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Explaining the enjoyment of negative emotions evoked by the arts: The need to consider empathy and other underlying mechanisms of emotion induction (2017)
Journal Article
Vuoskoski, J., & Eerola, T. (2017). Explaining the enjoyment of negative emotions evoked by the arts: The need to consider empathy and other underlying mechanisms of emotion induction. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 40, 42-43. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0140525x1700187x

Any model aiming to explain the enjoyment of negative emotions in the context of the arts should consider how works of art are able to induce emotional responses in the first place. For instance, research on empathy and the arts suggests that the psy... Read More about Explaining the enjoyment of negative emotions evoked by the arts: The need to consider empathy and other underlying mechanisms of emotion induction.

An Integrative Review of the Enjoyment of Sadness Associated with Music (2017)
Journal Article
Eerola, T., Vuoskoski, J., Peltola, H., Putkinen, V., & Schäfer, K. (2017). An Integrative Review of the Enjoyment of Sadness Associated with Music. Physics of Life Reviews, 25, 100-121. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.plrev.2017.11.016

The recent surge of interest towards the paradoxical pleasure produced by sad music has generated a handful of theories and an array of empirical explorations on the topic. However, none of these have attempted to weigh the existing evidence in a sys... Read More about An Integrative Review of the Enjoyment of Sadness Associated with Music.

Age trends in musical preferences in adulthood: 3. Perceived musical attributes as intrinsic determinants of preferences (2017)
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Bonneville-Roussy, A., & Eerola, T. (2018). Age trends in musical preferences in adulthood: 3. Perceived musical attributes as intrinsic determinants of preferences. Musicae Scientiae, 22(3), 394-414. https://doi.org/10.1177/1029864917718606

Increased age has been found to be associated with differences in musical preferences in adulthood. In past research, these differences were mostly attributed to changes in the social context. However, these influences were small and a large proporti... Read More about Age trends in musical preferences in adulthood: 3. Perceived musical attributes as intrinsic determinants of preferences.

Extracting Coarse Body Movements from Video in Music Performance: A Comparison of Automated Computer Vision Techniques with Motion Capture Data (2017)
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Jakubowski, K., Eerola, T., Alborno, P., Volpe, G., Camurri, A., & Clayton, M. (2017). Extracting Coarse Body Movements from Video in Music Performance: A Comparison of Automated Computer Vision Techniques with Motion Capture Data. Frontiers in digital humanities, 4, Article 9. https://doi.org/10.3389/fdigh.2017.00009

The measurement and tracking of body movement within musical performances can provide valuable sources of data for studying interpersonal interaction and coordination between musicians. The continued development of tools to extract such data from vid... Read More about Extracting Coarse Body Movements from Video in Music Performance: A Comparison of Automated Computer Vision Techniques with Motion Capture Data.

Group Rumination: Social Interactions Around Music in People with Depression (2017)
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Garrido, S., Eerola, T., & McFerran, K. (2017). Group Rumination: Social Interactions Around Music in People with Depression. Frontiers in Psychology, 8, Article 490. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2017.00490

One of the most important roles that music serves in human society is the promotion of social relationships and group cohesion. In general, emotional experiences tend to be amplified in group settings through processes of social feedback. However, pr... Read More about Group Rumination: Social Interactions Around Music in People with Depression.

Music and Its Inductive Power: A Psychobiological and Evolutionary Approach to Musical Emotions (2017)
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Reybrouck, M., & Eerola, T. (2017). Music and Its Inductive Power: A Psychobiological and Evolutionary Approach to Musical Emotions. Frontiers in Psychology, 8, Article 494. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2017.00494

The aim of this contribution is to broaden the concept of musical meaning from an abstract and emotionally neutral cognitive representation to an emotion-integrating description that is related to the evolutionary approach to music. Starting from the... Read More about Music and Its Inductive Power: A Psychobiological and Evolutionary Approach to Musical Emotions.

The Pleasure Evoked by Sad Music Is Mediated by Feelings of Being Moved (2017)
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Vuoskoski, J., & Eerola, T. (2017). The Pleasure Evoked by Sad Music Is Mediated by Feelings of Being Moved. Frontiers in Psychology, 8, Article 439. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2017.00439

Why do we enjoy listening to music that makes us sad? This question has puzzled music psychologists for decades, but the paradox of “pleasurable sadness” remains to be solved. Recent findings from a study investigating the enjoyment of sad films sugg... Read More about The Pleasure Evoked by Sad Music Is Mediated by Feelings of Being Moved.

Music-induced positive mood broadens the scope of auditory attention (2017)
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Putkinen, V., Makkonen, T., & Eerola, T. (2017). Music-induced positive mood broadens the scope of auditory attention. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 12(7), 1159-1168. https://doi.org/10.1093/scan/nsx038

Previous studies indicate that positive mood broadens the scope of visual attention, which can manifest as heightened distractibility. We used event-related potentials (ERP) to investigate whether music-induced positive mood has comparable effects on... Read More about Music-induced positive mood broadens the scope of auditory attention.

Music perception in historical audiences: Towards predictive models of music perception in historical audiences (2017)
Journal Article
Pearce, M., & Eerola, T. (2017). Music perception in historical audiences: Towards predictive models of music perception in historical audiences. Disiplinlerarası müzik araştırmaları dergisi, 8(1-2), 91-120. https://doi.org/10.4407/jims.2016.12.004

Background in Historical Musicology. In addition to making inferences about historical performance practice, it is interesting to ask questions about the experience of historical listeners. In particular, how might their perception vary from that of... Read More about Music perception in historical audiences: Towards predictive models of music perception in historical audiences.