APS

30th APS Annual Convention · 2018

How Does a Rap Music with Encouraging Lyrics Affect Mood?

San Francisco, CA · May 2018

Poster · Personality/Emotion

  • Takashi Morikawa
    Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • Kei Hikoji
    Wakayama University
  • Shinya Kameshima
    Kansai University of Welfare Sciences
  • Noriko Nagata
    Kwansei Gakuin University

Abstract

This study examined how rap music with positive lyrics affected the mood of 145 college students. Participants listened to the music with three conditions, and completed three scales at pre and post the music. Results of one-way ANOVA on the scales showed that there were main effects on motivation.

Music and Arts

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