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 …

Given the vast amount of evidence showing the substantial influence of emotion on decision-
making, we examined emotionality—a person's emotional reactivity to a stimulus—in police …

Spreading activation in the cognitive network explains why music is experienced as familiar
or likable. It might also be a premise for the emotion-inducing mechanisms of the …

A series of experiments published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
in 2015 showed that search engine results favoring one candidate can (a) shift the …

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

A series of experiments published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
in 2015 showed that search engine results favoring one candidate can (a) shift the …

The state of interest as a positive emotion is associated with the ability to comprehend new
information and/or to better consolidate already perceived information, to increase the …

This study explores soft sell and hard sell vocal appeals across two different countries,
France and New Zealand. We use quantitative and qualitative methods to analyze …

We tested how induced emotions and Turkish makam recognition are influenced by
participation in an ear training class and whether either is influenced by the temperament …

Mein besonderer Dank gilt meiner Betreuerin, Frau Prof. Dr. Beate Schuster, bei der ich
mich sowohl für die großartige Unterstützung, die intensive Betreuung und die vielen …