preferences for international and regional music styles that were classified into Reflective and Complex, Intense and Rebellious, Upbeat and Conventional, Energetic and Rhythmic, and Regional preferences, and filled in the Uses of Music Inventory and IPIP-300 questionnaire. After controlling for age, gender and uses of music, personality significantly added to the prediction of all music preferences, except Energetic and Rhythmic. Personality factors explained additionally from 9% to 21%, and facets from 18% to 34% of the music preference variance, respectively. Openness, as well as some openness facets, emerged as significant predictors for different music preferences. Our results indicate that when trying to explain preferences with personality traits, the personality traits should be measured at the facet level.
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Pub Date : 2024-03-13DOI: 10.1177/02762374241237981
Arkadiusz Urbanek, Anna Borkowska, Wojciech Milczarski, Jarosław Zagrobelny, Jerzy Luty, Michał Białek
Vague, impressive language used in descriptions (bullshit) is thought to make art seem more profound and valuable to the viewer. We studied the effect during art exhibitions in real-life gallery-goers who saw paintings of four artists, each with either simplified, neutral, or bullshitty description. We crafted a typical description of each painting, which we later manipulated in terms of language. A simplified description was modified to be concrete and simplistic, while a bullshitty one was very abstract and vague. After analyzing over 1500 ratings, we found the expressive language of descriptions had a negligible effect on the perceived quality and monetary value of art ( R2 marginal ≤ 1%). We conclude that, at least for experienced gallery-goers, the description accompanying a painting has little influence, and the art speaks for itself.
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Pub Date : 2024-03-07DOI: 10.1177/02762374231217638
Nastaran Kazemian, Khatereh Borhani, Soroosh Golbabaei, Julia F. Christensen
Results remain mixed regarding the effects of incubation tasks on divergent thinking, a type of creativity, generally assessed via the Unusual Uses Task (UUT). Using a within-subjects design, we compared 64 participants’ performance on the UUT, after four different incubation tasks: copy a simple painting, copy a complex painting, 0-back-task, and rest. We hypothesized that an arts-related activity during incubation (here: copy a painting) would boost subsequent creativity. Five different creativity scores were computed from the raw UUT data, and we provide a step-by-step guide for how to compute these: fluency, flexibility, originality, subjective creativity, and usefulness. Creativity was only modulated by sex; women outperformed men on creative fluency. No other variables, nor the incubations, modulated any of participants’ creativity scores. A within-group comparison showed that the unusual uses of our all-Iranian participants were more useful than unique, echoing previous work suggesting differences between Eastern and Western conceptions of creativity.
关于培养任务对发散思维(一种创造力,通常通过 "不寻常用途任务"(UUT)进行评估)的影响,研究结果仍然不一。我们采用被试内设计,比较了 64 名参与者在完成四项不同的培养任务(临摹一幅简单的画、临摹一幅复杂的画、0-back-task 和休息)后在 UUT 上的表现。我们假设,在熏陶期间进行与艺术相关的活动(这里指的是临摹一幅画)会提高随后的创造力。我们根据 UUT 原始数据计算出了五种不同的创造力得分,并提供了计算这些得分的步骤指南:流畅性、灵活性、独创性、主观创造力和实用性。创造力只受性别影响;女性在创造力的流畅性方面优于男性。其他变量和 "孵化 "均不影响参与者的创造力得分。组内比较显示,我们所有伊朗参与者的不寻常用途更有用而非独特,这与之前的研究结果一致,表明东西方对创造力的概念存在差异。
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Pub Date : 2024-02-04DOI: 10.1177/02762374241230911
B. S. Funch, Stella Theodoraki
The aim of this study is to provide a phenomenological description of the art experience and by doing so, explaining why art is generally associated with an emotional response, but talked about in cognitive terms. The study is based on a microgenetic experiment in which the informants, prior to an interview, encounter a work of art by the American artist Eric Orr. The work consists of a pitch-black space and provides optimal conditions for a microgenetic study with an actual work of art, not a reproduction, which are typically used in microgenetic studies. The study shows a microgenesis in which pure sensation gives rise to an emotional response without any cognitive inference, and only after the emotional response, cognitive functions such as exploration, contextualization, and comprehension take over in the order mentioned.
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Pub Date : 2024-02-04DOI: 10.1177/02762374241230911
B. S. Funch, Stella Theodoraki
The aim of this study is to provide a phenomenological description of the art experience and by doing so, explaining why art is generally associated with an emotional response, but talked about in cognitive terms. The study is based on a microgenetic experiment in which the informants, prior to an interview, encounter a work of art by the American artist Eric Orr. The work consists of a pitch-black space and provides optimal conditions for a microgenetic study with an actual work of art, not a reproduction, which are typically used in microgenetic studies. The study shows a microgenesis in which pure sensation gives rise to an emotional response without any cognitive inference, and only after the emotional response, cognitive functions such as exploration, contextualization, and comprehension take over in the order mentioned.
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Pub Date : 2023-12-27DOI: 10.1177/02762374231221920
K. Gotthardt, Katrin Rakoczy, Miles Tallon, Matthias Seitz, Ulrich Frick
Since the dawn of digital art, discourse regarding its potential persists. This research investigates how a virtual reality (VR) art gallery impacts positive and negative affect, examining the influences of aesthetic experiences and individual characteristics. It explores the connection between measures of aesthetic experiences (self-assessed, heart rate, and heart rate variability) and how gender influences this relationship. Digital art's beneficial effect is indicated by decreased negative affect after visiting the VR gallery, potentially influencing mental wellbeing. Individual characteristics influence this impact on affect after the VR experience, especially openness to experience and affect before the visit, mediated by aesthetic experience, and expertise mediated by heart rate. The findings highlight the potential impact of gender on subjective interpretations of physiological responses in the VR environment. Specifically, women tend to attribute heightened heart rate, a sign of arousal, while men associate increased heart rate variability, a sign of relaxation, to positive experiences in the VR.
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Pub Date : 2023-11-22DOI: 10.1177/02762374231216033
Sijia E. Song, Douglas A. Kowalewski, Ronald S. Friedman
The preference for harmony (PfH) has been posited to represent an individual difference in the preference for stimuli that are relatively simple, regular, and/or harmonious. We tested whether variations in PfH may also reflect the extent to which individuals prefer stimuli that are more familiar, irrespective of their structural features. To this end, we examined the association between PfH and two behavioral measures of the preference for familiarity, one based on individual differences in the strength of the mere-exposure effect and the other based on preferences for musical chords that appear more versus less frequently within Western musical corpora. Our results showed modest but reliable positive correlations between PfH and both measures. These findings qualify the original interpretation of PfH by suggesting that it at least partially reflects a predilection for stimuli that are more familiar, not just structurally simpler, more regular, and/or more harmonious.
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Pub Date : 2023-11-19DOI: 10.1177/02762374231215736
Vered Heruti, N. Mashal
This study examined whether creative thinking improves by utilizing an intervention program based on three types of ambiguous image-text interactions within artwork: (1) ambiguous text, (2) negation, and (3) semantically unrelated image-text. Participants (79) were divided into three groups: “ambiguous-negation-unrelated” group exposed to stimuli 1 + 2 + 3, “ambiguous-unrelated” group exposed to stimuli 1 + 3, and the control group unexposed to any intervention. The metaphor generation test (MGT) and Tel-Aviv creative test (TACT) were given pre- and post-intervention. The results showed the “ambiguous-negation-unrelated” intervention group scored higher on the TACT post-intervention, as compared to pre-intervention, a finding not observed among the “ambiguous-unrelated” and control groups. Furthermore, both art intervention groups generated more utterances overall (literal, conventional, and novel metaphors) in the MGT post-intervention, as compared to pre-intervention. These outcomes suggest this artwork intervention that utilized ambiguous image-text interactions and included theoretical discussion and reflective analysis can enhance divergent thinking.
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