Liking for happy- and sad-sounding music: Effects of exposure

By E. G. Schellenberg, Isabelle Peretz, S. Vieillard. 2008

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Subfields: Cognitive Neuroscience, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology

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Adaptive and maladaptive attraction to negative emotions in music (2013, background): “Schellenberg et al. (2008) found that overexposure can affect a liking of sad music, but that in the case of incidental listening people tend to like it as much as happy music.”
Liking unfamiliar music: Effects of felt emotion and individual differences. (2012, background): “We know that the appeal of sad-sounding music increases when listeners are fatigued or in a negative mood state (Schellenberg et al., 2008), or when they are feeling sad (Hunter, Schellenberg, & Griffith, in press).”
Singing One's Way to Self-Regulation: The Role of Early Music and Movement Curricula and Private Speech (2011, background): ““sad” sounding music) and different tempos in music has been found to facilitate not only children's ability to recognize such emotional expressions in music but also similar constructs in adults (Juslin & Laukka, 2003 ; Schellenberg, Peretz, & Vieillard, 2008 ).”
Current Emotion Research in Music Psychology (2015, background): “Overexposure to a piece within a short time frame leads to decreases in liking (Hunter & Schellenberg, 2011; Schellenberg et al., 2008; Szpunar et al., 2004).”
Music May Reduce Loneliness and Act as Social Surrogate for a Friend: Evidence from an Experimental Listening Study (2020, background): “People experiencing sadness sometimes prefer to listen to happy or calming music (e.g., Knobloch & Zillmann, 2002; Schellenberg et al., 2008) and sometimes they seek music that reinforces their sadness (e.”
Feelings and Perceptions of Happiness and Sadness Induced by Music: Similarities, Differences, and Mixed Emotions (2010, background): “Our results also shed light on an issue that was tangential to our central goals: why do listeners like sad music? Although experimental participants routinely prefer happy- over sad-sounding music (Gosselin et al., 2005; Hunter et al., 2008; Husain et al., 2002; Khalfa et al., 2008; Schellenberg et”