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Does anyone know of any studies or experiments carried out regarding the relationship between art/music and the emotions?

Asked by nebule (16452points) April 12th, 2010

I’m trying to find some evidence for an essay I’m writing on Emotions and I’d like to incorporate some information on how music and art affects the emotions.

I’m particularly thinking about how they can evoke different emotions by listening to or looking at different types of art and music respectively, in correlation with us having any beliefs or judgements about it.

If, for example I looked at a piece of abstract art and I could say it made me feel happy…whether there would be a reason for that…embedded in belief, knowledge or judgement etc. or whether the emotion just existed separate from any cognitive function. And then perhaps whether the same piece of art evoked the same emotions in different people…not sure entirely but some kind of experiment like this…

Does anyone know of any research projects, information, theories, tests etc. that could help me?

Hey actually maybe I could create my own experiment…with my own art…. hmmmm interesting…

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