Influence of trait empathy on the emotion evoked by sad music and on the preference for it

Some people experience pleasant emotion when listening to sad music. Therefore, they can enjoy listening to it. In the current study, we aimed to investigate such apparently paradoxical emotional mechanisms and focused on the influence of individuals’ trait empathy, which has been reported to associ...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Kawakami, Ai, Katahira, Kenji
Format: Online
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2015
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4621277/