1972/06/01 by Seymour Fisher, Roger P. Greenberg · 1 citation
Arts and Humanities · Neuroscience · Psychology · #Diverse Music Education Insights #Flow Experience in Various Fields #Neuroscience and Music Perception
paper · doi:10.2466/pms.1972.34.3.987
crossref issued 1972/06/01 · crossref published 1972/06/01 · crossref published-online 1972/06/01 · crossref published-print 1972/06/01 · openalex publication_date 1972/06/01 · crossref created 2011/09/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · crossref deposited 2026/05/01 · openalex updated_date 2026/06/26 · crossref indexed 2026/07/29
90 female Ss were randomly assigned to one of three groups who responded to a battery of psychological tests while listening to exciting, calm, or no music. The major hypothesis was that the less feminine a woman's orientation the more would exposure to musical stimuli disturb her. This hypothesis was supported by significant negative correlations between femininity and anxiety under both music conditions. Further, femininity correlated with rated pleasantness and warmth of the exciting music and perceived safety and warmth of the calm music. Music also had significant effects on mood and responses to both structured and unstructured psychological tests.