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. 2017 Jan:40:e351.
doi: 10.1017/S0140525X17001595.

Emotional granularity and the musical enjoyment of sadness itself

Nathaniel F Barrett  1 , Jay Schulkin  2 , Javier Bernacer  1
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Emotional granularity and the musical enjoyment of sadness itself

Nathaniel F Barrett et al. Behav Brain Sci. 2017 Jan.

Abstract

We contest the claim that musically induced sadness cannot be enjoyable in itself. This possibility is supported by closer attention to a musical experience as well as cases of affective reversal, such as the "hedonic flip" of painful feelings. We propose that the affective reversal of sadness in music is due to the high granularity of musically induced emotion.

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