Selective Effects upon Women of Exciting and Calm Music

Abstract
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.

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