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ArticleRoyal Society open science2026

Moral echoes: do morality and humanness affect emotional and aesthetic responses to music?

Abbigail M Fleckenstein, Mariola Paruzel-Czachura, Katarzyna Pypno-Blajda, Henna-Riikka Peltola, Jonna K Vuoskoski

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Abbigail M FleckensteinDepartment of Psychology, University of Oslo, RITMO Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies in Rhythm, Time and Motion, Oslo, Norway.ORCID https://orcid.org/0009-0003-1835-2098
Mariola Paruzel-CzachuraPenn Center for Neuroaesthetics, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA.
Katarzyna Pypno-BlajdaDepartment of Psychology, University College of Professional Education, Wrocław, Poland.
Henna-Riikka PeltolaDepartment of Music, Art and Culture Studies, Finnish Centre of Excellence in Music, Mind, Body and Brain, University of Jyväskylä, Jyväskylä, Finland.
Jonna K VuoskoskiDepartment of Musicology & Psychology, University of Oslo, RITMO Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies in Rhythm, Time and Motion, Oslo, Norway.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

When listening to novel music, extra-musical information about the musician may influence a listener's evaluations of the music. Here, we studied the extent to which information about the musicians' Humanness, Morality and Sex, conveyed by their vocal timbre and tessitura, affected listeners' emotional and aesthetic responses to their music. This online, pre-registered experiment followed a 2 (Humanness: Human vs. AI model) × 2 (Vocalist Sex: Male vs. Female) × 3 (Morality: Moral, Immoral, Neutral) mixed factorial design. Participants (

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aesthetic responsesAI-generated musicemotionsmoral informationmusic cognition

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PMID42904303
PMCPMC13682890

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