Interpersonal Relationships and Preferences for Mood-Congruency in Aesthetic Experiences

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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.
Publisher
UNIV CHICAGO PRESS
Issue Date
2013-08
Language
English
Article Type
Article
Keywords

SELECTIVE EXPOSURE; AFFECTIVE STATES; SOCIAL SUPPORT; MANAGEMENT; TELEVISION; HYPOTHESIS; ATTACHMENTS; STRESS; APPEAL; NEED

Citation

JOURNAL OF CONSUMER RESEARCH, v.40, no.2, pp.382 - 391

ISSN
0093-5301
DOI
10.1086/670609
URI
http://hdl.handle.net/10203/186930
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