title: The influence of social situations on music listening.
abstract: The aim of this study was to investigate whether listening to music in a group setting influenced the emotion felt by the listeners. We hypothesized that individuals hearing music in a group would experience more intense emotions than the same individuals hearing the same music on their own. The emotional reactions to 10 musical excerpts (previously shown to contain chill-inducing psychoacoustic parameters) were measured in a within-subjects design. We found, contrary to our hypothesis, that the participants (all musicians) did not experience more chills when listening to music in a group than when listening alone. These findings may be explained by a lesser degree of concentration on the music in the group condition.
authors: Hanover University of Music and Drama, Hanover, Germany. mary.e.sutherland@gmail.com
authors: Mary Elizabeth
authors: ME
authors: Sutherland
authors: Oliver
authors: O
authors: Grewe
authors: Hauke
authors: H
authors: Egermann
authors: Frederik
authors: F
authors: Nagel
authors: Reinhard
authors: R
authors: Kopiez
authors: Eckart
authors: E
authors: Altenmüller
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D004644:Emotions; D006801:Humans; D007398:Interpersonal Relations; D009146:Music / Q000523:psychology*