Induction of depressed and elated mood by music influences the perception of facial emotional expressions in healthy subjects

Bouhuys, Antoinette L.; Bloem, Gerda M.; Groothuis, Ton G. G.

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“…Indeed, more generally, the way attention is allocated seems to be influenced by mood (Jefferies et al, 2008;Vermeulen, 2010). More specifically, in studies on nonclinical populations, mood or state affect has consistently proved to influence the way emotional information is processed (Bouhuys, 1995;Chepenik et al, 2007;Egidi and Nusbaum, 2012;Herr et al, 2012;Lee et al, 2008;Lim et al, 2012;Niedenthal et al, 2000Niedenthal et al, , 1997Schmid and Schmid Mast, 2010). Most studies report a mood-congruency effect, acting as a filter in the perception of emotional stimuli and biasing the assessment congruently with the mood state.…”

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“…Most studies report a mood-congruency effect, acting as a filter in the perception of emotional stimuli and biasing the assessment congruently with the mood state. For example, studies using ambiguous emotional facial expressions (EFE) have showed that individuals who had been induced to be in a sad mood had a biased perception toward sadness or negative emotions in comparison to individuals in a happy or neutral mood condition (Bouhuys, 1995;Lee et al, 2008). Moreover, in a study using video clips of blended EFE (sequences of faces from emotionally intense to neutral), Niedenthal et al (2000) found that mood-congruent emotional expressions were perceived to persist longer than the mood-incongruent ones.…”

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Joint effect of alexithymia and mood on the categorization of nonverbal emotional vocalizations

Bayot¹,

Pleyers²,

Kotsou³

et al. 2014

Psychiatry Research

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General rightsIt is not permitted to download or to forward/distribute the text or part of it without the consent of the author(s) and/or copyright holder(s), other than for strictly personal, individual use, unless the work is under an open content license (like Creative Commons). Disclaimer/Complaints regulationsIf you believe that digital publication of certain material infringes any of your rights or (privacy) interests, please let the Library know, stating your reasons. In case of a legitimate complaint, the Library will make the material inaccessible and/or remove it from the website. Please Ask the Library: http://uba.uva.nl/en/contact, or a letter to: Library of the University of Amsterdam, Secretariat, Singel 425, 1012 WP Amsterdam, The Netherlands. You will be contacted as soon as possible. The role of stable factors, such as alexithymia (i.e., difficulties identifying and expressing feelings, externally oriented cognitive style), or temporary factors, such as affective states (mood), on emotion perception has been widely investigated in the literature. However, little is known about the separate or joint effect of the alexithymia level and affective states (positive affectivity, negative affectivity) on the recognition of nonverbal emotional vocalizations (NEV) (e.g., laughs, cries, or sighs). In this study, participants had to categorize NEV communicating 10 emotions by selecting the correct verbal emotional label. Results show that the level of alexithymia is negatively correlated to the capacity to accurately categorize negative vocalizations, and more particularly sad NEV. On the other hand, negative affectivity appeared negatively correlated with the ability to accurately categorize NEV in general, and negative vocalizations in particular. After splitting the results by the alexithymia level (high vs. low scorers), significant associations between mood and accuracy rates were found in the group of high alexithymia scorers only. These findings support the idea that alexithymic features act across sensory modalities and suggest a mood-interference effect that would be stronger in those individuals.

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Joint effect of alexithymia and mood on the categorization of nonverbal emotional vocalizations

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Pleyers²,

Kotsou³

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Psychiatry Research

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“…Depressed individuals have been found to make distorted appraisals of others' reactions to them, particularly displaying a hypersensitivity to negative cues. When attempting to recognize the type of emotion found in facial displays, for instance, depressed people are more likely than are matched controls to see negative expressions (Bouhuys et al, 1995;Gur et al, 1992;Hale, 1998;Mandal & Bhattacharya, 1985;Nandi et al, 1982), an effect that predicts depression severity (Hale, 1998). Distorted perceptions of specific nonverbal cues alter the way depressed individuals attribute more global dispositions to others.…”

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“…The main goal of Study 3 was to obtain an objective measure of social judgment accuracy among individuals with more chronic levels of sadness and to use ecologically valid stimuli in doing so. With some exceptions Carton et al, 1999;, prior work has generally presented still photographs or schematic displays of emotional faces (Bouhuys et al, 1995;Feinberg et al, 1986;Hale, 1998;Mandal & Bhattacharya, 1985;Persad & Polivy, 1993) rather than the dynamic movements expressed in real-life social encounters.…”

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On being sad and mistaken: Mood effects on the accuracy of thin-slice judgments.

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Gray

2002

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology

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“…Several behavioral tests have corroborated the subliminal effects of music on the general mood state (distinct from an emotion for its lower intensity and longer duration) of a subject and even on the perception of emotions conveyed through another sensory modality. For instance, music-induced elevated or depressed mood affected subjects' explicit evaluation of emotional faces: during depressing music subjects detected more rejection and fear (Bouhuys et al, 1995). Similarly, music may affect subjects' subconscious perception of visual emotions: in a gender discrimination task subjects reacted more quickly to happy faces in the presence of relaxing music than angry faces while listening to an irritating noise, evidencing a combination of a congruence bias for positive music-induced mood toward positive emotions and an attention shift away from the stimuli by the negative noise-induced mood (Quarto et al, 2014).…”

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Hidden sources of joy, fear, and sadness: Explicit versus implicit neural processing of musical emotions

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Music is often used to regulate emotions and mood. Typically, music conveys and induces emotions even when one does not attend to them. Studies on the neural substrates of musical emotions have, however, only examined brain activity when subjects have focused on the emotional content of the music. Here we address with functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) the neural processing of happy, sad, and fearful music with a paradigm in which 56 subjects were instructed to either classify the emotions (explicit condition) or pay attention to the number of instruments playing (implicit condition) in 4-sec music clips. In the implicit vs.2 explicit condition, stimuli activated bilaterally the inferior parietal lobule, premotor cortex, caudate, and ventromedial frontal areas. The cortical dorsomedial prefrontal and occipital areas activated during explicit processing were those previously shown to be associated with the cognitive processing of music and emotion recognition and regulation. Moreover, happiness in music was associated with activity in the bilateral auditory cortex, left parahippocampal gyrus, and supplementary motor area, whereas the negative emotions of sadness and fear corresponded with activation of the left anterior cingulate and middle frontal gyrus and down-regulation of the orbitofrontal cortex. Our study demonstrates for the first time in healthy subjects the neural underpinnings of the implicit processing of brief musical emotions, particularly in frontoparietal, dorsolateral prefrontal, and striatal areas of the brain.

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Induction of depressed and elated mood by music influences the perception of facial emotional expressions in healthy subjects

Cited by 190 publications

References 42 publications

Joint effect of alexithymia and mood on the categorization of nonverbal emotional vocalizations

Joint effect of alexithymia and mood on the categorization of nonverbal emotional vocalizations

On being sad and mistaken: Mood effects on the accuracy of thin-slice judgments.

Hidden sources of joy, fear, and sadness: Explicit versus implicit neural processing of musical emotions

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