Liking and Identifying Emotionally Expressive Music: Age and Gender Differences

Autor/inn/en	Hunter, Patrick G.; Schellenberg, E. Glenn; Stalinski, Stephanie M.
Titel	Liking and Identifying Emotionally Expressive Music: Age and Gender Differences
Quelle	In: Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 110 (2011) 1, S.80-93 (14 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0022-0965
DOI	10.1016/j.jecp.2011.04.001
Schlagwörter	Music; Identification; Gender Differences; Psychological Patterns; Age Differences; Emotional Response; Children; Adults; Fear + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Musik; Identifikation; Identifizierung; Geschlechterkonflikt; Age; Difference; Age difference; Altersunterschied; Emotionales Verhalten; Child; Kind; Kinder; Furcht
Abstract	Adults and children 5, 8, and 11 years of age listened to short excerpts of unfamiliar music that sounded happy, scary, peaceful, or sad. Listeners initially rated how much they liked each excerpt. They subsequently made a forced-choice judgment about the emotion that each excerpt conveyed. Identification accuracy was higher for young girls than for young boys, but both genders reached adult-like levels by age 11. High-arousal emotions (happiness and fear) were better identified than low-arousal emotions (peacefulness and sadness), and this advantage was exaggerated among younger children. Whereas children of all ages preferred excerpts depicting high-arousal emotions, adults favored excerpts depicting positive emotions (happiness and peacefulness). A preference for positive emotions over negative emotions was also evident among females of all ages. As identification accuracy improved, liking for positively valenced music increased among 5- and 8-year-olds but decreased among 11-year-olds. (Contains 6 figures and 1 table.) (As Provided).
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