Misery loves company: Mood-congruent emotional responding to music

Emotion

Volumn 11, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 1068-1072

  Hunter, Patrick G ^a   Schellenberg, E Glenn ^a   Griffith, Andrew T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Mood congruency; Music and emotion; Music and mood; Music preferences

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; EMOTION; HUMAN; MOOD; MOOD CONGRUENT; MUSIC; SCORING SYSTEM; STIMULUS;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; AFFECT; EMOTIONS; HAPPINESS; HUMANS; MUSIC; PHOTIC STIMULATION; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY);

EID: 80053979787     PISSN: 15283542     EISSN: 19311516     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0023749     Document Type: Article

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