ICPS

2019 International Convention of Psychological Science · 2019

University Students with High Perspective-Taking Ability Prefer Sad Music

Paris, France · March 2019

Posters · Personality/Emotion

  • Ai Kawakami
    Japan Society for the Promotion of Science
  • Kenji Katahira
    Kwansei Gakuin University

Abstract

We’ve been addressing the mystery that people prefer sad music and have founded that 12-year-old children who liked sad music were related with perspective-taking ability as well as fantasy trait. In this study, we targeted university students and examined the relationship among trait empathy, music liking, and emotion induction.

Emotion

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