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Diurnal fluctuations in musical preference [PDF]
Royal Society Open Science, 2021 The rhythm of human life is governed by diurnal cycles, as a result of endogenous circadian processes evolved to maximize biological fitness. Even complex aspects of daily life, such as affective states, exhibit systematic diurnal patterns which in turn ...
Ole Adrian Heggli +2 more
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Music Preferences, Functions of Music, and Adolescents’ Personality Traits
Inovacije u Nastavi, 2023 Music plays a significant developmental role in the life of adolescents and has different functions in the life of an individual. Listening to music is one of the most important activities of adolescents, while their music preferences reflect their ...
Daniela Petrušić +2 more
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Spontaneous motor tempo contributes to preferred music tempo regardless of music familiarity
Frontiers in Psychology, 2022 Music, and listening to music, has occurred throughout human history. However, it remains unclear why people prefer some types of music over others. To understand why we listen to a certain music, previous studies have focused on preferred tempo.
Kyoko Hine +7 more
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Students' music preferences towards classical music
Metodički obzori, 2021 Music preferences can be related to many groups of factors, as LeBlanc’s Interactive theory of music preference suggests. In this research four factors from the model were explored in relation to students’ preference towards classical music: students' age, their gender, their attendance of extracurricular music activities and familiarity of music ...
Mendiković Đukić, Antonella +2 more
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Predicting the Preference for Sad Music: The Role of Gender, Personality, and Audio Features
IEEE Access, 2021 The “tragedy paradox” of music, avoiding experiencing negative emotions but enjoying the sadness portrayed in music, has attracted a great deal of academic attention in recent decades.
Liuchang Xu, Ye Zheng, Dayu Xu, Liang Xu
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The Role of Trait and State Absorption in the Enjoyment of Music. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2016 Little is known about the role of state versus trait characteristics on our enjoyment of music. The aim of this study was to investigate the influence of state and trait absorption upon preference for music, particularly preference for music that evokes ...
Sarah E Hall +2 more
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Appearance Reveals Music Preferences
Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 2021 Disclosing idiosyncratic preferences can help to broker new social interactions. For instance, strangers exchange music preferences to signal their identities, values, and preferences. Recognizing that people’s physical appearances guide their decisions about social engagement, we examined whether cues to people’s music preferences in their physical ...
Laura Tian +2 more
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Frontiers in Psychology, 2023 Based on previous literature, the present study examines the effects of background music on English reading comprehension using eye tracking techniques. All the participants, whose first language was Chinese, were selected from a foreign language college
Yankui Su +3 more
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Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 2021 Previous work demonstrates that music with more surprising chords tends to be perceived as more enjoyable than music with more conventional harmonic structures. In that work, harmonic surprise was computed based upon a static distribution of chords. This
Scott A. Miles +8 more
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Humanities & Social Sciences Communications, 2023 This work shows that positive old music listening surged during the early phase of the Covid-19 pandemic, suggesting a rise in preference for nostalgia and positivity in music.
Timothy Yu-Cheong Yeung
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