Individual differences in the enjoyment of negative emotion in music: A literature review and experiment

Music Perception

Volumn 28, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 279-295

  Garrido, Sandra ^a   Schubert, Emery ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

Absorption; Dissociation; Individual differences; Music empathy; Sad music

Indexed keywords

EID: 79954520746     PISSN: 07307829     EISSN: 15338312     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1525/MP.2011.28.3.279     Document Type: Article

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