In the age of the Internet and with the dramatic proliferation of mobile listening technologies,
music has unprecedented global distribution and embeddedness in people's lives. It is a …

The field of music and emotion research has grown rapidly and diversified during the last
decade. This has led to a certain degree of confusion and inconsistency between competing …

The primary aim of the present study was to systematically compare perceived emotions in
music using two different theoretical frameworks: the discrete emotion model, and the …

Musical behaviours are universal across human populations and, at the same time, highly
diverse in their structures, roles and cultural interpretations. Although laboratory studies of …

Most research focuses on actual affect, or the affective states that people actually feel. In this
article, I demonstrate the importance and utility of studying ideal affect, or the affective states …

It has long been debated which aspects of music perception are universal and which are
developed only after exposure to a specific musical culture [1–5]. Here, we report a …

Humans use music for a variety of social functions: we sing to accompany dance, to soothe
babies, to heal illness, to communicate love, and so on. Across animal taxa, vocalization …

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

The study of music perception and cognition is one of the oldest topics in experimental
psychology. The last 20 years have seen an increased interest in understanding the …

The recent surge of interest towards the paradoxical pleasure produced by sad music has
generated a handful of theories and an array of empirical explorations on the topic …