Music for a Brighter World: Brightness Judgment Bias by Musical Emotion.

PLoS One · 2016 · PMC4749205 · PMID 26863420

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Results and Discussion The grey square was judged as brighter following a musical prime with positive valence and darker following a musical prime with negative valence ( Fig 4 ), as indicated by the highly significant effect of valence, F (1,19) = 12.12, p < 0.005.

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The effect of arousal was marginally significant, F (1,19) = 4.04, p = .059 and the effect size was medium, r = 0.42 There was no significant interaction between valence and arousal, F (1,19) = 0.01, p = .94.

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