Energetic music is used for anger downregulation: A cross-cultural differentiation of intensity from rhythmic arousal

IF 2.2 3区 心理学 Q3 PSYCHOLOGY, SOCIAL
Kongmeng Liew, Yukiko Uchida, Hiina Domae, Alethea H. Q. Koh
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Abstract

Music is often used to “soothe the soul,” and one important function of music listening has been emotion regulation. In comparing consumption trends across cultures, past research has shown that individuals in Western countries, with typically higher prevalence of high arousal negative emotions, tend to listen to similarly high arousal rhythmic (danceable) music to cathartically discharge those emotions. However, other studies have shown that Spotify's energy feature, a measure of the intensity-based arousal of a song, indicates the opposite effect: Energy was higher in songs in East Asian top-50 charts than in Western ones. Combining evidence from reanalyses of secondary data (Pilot Analyses 1 and 2), sentiment analyses of lyrics from the US and Singapore (Study 1; N = 87 songs), and an emotion induction experiment in Japan and the US (Study 2; N = 353 participants), we show that collectivistic, East Asian cultures generally prefer songs with higher energy levels, and energetic songs are robustly associated with anger downregulation, over sadness and anxiety downregulation. We speculate that energy, as an intensity-based musical arousal feature, may represent internalizing (control) regulation that one uses to “drown out” anger, which would be more prevalent in East Asian cultures due to sociocultural norms of emotion (non)expression. Conversely, this would be different from the externalizing regulation associated with rhythm-based musical arousal (i.e., danceability).

充满活力的音乐用于调节愤怒:强度和节奏唤醒的跨文化区分
音乐经常被用来“抚慰心灵”,而音乐聆听的一个重要功能就是情绪调节。在比较不同文化的消费趋势时,过去的研究表明,西方国家的个人通常更容易产生高唤醒的负面情绪,他们倾向于听类似的高唤醒节奏(可跳舞)音乐来宣泄这些情绪。然而,其他研究表明,Spotify的能量特征(衡量歌曲基于强度的唤醒)表明了相反的效果:东亚前50名排行榜上的歌曲能量高于西方。结合二次数据重新分析的证据(试点分析1和2),对美国和新加坡歌词的情感分析(研究1;N = 87首歌曲),以及在日本和美国进行的情绪诱导实验(研究2;N = 353名参与者),我们发现集体主义的东亚文化通常更喜欢能量水平更高的歌曲,而能量歌曲与愤怒的下调密切相关,而不是悲伤和焦虑的下调。我们推测,能量作为一种基于强度的音乐唤醒特征,可能代表一个人用来“淹没”愤怒的内化(控制)调节,由于情绪(非)表达的社会文化规范,这种调节在东亚文化中更为普遍。相反,这与基于节奏的音乐唤起(即可跳舞性)相关的外化调节不同。
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4.30
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期刊介绍: Published since 1971, Journal of Applied Social Psychology is a monthly publication devoted to applications of experimental behavioral science research to problems of society (e.g., organizational and leadership psychology, safety, health, and gender issues; perceptions of war and natural hazards; jury deliberation; performance, AIDS, cancer, heart disease, exercise, and sports).
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