1. Effect of Preference for Rock Music on Magnitude-Production Scaling Behavior in Young Adults: A Validation
- Author
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Molly Banks, Donald Fucci, Daniel Harris, and Linda Petrosino
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Adult ,Male ,Adolescent ,Loudness Perception ,Experimental and Cognitive Psychology ,Choice Behavior ,050105 experimental psychology ,Developmental psychology ,03 medical and health sciences ,0302 clinical medicine ,Psychophysics ,Humans ,0501 psychology and cognitive sciences ,Psychoacoustics ,Young adult ,Set (psychology) ,Scaling ,05 social sciences ,Significant difference ,Auditory Threshold ,030229 sport sciences ,Sensory Systems ,Preference ,Set, Psychology ,Rock music ,Female ,Psychology ,Social psychology ,Music - Abstract
The purpose of the present study was to examine the effect of preference for rock music on magnitude-production scaling behavior in young adults as an attempt to validate further the 1993 magnitude-estimation scaling results obtained by Fucci, Harris, Petrosino, and Banks. Two groups of young adults, 20 who liked rock music and 20 who disliked rock music, were tested. Subjects were instructed to adjust the intensity of a 10-sec. sample of rock music in response to seven written stimuli presented in random order. Analysis indicated that there was a significant difference in performance by the two groups of subjects on the magnitude-production scaling task. Those subjects who liked rock music adjusted the intensity of the music to higher levels than did the subjects who disliked rock music.
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- 1993