Music is a universal feature of human societies, partly owing to its power to evoke strong
emotions and influence moods. During the past decade, the investigation of the neural …

Experimental emotion inductions provide the strongest causal evidence of the effects of
emotions on psychological and physiological outcomes. In the present qualitative review, we …

Autonomic nervous system (ANS) activity is viewed as a major component of the emotion
response in many recent theories of emotion. Positions on the degree of specificity of ANS …

Many group-living animals, humans included, occasionally synchronize their behavior with
that of conspecifics. Social psychology and neuroscience have attempted to explain this …

The primary aim of the present study was to systematically compare perceived emotions in
music using two different theoretical frameworks: the discrete emotion model, and the …

The field of music and emotion research has grown rapidly and diversified during the last
decade. This has led to a certain degree of confusion and inconsistency between competing …

Music can powerfully evoke and modulate emotions and moods, along with changes in
heart activity, blood pressure (BP), and breathing. Although there is great heterogeneity in …

Sadness is generally seen as a negative emotion, a response to distressing and adverse
situations. In an aesthetic context, however, sadness is often associated with some degree …

Background Listening to music is amongst the most rewarding experiences for humans.
Music has no functional resemblance to other rewarding stimuli, and has no demonstrated …

Music is one of the most pleasant human experiences, even though it has no direct
biological advantage. However little is known about individual differences in how people …