The Relative Utility of ‘Pleasantness’ and ‘Liking’ Dimensions in Predicting the Emotions Expressed by Music

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The influence of emotion, locus of emotion and familiarity upon preference in music (2007, methodology): “North and Hargreaves (1997b) and Ritossa and Rickard (2004) used popular music as the stimuli in their studies.”
Songs and emotions: are lyrics and melodies equal partners? (2006, background): “More recently, Ritossa and Rickard (2004) have also found support for the circumplex theory of emotion while demonstrating that ‘pleasantness’ was a more useful predictor of emotions expressed by music than was ‘liking’.”
Using music to induce emotions: Influences of musical preference and absorption (2008, methodology): “Studies of musically induced emotions in laboratory settings by means of behavioural (Bigand et al., 2005; Carlton and MacDonald, 2003; Ritossa and Rikkard, 2004), peripheral physiological (Gupta and Gupta, 2005; Kreutz et al., 2002; Krumhansl, 1997; Nyklicek et al., 1997) or brain imaging methods…”
Are the Emotions Expressed in Music Genre-specific? An Audio-based Evaluation of Datasets Spanning Classical, Film, Pop and Mixed Genres (2011, background): “In these studies, the emotions have been defined according to discrete categories within the affect space, typically called emotion quadrants (Ritossa & Rickard, 2004 ; Rawlings & Leow, 2008 ).”