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| Title |
Music evokes vicarious emotions in listeners
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|---|---|
| Published in |
Frontiers in Psychology, May 2014
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| DOI | 10.3389/fpsyg.2014.00431 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Ai Kawakami, Kiyoshi Furukawa, Kazuo Okanoya |
| Abstract |
Why do we listen to sad music? We seek to answer this question using a psychological approach. It is possible to distinguish perceived emotions from those that are experienced. Therefore, we hypothesized that, although sad music is perceived as sad, listeners actually feel (experience) pleasant emotions concurrent with sadness. This hypothesis was supported, which led us to question whether sadness in the context of art is truly an unpleasant emotion. While experiencing sadness may be unpleasant, it may also be somewhat pleasant when experienced in the context of art, for example, when listening to sad music. We consider musically evoked emotion vicarious, as we are not threatened when we experience it, in the way that we can be during the course of experiencing emotion in daily life. When we listen to sad music, we experience vicarious sadness. In this review, we propose two sides to sadness by suggesting vicarious emotion. |
X Demographics
The data shown below were collected from the profiles of 15 X users who shared this research output. Click here to find out more about how the information was compiled.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 3 | 20% |
| United Kingdom | 3 | 20% |
| Switzerland | 1 | 7% |
| Bangladesh | 1 | 7% |
| Unknown | 7 | 47% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 12 | 80% |
| Scientists | 2 | 13% |
| Science communicators (journalists, bloggers, editors) | 1 | 7% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 133 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 2 | 2% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | <1% |
| Israel | 1 | <1% |
| Japan | 1 | <1% |
| Philippines | 1 | <1% |
| Unknown | 127 | 95% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Bachelor | 26 | 20% |
| Student > Master | 23 | 17% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 18 | 14% |
| Researcher | 13 | 10% |
| Professor | 9 | 7% |
| Other | 15 | 11% |
| Unknown | 29 | 22% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Psychology | 51 | 38% |
| Computer Science | 12 | 9% |
| Arts and Humanities | 8 | 6% |
| Neuroscience | 7 | 5% |
| Social Sciences | 6 | 5% |
| Other | 14 | 11% |
| Unknown | 35 | 26% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 51. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 24 May 2023.
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#1,682
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#7,577
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#34
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