Positive and Negative Hedonic Contrast With Musical Stimuli

Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts

Volumn 2, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 171-174

  Parker, Scott ^a   Bascom, Jesse ^a   Rabinovitz, Brian ^a   Zellner, Debra ^b  

^a AMERICAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MONTCLAIR STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

aesthetics; contrast; hedonics; music

Indexed keywords

EID: 77949860230     PISSN: 19313896     EISSN: 1931390X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/1931-3896.2.3.171     Document Type: Article

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