Abstract
College students majoring in education (N＝100) participated in an experiment which examined changes of the listeners’mood and their impression rating of a picture. The first investigated factor was mood induction (affliation/depression/control), and the second factor was listening time (2 minutes before/during whole experiment). After the experimental groups were presented with music, the participants rated their own mood. In the second step, the participants of the experimental groups and a control group were presented with a picture, and then rated it. As for the results, the effect of mood induction was observed, and the induced mood affected the impression rating of the picture. The experimental groups rated their mood positively after listening to the music, while the control group did not rate their mood positively. The affiliation group rated the picture positively, while the depression group rated the picture negatively.
