The systematic study of music-induced emotions requires standardized measurement instruments to reliably assess the nature of affective reactions to music, which tend to go beyond garden-variety basic emotions. We describe the development and conceptual validation of a checklist for rapid assessment of music-induced affect, designed to extend and complement the Geneva Emotional Music Scale. The checklist contains a selection of affect and emotion categories that are frequently used in the literature to refer to emotional reactions to music. The development of the checklist focused on an empirical investigation of the semantic structure of the relevant terms, combined with fuzzy classes based on a series of hierarchical cluster analyses. Two versions of the checklist for assessing the intensity and frequency of affective responses to music are proposed.
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April 01 2017
Introducing the GEneva Music-Induced Affect Checklist (GEMIAC): A Brief Instrument for the Rapid Assessment of Musically Induced Emotions
Eduardo Coutinho,
University of Liverpool
Eduardo Coutinho, University of Liverpool, Department of Music, 80-88 Bedford Street South, Liverpool L69 7WW, United Kingdom. Phone: +44 151 795 8558; E-mail: e.coutinho@liverpool.ac.uk
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Klaus R. Scherer
Klaus R. Scherer
University of Geneva
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Eduardo Coutinho, University of Liverpool, Department of Music, 80-88 Bedford Street South, Liverpool L69 7WW, United Kingdom. Phone: +44 151 795 8558; E-mail: e.coutinho@liverpool.ac.uk
Music Perception (2017) 34 (4): 371–386.
Article history
Received:
July 28 2014
Accepted:
July 26 2016
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Eduardo Coutinho, Klaus R. Scherer; Introducing the GEneva Music-Induced Affect Checklist (GEMIAC): A Brief Instrument for the Rapid Assessment of Musically Induced Emotions. Music Perception 1 April 2017; 34 (4): 371–386. doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/mp.2017.34.4.371
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