The Impact of Emotional Intelligence and Culture on Emotion Recognition in Music
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2020
Authors
Kines, Sabina
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Ross, Nancy (Advisor)
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Emotional intelligence
Music
Culture
Music
Culture
Citation
Kines, Sabina. “The Impact of Emotional Intelligence and Culture on Emotion Recognition in Music.” BA Honours (Psychology), Tyndale University, 2020.
Abstract
Do culture and emotional intelligence have an impact on emotion-recognition abilities in music? I hypothesized that people from one culture would more accurately recognize the emotions in instrumental music from their culture compared to instrumental music from a significantly different
culture. I also hypothesized that people with higher emotional intelligence would more accurately recognize the emotions in instrumental music. University undergraduates (n=72) were asked to rate the perceived and felt emotions in music from two different cultures: Western Baroque music
and non-Western Hindustani ragas. Each musical stimulus in each genre conveyed one of five emotions: happiness, sadness, anger, fear, and calm. Participants also completed a battery of tests to assess their trait and ability emotional intelligence, their personality, and their current mood. They also completed a demographics questionnaire, which identified their age, gender, ethnicity, musical training, cultural background, and exposure to music. A series of paired samples t-tests and correlations were conducted to assess their accuracy. Unlike emotional intelligence, culture had a significant impact on emotion-recognition accuracy. In some instances emotional intelligence appeared to have a negative effect on emotion recognition in culturally unfamiliar music
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Tyndale University
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