ArticleFrontiers in psychology2020
On the Enjoyment of Sad Music: Pleasurable Compassion Theory and the Role of Trait Empathy.
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- Musical Enjoyment and Reward: From Hedonic Pleasure to Eudaimonic Listening.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Article
- Neural Correlates of Music Listening: Does the Music Matter?Brain sciences · 2021Review
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Abstract
Drawing on recent empirical studies on the enjoyment of nominally sad music, a general theory of the pleasure of tragic or sad portrayals is presented. Not all listeners enjoy sad music. Multiple studies indicate that those individuals who enjoy sad music exhibit a particular pattern of empathic traits. These individuals score high on
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