The pleasure evoked by sad music is mediated by feelings of being moved
Vuoskoski and Eerola: in Experiment 1, 308 participants heard 5 sad excerpts and the positive link between felt sadness and liking was fully mediated by being moved; in Experiment 2, 27 excerpts varied in sadness and beauty and the account in which movingness mediates the effect of sadness on liking received stronger support than one in which beauty mediates. Frontiers in Psychology 8, 439, 2017.
Vuoskoski and Eerola: in Experiment 1, 308 participants heard 5 sad excerpts and the positive link between felt sadness and liking was fully mediated by being moved; in Experiment 2, 27 excerpts varied in sadness and beauty and the account in which movingness mediates the effect of sadness on liking received stronger support than one in which beauty mediates. Frontiers in Psychology 8, 439, 2017.
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Vuoskoski, J. K., & Eerola, T. (2017). The pleasure evoked by sad music is mediated by feelings of being moved. Frontiers in Psychology, 8, 439. doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2017.00439 https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2017.00439