Beyond demand: Investigating spontaneous evaluation of chord progressions with the affective priming paradigm

Publication date
2011-09
Document type
Research article
Author
Müller, Mira
Klein, Julian
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Series or journal
Music perception
Periodical volume
29
Periodical issue
1
First page
93
Last page
108
Peer-reviewed
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DDC Class
150 Psychologie
Keyword
Affective priming
Expertise
Music aesthetics
Music induced emotions
Spontaneous evaluation
Abstract
WE ASSUME THAT EVALUATIVE PROCESSES IN RESPONSE TO musical stimuli can occur spontaneously without explicit demand, and that these responses are important for the emergence of emotions evoked by music. Two versions of the affective priming paradigm served to study spontaneous evaluation of music. In Experiment 1, a lexical decision task (LDT) and in Experiments 2 and 3, an evaluative decision task (EDT) was employed. A total of 20 original four-part, five-chord piano sequences with no specified harmonic resolution were used as primes. During the LDT, congruency in valence of prime-target pairs did not affect response times to the targets. However, for the EDT, significant effects of priming were obtained, indicating that spontaneous evaluations of primes must have occurred. No moderating influences of music expertise or any other person variable on spontaneous evaluation were observed. The diverging results of LDT and EDT point to the possibility that spontaneous evaluative processes are sensitive to context manipulations. Results are discussed with reference to harmonic and semantic priming studies. © 2011 by the Regents of the University of California All Rights Reserved.
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DOI der Erstveröffentlichung: 10.1525/mp.2011.29.1.93
DOI der Zweitveröffentlichung: 10.24405/14257
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Mira Müller, Julian Klein, Thomas Jacobsen; Beyond Demand: Investigating Spontaneous Evaluation of Chord Progressions with the Affective Priming Paradigm. Music Perception 1 September 2011; 29 (1): 93–108. doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/mp.2011.29.1.93
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