scholarly journals Pleasure, arousal, dominance, and judgments about music in everyday life

2016 ◽  
Vol 45 (3) ◽  
pp. 355-374 ◽  
Author(s):  
Amanda E. Krause ◽  
Adrian C. North
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Important Variable ◽  
Reconstruction Method ◽  
Music Listening ◽  
Day Reconstruction Method ◽  
Dominance Model ◽  
Everyday Activities ◽  
Everyday Experiences

The aim of the present research was to consider what particular features are significant predictors of whether music is present in a given situation, as well as what factors influence a person’s judgments about the music. Applying Mehrabian and Russell’s (1974) Pleasure-Arousal-Dominance model to everyday experiences of music, 569 people reported on their activity for the previous day via the Day Reconstruction Method (Kahneman, Krueger, Schkade, Schwarz, & Stone, 2004). Data concerning each event included the activity and location, and characterization of the experience using the Pleasure–Arousal–Dominance measure. Moreover, for those events where music was present, participants also indicated how they heard the music and made four judgments about the music. Results indicated that the location, activity, and the person’s perception of dominance were significant predictors of the presence of music during everyday activities and that person’s judgments about the music. Contrary to prior research that has considered predominantly situational pleasure and arousal variables, the present results demonstrate that dominance is arguably the important variable in contextualized music listening.

scholarly journals Older Women’s Situated Identities: Positioning Analysis Applied to Stories about Everyday Experiences Dealing With Physical Functional Changes

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (1-2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Makie Kawabata ◽  
Miya Narushima
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Functional Changes ◽  
Everyday Activities ◽  
Significant Events ◽  
Social Encounters ◽  
Small Stories ◽  
Everyday Experiences ◽  
Positioning Analysis

Identities are not only constructed through coherent and unified stories about significant events but also formed within the interactions during everyday social encounters. Using positioning analysis, we explored how older women’s “small stories” from interviews can be used to identify their “situated selves” and how positioning analysis contributes to enhance our understandings about their experiences of physical functional changes. Positioning analysis helped us see how they continuously modify their positions to reconstruct their identities while they talk about everyday life. We should pay more attention to “small stories” about everyday activities as well as their coherent “big stories.”

What Are Our Personal Memories for? Effects of Gender and Country in Perceived Functions of Everyday Memories in Danish and Spanish College Students

2017 ◽  
Vol 51 (4) ◽  
pp. 360-387 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrés Santamaría ◽  
Manuel de la Mata ◽  
Mercedes Cubero ◽  
Tia G. B. Hansen
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Gender Differences ◽  
Autobiographical Memory ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Gender Ideology ◽  
Male And Female ◽  
Everyday Activities ◽  
Naturally Occurring ◽  
Country Differences

Theorists in autobiographical memory (AM) studies generally agree that AMs serve three kinds of broad functions: self-related, social, and directive functions. Although these kinds of functions are probably universal, gender and country variations are expected. The study investigates perceived use of AMs in everyday life. Male and female Danish and Spanish college students were asked to carry a diary and report a sample of naturally occurring instances of AMs. Participants were asked to assess their memories in terms of perceived functions. Results showed some country differences that were consistent with the characterization of Danish and Spanish samples in terms of individualism–collectivism. Some gender differences were also found. These differences, in contrast to our expectations, were limited to the Danes. To interpret it, two main lines of reasoning were proposed. The first was concerned with changes in gender ideology in Spain in the last decades. According to the second, these analyses may lead us to expand the number of broad categories as well as the variety of specific uses of AMs in everyday activities.

scholarly journals Informing behavioural policies with data from everyday life

2018 ◽  
pp. 1-19
Author(s):  
LEONHARD K. LADES ◽  
LUCIE MARTIN ◽  
LIAM DELANEY
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Ecological Validity ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Reconstruction Method ◽  
Subjective Well Being ◽  
Day Reconstruction Method ◽  
Monitoring Tool ◽  
Behavioural Interventions ◽  
Monitoring Tools ◽  
The Everyday

AbstractNaturalistic monitoring tools provide detailed information about people's behaviours and experiences in everyday life. Most naturalistic monitoring research has focused on measuring subjective well-being. This paper discusses how naturalistic monitoring can inform behavioural public policy-making by providing detailed information about everyday decisions and the choice architecture in which these decisions are made. We describe how the Day Reconstruction Method (DRM) – a naturalistic monitoring tool popular in the subjective well-being literature – can be used to: (i) improve ecological validity of behavioural economics; (ii) provide mechanistic evidence of the everyday workings of behavioural interventions; and (iii) help us to better understand people's true preferences. We believe that DRM data on everyday life have great potential to support the design and evaluation of behavioural policies.

scholarly journals Conceptualizing Control in Everyday Music Listening: Defining Dominance

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 ◽  
pp. 205920432093164
Author(s):  
Amanda E. Krause ◽  
Sophie Mackin ◽  
Adam Mossman ◽  
Taylor Murray ◽  
Nathan Oliver ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Factor Analysis ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Exploratory Factor Analysis ◽  
Thematic Analysis ◽  
Music Listening ◽  
Contextual Control ◽  
Mood Regulation ◽  
Online Questionnaire ◽  
Dominance Model ◽  
Control Dimension

Mehrabian and Russell’s Pleasure-Arousal-Dominance model states that people’s interactions and interpretation of their surroundings result from variations in three factors – pleasure, arousal, and dominance. Applied to music, pleasure has been operationalized as how much a person likes the music heard, arousal as how arousing the person considers the music to be, and dominance as the person’s control over the music heard. However, conceptualizing dominance broadly as control means that the construct is not well defined. This research aimed to define the elements related to a listener’s desire for control over music encountered in everyday life. Participants residing in Australia and USA ( N = 590) completed an online questionnaire. An exploratory factor analysis of the quantitative items identified five components defining control over music listening: “being personally in charge”, “selection by other people”, “contextual control”, “playback variety”, and “no need for control”. A thematic analysis of open-ended responses indicated additional facets of control including mood regulation, emotional investment, and identity. While the quantitative findings reaffirm previous research, the qualitative findings indicate previous conceptualizations of the control dimension have been limited. These results contribute to our understanding of the model’s dominance component with regard to explaining everyday music listening.

scholarly journals Augmenting Function with Value: An Exploration of Reasons to Engage and Disengage from Music Listening

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 ◽  
pp. 205920432110225
Author(s):  
Amanda E Krause ◽  
Solange Glasser ◽  
Margaret Osborne
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Thematic Analysis ◽  
Uses And Gratifications ◽  
Affective Responses ◽  
Cognitive Factors ◽  
Music Listening ◽  
Online Questionnaire ◽  
Functional Perspective ◽  
Research Questions ◽  
Inductive Thematic Analysis

Investigations of music in everyday life are dominated by a functional perspective, drawn from work using the theory of Uses and Gratifications. In so doing, we may have neglected to fully appreciate the value people place on music listening. Therefore, the present study considered if, and why, people value music listening and probed instances when they may not want to listen to music in everyday life. A sample of 319 university students residing in Australia (76.50% female, M age = 20.64) completed an online questionnaire, on which they were asked to provide short responses to open-ended questions directly addressing two research questions. Inductive thematic analysis yielded 13 themes synthesizing how participants valued listening to music, such as appreciation, emotion, time and engagement, cognitive factors, and mood regulation. Reasons for not listening to music were summarized by eight themes dominated by interference with activities that required focus or concentration, followed by environmental context, affective responses, music engagement and inversely, a preference for silence or other auditory stimuli. Fifteen percent of participants stated there was never a time they did not want to listen to music. The findings provide a novel perspective on the value of music listening beyond that considered by uses and gratifications with regard to the function of listening to music in everyday life.

The Listener

2021 ◽  
pp. 240-264
Author(s):  
Robert H. Woody
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Physiological Responses ◽  
Music Listening ◽  
Primary Reason ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Recording Studio ◽  
Psychology Of Music ◽  
Human Hearing ◽  
Emotions In Music

Practically speaking, listening is the primary reason music exists at all. Providing a meaningful sonic experience for others is largely the reason that composers work so hard on their creations and performers enter the stage or recording studio. Human beings’ love of music can be seen in common music listening is in everyday life today. In this respect, it may seem strange to consider “the listener” as a musical role, let alone to regard music listening as a skill that people develop, even to specialized expert levels. Be that as it may, listening is an extremely important topic in the psychology of music. Many people would never consider themselves “musicians” still enthusiastically fill the role of serious listeners. This chapter offers in depth consideration of music listening, beginning with an examination of the processes of human hearing. It addresses the multiple types of listening in which people engage, from hearing music in the background while doing other things to focused listening for the purpose analyzing or evaluating the music heard. Special emphasis is given to music’s capacity to evoke strong emotions in music, sometimes to the point of physiological responses such as tears, shivers, and a racing heart.

scholarly journals Transparency as Ideology, Ideology as Transparency: Towards a Critique of the Meta-aesthetics of Neoliberal Hegemony

2018 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 654-667 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jorge I. Valdovinos
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
Conceptual Structure ◽  
Critical Examination ◽  
Conceptual Level ◽  
Late Capitalism ◽  
Social Consensus ◽  
Structures Of Feeling ◽  
Everyday Experiences ◽  
Relations Of Power

Abstract Along with the increasing commodification of all aspects of culture and the persistent aestheticisation of everyday life under late capitalism, there is an equally increasing longing for objectivity, immediacy, and trust. As the mediation of our everyday experiences augments, a generalised feeling of mistrust in institutions reigns; the sense of a need to bypass them increases, and the call for more “transparency” intensifies. As transparency manages to bypass critical examination, the term becomes a source of tacit social consensus. This paper argues that the proliferation of contemporary discourses favouring transparency has become one of the fundamental vehicles for the legitimation of neoliberal hegemony, due to transparency's own conceptual structure-a formula with a particularly sharp capacity for translating structures of power into structures of feeling. While the ideology of transparency promises a movement towards the abolition of unequal flows of information at the basis of relations of power and exploitation, it simultaneously sustains a regime of hyper-visibility based on asymmetrical mechanisms of accountability for the sake of profit. The solution is not “more” transparency or “better” information, but to critically examine the emancipatory potential of transparency at the conceptual level, inspecting the architecture that supports its parasitic logic.

Sign in / Sign up

Export Citation Format

Share Document