The Psychological Study on Emotionally Moving States with Listening to Music (2)

Abstract

We experience emotionally moving states and see or hear a word "emotionally moving" on various occasions. Also there are especially many cases of emotionally moving states with listening to music. It is said that emotionally moving states with listening to music consist of 7 categories: "General characteristics" "Physical reactions and behaviours" "Perception" "Cognition" "Feelings/Emotions" "Existential and transcendental aspects" "Personal and social aspects" (Gabrielsson and Lindstrom, 2003). However relationship between emotionally moving states and each category is still obscure. Therefore we focused on "Feelings/Emotions" category and had quantitative experiments to make emotionally moving states more clear.