ArticleScientific reports2024
Music communicates social emotions: Evidence from 750 music excerpts.
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- Evaluative and emotional routes to audience intention in musical-theater singing: An integrated response architecture.Frontiers in psychology · 2026Article
- Music reward sensitivity and subjective well-being in college students: the indirect pathways of resilience and perceived social support.Frontiers in psychology · 2026Article
- Fusion of EEG feature extraction and CNN-MSTA transformer emotion recognition classification model.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Research on auditory and olfactory regulation methods for abnormal driver emotions based on EEG signals.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2025Article
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Humans perceive a range of basic emotional connotations from music, such as joy, sadness, and fear, which can be decoded from structural characteristics of music, such as rhythm, harmony, and timbre. However, despite theory and evidence that music has multiple social functions, little research has examined whether music conveys emotions specifically associated with social status and social connection. This investigation aimed to determine whether the social emotions of dominance and affiliation are perceived in music and whether structural features of music predict social emotions, just as they predict basic emotions. Participants (N = 1513) listened to subsets of 750 music excerpts and provided ratings of energy arousal, tension arousal, valence, dominance, and affiliation. Ratings were modelled based on ten structural features of music. Dominance and affiliation were readily perceived in music and predicted by structural features including rhythm, harmony, dynamics, and timbre. In turn, energy arousal, tension arousal and valence were also predicted by musical structure. We discuss the results in view of current models of music and emotion and propose research to illuminate the significance of social emotions in music.
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