Are Music Perceptions BiasedBy Priming Effects of Journalism?

摘要

A study was undertaken to determine whether journalist perceptions ofemotion would bias the perception of listeners. A sample of 142 undergraduatepsychology students from two different colleges listened to a recorded jazz saxophoneimprovisation and indicated their perception of emotion on a 7-point scale of friendly-angry. Half the participants preceded their listening by reading that a journalist hadreviewed the music as angry. Perceptions of anger in the music were significantly higheramong those listeners than among listeners who had not read the journalist's remark