Can sad music really make you sad? indirect measures of affective states induced by music and autobiographical memories

Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 204-213

  Vuoskoski, Jonna K ^a   Eerola, Tuomas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF JYVÄSKYLÄ   (Finland)

Author keywords

Empathy; Music induced emotion; Sadness

Indexed keywords

EID: 84874002078     PISSN: 19313896     EISSN: 1931390X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0026937     Document Type: Article

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