Research has shown that mind-wandering, negative mood, and poor wellbeing are closely
related, stressing the importance of exploring contexts or tools that can stimulate positive …

Processing fluency has been shown to affect how people aesthetically evaluate stimuli.
While this effect is well documented for visual stimuli, the evidence accumulated for auditory …

Selecting appropriate musical stimuli to induce specific emotions represents a recurring
challenge in music and emotion research. Most existing stimuli have been categorized …

Imagination plays a key role in evidence-based, cognitive therapies, and recent research
highlights that music–a perceptual stimulus imbued with affective and social meaning–can …

Numerous studies indicate that listening to music and reading are processes that interact in
multiple ways. However, these interactions have rarely been explored with regard to the role …

A limited amount of previous research suggests that deteriorating socioeconomic conditions
may be associated with greater popularity of music lyrics featuring negative emotional …

Research has shown that the emotional tone of music lyrics across genres has become less
positive over time. Case studies of some individual artists, such as The Beatles and Bob …

While music and dance are deeply connected art forms and music is frequently utilized in
the practice of dance/movement therapy, little is known about how therapists apply it in their …

This article proposes a theoretical paradigm encapsulating the interrelations of music
arousal and emotional valence with four commonly-studied musical factors: tempo …

Objectives: Music is a multidimensional phenomenon and is classified by its arousal
properties, emotional quality, and structural characteristics. Although structural features of …