Abstract:Music is a product of culture. Cross-cultural examinations of music features can reveal novel information about the cultural psychological processes involved in shaping music preferences. In Studies 1 and 2, we first identified differences in music preferences through machine learning of East-Asian and Western popular music on Spotify (combined N = 1,006,644). In interpreting these results, we developed a theory on danceability as a music feature, that represents cultural affordances for high-arousal emotions.… Show more
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