Attitudes, which can be thought of as the sum individuals' thoughts, feelings, and beliefs concerning an attitude object, inform how people interact with world around them. An understanding attitudes may play important role in promoting desirable human behavior, studies should incorporated into any behavior-change intervention. One framework for is ABC, or “tripartite” model, says that affect (...

Starting from the assumption that meaning in electroacoustic music is an outcome of the listener’s mental processes, it is the goal of this essay to explicate the mental processes whereby feeling and emotion contribute to meaning when listening to electroacoustic music. This essay begins with a broad consideration of feeling and emotion with an eye toward artistic experience, spanning from basi...