0000000001116123
AUTHOR
Caroline Cohrdes
Supplemental_Material – Supplemental material for “The sound of affect”: Age differences in perceiving valence and arousal in music and their relation to music characteristics and momentary mood
Supplemental material, Supplemental_Material for “The sound of affect”: Age differences in perceiving valence and arousal in music and their relation to music characteristics and momentary mood by Caroline Cohrdes, Cornelia Wrzus, Melanie Wald-Fuhrmann and Michaela Riediger in Musicae Scientiae
“The sound of affect”: Age differences in perceiving valence and arousal in music and their relation to music characteristics and momentary mood
Throughout life, music plays an important role in individuals’ everyday affective experiences. Previous findings suggest that preferences for, and perceptions of, music with distinct affective qualities might differ for individuals from different age groups. To date, however, evidence from age-comparative studies across adulthood is rare and little is known about the mechanisms that contribute to age differences in music perception. In an age-heterogeneous sample ranging from adolescence to old adulthood ( n = 50; 12–75 years), we investigated differences in affect perceptions of 147 sounds and 465 songs of various musical styles and dates of origin, as well as the respective roles of musi…