TY  - BOOK
AU  - Lee,Chan Jean
AU  - Andrade,Eduardo B.
AU  - Palmer,Stephen E.
TI  - Interpersonal relationships and preferences for mood-congruency in aesthetic experiences
SN  - 00935301
AV  - HF5415.3 JOU 
PY  - 2013///
CY  - Oxford
PB  - Oxford University Press
KW  - Social relations
KW  - Emotion
KW  - Aesthetics
N2  - Prior research examining how negative feelings influence aesthetic preferences (e.g., liking of different kinds of music, movies, or stories) has reported inconsistent findings. This article proposes a theoretical argument to explain when people are more likely to prefer mood-congruent to mood-incongruent aesthetic stimuli. It is suggested that mood-congruent aesthetic experiences, for example, listening to sad songs when feeling sad, (a) serve as a surrogate for the mood-sharing often observed in empathic relationships and hence (b) are preferred when emotional distress comes from failing interpersonal relationships (vs. noninterpersonal events). Consistent with this proposition, people's preferences for mood-congruent music strongly correlate with their preferences for an empathic friend (experiment 1). Further, mood-congruent preferences significantly increase when people experience interpersonal (vs. noninterpersonal) distress, independent of emotional intensity, emotion type (sadness and frustration/anger), and normative issues (experiments 1–3). Further theoretical developments and future research are discussed
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1086/670609
ER  -