The Effects of Tempo and Familiarity on Children's Affective Interpretation of Music

Emotion

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 618-622

  Mote, Jasmine ^a  

^a OBERLIN COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Affect; Children; Development; Emotion; Music; Nursery songs; Preschoolers; Tempo

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD; EMOTION; FEMALE; HAPPINESS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MUSIC; NORMAL HUMAN; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PSYCHOANALYSIS;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; AFFECT; CHILD PSYCHOLOGY; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE; FEMALE; HUMANS; JUDGMENT; MALE; MUSIC; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY);

EID: 79959288672     PISSN: 15283542     EISSN: 19311516     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0022573     Document Type: Article

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