Zhang Jinfan, Yang Taoxi, Bao Yan, Li Hui, Pöppel Ernst, Silveira Sarita
School of Psychological and Cognitive Sciences, and Beijing Key Laboratory of Behaviour and Mental Health, Peking University, 5 Yiheyuan Road, Beijing, 100871, People's Republic of China.
Institute of Medical Psychology and Human Science Center, Ludwig-Maximilian University, Munich, 80336, Germany.
Cogn Process. 2018 Feb;19(1):133-139. doi: 10.1007/s10339-017-0832-7. Epub 2017 Oct 6.
Previous studies have shown that music is a powerful means to convey affective states, but it remains unclear whether and how social context shape the intensity and quality of emotions perceived in music. Using a within-subject design, we studied this question in two experimental settings, i.e. when subjects were alone versus in company of others without direct social interaction or feedback. Non-vocal musical excerpts of the emotional qualities happiness or sadness were rated on arousal and valence dimensions. We found evidence for an amplification of perceived emotion in the solitary listening condition, i.e. happy music was rated as happier and more arousing when nobody else was around and, in an analogous manner, sad music was perceived as sadder. This difference might be explained by a shift of attention in the presence of others. The observed interaction of perceived emotion and social context did not differ for stimuli of different cultural origin.
先前的研究表明，音乐是传达情感状态的有力手段，但社会环境是否以及如何塑造音乐中所感知到的情感强度和质量仍不清楚。我们采用被试内设计，在两种实验情境下研究了这个问题，即当被试独处时以及在没有直接社交互动或反馈的他人陪伴下。让被试对具有幸福或悲伤情感特质的非声乐音乐片段在唤醒度和效价维度上进行评分。我们发现有证据表明，在独自聆听的情境中所感知到的情感会被放大，即当周围没有其他人时，欢快的音乐被评为更欢快且更能唤起情绪，同样，悲伤的音乐被认为更悲伤。这种差异可能是由于他人在场时注意力的转移所致。对于不同文化来源的刺激，所观察到的感知情感与社会环境之间的相互作用并无差异。
