Changing the Tune: Listeners Like Music that Expresses a Contrasting Emotion.

Front Psychol · 2012 · PMC3529308 · PMID 23269918

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Although the association between intensity and liking was highly significant, F (1, 151.45) = 122.67, p < 0.001, the interaction between emotion type and presentation frequency was eliminated.

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approached significancep = 0.062so close (0.05 < p ≤ 0.1)

Liking ratings did not differ between the background and the contrasting emotion after one or two presentations, but they approached significance after four presentations, F (1, 46) = 3.66, p = 0.062, partial η 2 = 0.07, and differed significantly after eight presentations, F (1, 46) = 5.17, p = 0.028, partial η 2 = 0.10.

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