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2028.18 The effect ole of culture on recognition of music emotions, Deqing Tao, South China
Normal University, China
99 participants (43 males, 56 females), 68 college students as high-education group and 31
workers without high education as low-education group, displayed obvious difference of ability in
identifying the emotional types of the 20 melodies (10 from Sino-music and 10 from West-music).
The findings show: (1) it is easier for Chinese listeners to identify the emotional types of
Sino-music melodies than that of West-music melodies, (2) high-education group can identify
some types of music emotion (such as, angry, calm and fearful) much better than low-education
group. This findings suggests that culture plays an important role on recognition of music
emotion.
2028.19 Sex difference in emotion response to music, Wai Shing Tse, Ka Kin Simon Tsui, City
University of Hong Kong, China
Women are more likely to develop depression than men. This might be due to diffeences in their
response to emotive-stimuli. 132 Chinese healthy volunteers were recruited for a randomized,
double-blinded, crossover study of mood responses to sad and happy music with a one-hour
interval in-between. Basline and post-music moods were measured by the Mood Rating Scale. A
significant sex difference in response to music was found in the sad music condition. Females
reporrted significantly a greater degree of negative emotion than males. Further understanding of
the gender-differences in emotion response might shed light on the understanding of
sex-differences in depression.
2028.20 Research on autobiographical memories under music mood induction, Muneyoshi
Hyodo, Rui Nouchi, Chuo University, Japan
We investigated the relation between memory and mood. The college students who was induced
mood(positive or negative) by music, recalled the events of their junior high school and high
school days, and they rated their events recalled positive, negative or neutral. We compared with
the number of their events of junior high school days and their high school days, many negative
events in their junior high school days were recolled, But there was no statistically significant. As
a whole, the rate of positive, negative, and neutral was 5:3:2. This consisted with prior research.
2028.21 Mood congruent effect by modified autobiographical retrieve task, Rui Nouchi,
Muneyoshi Hyodo, Chuo University Japan
When self-referent task is performed, it is known that mood congruent effect will occur. We
investigated mood congruent effect by modified autobiographical retrieve task. The participants
were assigned to positive or negative mood states at random. Participants were presented the trait
adjectives (positive, negative, neutral). They judged whether they would be difficult to recall the
autobiographical memory about the words. After this task, they were given an incidental free
recall test. The mood congruent effect was not seen in the number of recall.
2028.22 Culture and solitude: Meaning and significance of being alone, Yao Wang 1 , James
Averill 1 , Louise Sundararajan 2 , 1 University of Massachusetts, USA; 2 Forensic Unit, Rochester
Psychiatric Center, USA
Experiences of solitude can be highly emotional, from the despair of loneliness to the bliss of
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