Emotion elicitation during music listening: Subjective self-reports, facial expression, and autonomic reactivity
Fuentes-Sánchez N, Pastor R, Escrig MA, Elipe-Miravet M, Pastor MC
Psychophysiology · 15 citations
How it was studied
- Design
- In vitro/mechanistic study (classified by our AI screen)
- Studied in
- People
- Main outcome
- Health markers and function
Who paid for it
- Funding
- Possibly industry funded
- Industry group
- American Concrete Institute Foundation
- Government
- Generalitat Valenciana
- University or hospital
- Universitat Jaume I
- Grants
- Generalitat Valenciana (Predoctoral Grant ACIF/2018/240); Universitat Jaume I (POSDOC-A/2018/16); Universitat Jaume I (Grant UJI‐B2019‐34); Generalitat Valenciana (ACIF/2018/240); Universitat Jaume I (UJI-B2019-34)
Based on 3 listed funder(s).
Publication
- Published
- 2021-06-18 · Psychophysiology · vol. 58 · issue 9 · p. e13884
- Publisher
- Wiley
- Cited
- 41 citations · more than 87% of similar papers · 2.2× the field average
- References
- 96 works
- Access
- Open access (hybrid journal) · CC-BY-NC-ND
- Research areas
- Neuroscience and Music Perception · Music Therapy and Health · Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes
- Keywords
- Sadness, Psychology, Anger, Arousal, Happiness, Valence (chemistry), Facial expression, Feeling, Active listening, Cognitive psychology, Stimulus (psychology), Facial electromyography, Psychophysiology, Audiology, Developmental psychology, Social psychology, Communication
- MeSH
- facial muscles, autonomic nervous system, humans, electromyography, facial expression, emotions, auditory perception, galvanic skin response, heart rate, music, adolescent, adult, female, male, young adult, self report
5 authors
From ES
- Nieves Fuentes‐SánchezUniversitat Jaume I
- Raúl PastorUniversitat Jaume I
- Miguel A. EscrigUniversitat Jaume I
- Marcel Elipe‐MiravetUniversitat Jaume I
- M. Carmen Pastor · correspondingUniversitat Jaume I
Abstract
The use of music as emotional stimuli in experimental studies has grown in recent years. However, prior studies have mainly focused on self-reports and central measures, with a few works exploring the time course of psychophysiological correlates. Moreover, most of the previous research has been carried out either from the dimensional or categorical model but not combining both approaches to emotions. This study aimed to investigate subjective and physiological correlates of emotion elicitation through music, following the three-dimensional and the discrete emotion model. A sample of 50 healthy volunteers (25 women) took part in this experiment by listening to 42 film music excerpts (14 pleasant, 14 unpleasant, 14 neutral) presented during 8 s, while peripheral measures were continuously recorded. After music offset, affective dimensions (valence, energy arousal, and tension arousal) as well as discrete emotions (happiness, sadness, tenderness, fear, and anger) were collected using a 9-point scale. Results showed an effect of the music category on subjective and psychophysiological measures. In peripheral physiology, greater electrodermal activity, heart rate acceleration, and zygomatic responses, besides lower corrugator amplitude, were observed for pleasant excerpts in comparison to neutral and unpleasant music, from 2 s after stimulus onset until the end of its duration. Overall, our results add evidence for the efficacy of standardized film music excerpts to evoke powerful emotions in laboratory settings; thus, opening a path to explore interventions based on music in pathologies with underlying emotion deregulatory processes.
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