Emotional processing in music: Study in affective responses to tonal modulation in controlled harmonic progressions and real music.

Marina Korsakova-Kreyn; W. Jay Dowling

doi:10.1037/pmu0000029

Emotional processing in music: Study in affective responses to tonal modulation in controlled harmonic progressions and real music.

Psychomusicology Music Mind and Brain ◽

10.1037/pmu0000029 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 24 (1) ◽

pp. 4-20 ◽

Cited By ~ 4

Author(s):

Marina Korsakova-Kreyn ◽

W. Jay Dowling

Keyword(s):

Emotional Processing ◽

Affective Responses ◽

Tonal Modulation ◽

Music Study

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Racial Prejudice Predicts Less Desire to Learn About White Privilege

Social Psychology ◽

10.1027/1864-9335/a000314 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 48 (5) ◽

pp. 310-319 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

John G. Conway ◽

Nikolette P. Lipsey ◽

Gabrielle Pogge ◽

Kate A. Ratliff

Keyword(s):

White Privilege ◽

Racial Prejudice ◽

Affective Responses ◽

White People ◽

Total N ◽

Desire To Change

Abstract. White people often experience unpleasant emotions in response to learning about White privilege ( Phillips & Lowery, 2015 ; Pinterits, Poteat, & Spanierman, 2009 ). Two studies (total N = 1,310) examined how race attitudes relate to White people’s desires to avoid or learn information about White privilege. White participants completed measures of their race attitudes, desire to change White privilege, and their desire to avoid learning information about White privilege. Study 1 showed that participants who preferred their racial in-group reported less desire to change White privilege and greater desire to avoid learning information about White privilege. Inconsistent with expectations, Study 2 showed that participants who anticipated negative affective responses to learning about White privilege reported greater desire to change White privilege.

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Application of Information Introduced to Dynamic Message Processing and Enjoyment

Journal of Media Psychology Theories Methods and Applications ◽

10.1027/1864-1105/a000195 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 30 (4) ◽

pp. 196-206 ◽

Cited By ~ 4

Author(s):

Byungho Park ◽

Rachel L. Bailey

Keyword(s):

Resource Allocation ◽

Recognition Memory ◽

Emotional Processing ◽

Orienting Response ◽

Structural Features ◽

Cognitive Resources ◽

Coding System ◽

Message Complexity ◽

Cognitive Resource ◽

Cognitive Overload

Abstract. In an effort to quantify message complexity in such a way that predictions regarding the moment-to-moment cognitive and emotional processing of viewers would be made, Lang and her colleagues devised the coding system information introduced (or ii). This coding system quantifies the number of structural features that are known to consume cognitive resources and considers it in combination with the number of camera changes (cc) in the video, which supply additional cognitive resources owing to their elicitation of an orienting response. This study further validates ii using psychophysiological responses that index cognitive resource allocation and recognition memory. We also pose two novel hypotheses regarding the confluence of controlled and automatic processing and the effect of cognitive overload on enjoyment of messages. Thirty television advertisements were selected from a pool of 172 (all 20 s in length) based on their ii/cc ratio and ratings for their arousing content. Heart rate change over time showed significant deceleration (indicative of increased cognitive resource allocation) for messages with greater ii/cc ratios. Further, recognition memory worsened as ii/cc increased. It was also found that message complexity increases both automatic and controlled allocations to processing, and that the most complex messages may have created a state of cognitive overload, which was received as enjoyable by the participants in this television context.

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