Capturing emotions: experience sampling at live music events

Capturing Emotions: Experience Sampling at Live Music Events

INTRODUCTION This research takes its lead from the work of Heath and Feldwick (2007) who convincingly argue that emotional resonance with marketing messages is significantly more effective than rational information processing through knowledge transmission. Starting from this premise we have selected an environment (live music events) where emotions are heightened and investigated methods for c...

Lyrics, Music, and Emotions

In this paper, we explore the classification of emotions in songs, using the music and the lyrics representation of the songs. We introduce a novel corpus of music and lyrics, consisting of 100 songs annotated for emotions. We show that textual and musical features can both be successfully used for emotion recognition in songs. Moreover, through comparative experiments, we show that the joint u...

Expanding the topography of social anxiety. An experience-sampling assessment of positive emotions, positive events, and emotion suppression.

The relation between social anxiety and hedonic activity remains poorly understood. From a self-regulatory perspective, we hypothesized that socially anxious individuals experience diminished positive experiences and events on days when they are unable to manage socially anxious feelings adequately. In this 21-day experience-sampling study, we constructed daily measures of social anxiety and em...

How Does Music Elicit Emotions?

An experience sampling study of emotional reactions to music: listener, music, and situation.

The Experience Sampling Method was used to explore emotions to music as they naturally occurred in everyday life, with a focus on the prevalence of different musical emotions and how such emotions are related to various factors in the listener, the music, and the situation. Thirty-two college students, 20 to 31 years old, carried a palmtop that emitted a sound signal seven times per day at rand...