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Relations between perceived affect and liking for melodies and visual designs.
Human Evolution and Cognition Research Group, University of the Balearic Islands, Spain;Department of Cognition, Development and Educational Psychology, Institute of Neurosciences, University of Barcelona, Spain.ORCID iD: 0000-0002-0460-6793
KTH, School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS), Intelligent systems, Speech, Music and Hearing, TMH.ORCID iD: 0000-0003-2926-6518
KTH, School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS), Human Centered Technology, Media Technology and Interaction Design, MID.ORCID iD: 0000-0003-1679-6018
2023 (English)In: Emotion, ISSN 1528-3542, E-ISSN 1931-1516, Vol. 23, no 6, p. 1584-1605Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

Sensory valuation is a fundamental aspect of cognition. It involves assigning hedonic value to a stimulus based on its sensory information considering personal and contextual factors. Hedonic values (e.g., liking) can be deemed affective states that motivate behavior, but the relations between hedonic and affective judgments have yet to be established. To fill this gap, we investigated the relations between stimulus features, perceived affect, and liking across domains and with potentially relevant individual traits. Fifty-eight participants untrained in music and visual art rated their liking and perceived valence and arousal for visual designs and short melodies varying in balance, contour, symmetry, or complexity and filled out several questionnaires. First, we examined group-level relations between perceived affect and liking across domains. Second, we inspected the relations between the individual use of musical and visual properties in judgments of liking and perceived affect-that is, between aesthetic and perceived-affect sensitivities. Third, we inquired into the influence of information-related (need for cognition, or NFC) and affect-related (need for emotion) traits on individual sensitivities. We found domain-specific effects of the stimulus features on liking, a linear association between valence and liking, the inverted-U model of arousal and liking, a binary profile of musical aesthetic sensitivities, and a modulatory effect of NFC on how people use stimulus properties in their hedonic and affective judgments. In summary, the results suggest that hedonic value is primarily computed from domain-specific sensory information partially moderated by NFC. 

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American Psychological Association (APA) , 2023. Vol. 23, no 6, p. 1584-1605
Keywords [en]
aesthetic sensitivity, visual, liking, music, sensory valuation
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Computer and Information Sciences
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URN: urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-324848DOI: 10.1037/emo0001141ISI: 000866452300001PubMedID: 36227314Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85140782507OAI: oai:DiVA.org:kth-324848DiVA, id: diva2:1744307
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Marianne and Marcus Wallenberg Foundation, 2020.0102
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Available from: 2023-03-17 Created: 2023-03-17 Last updated: 2025-02-18Bibliographically approved

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