Fig 1.
The four categories in the circumplex model and complete list of words.
Fig 2.
Diagram showing how music pieces will be transposed and how tempos will be manipulated.
Fig 3.
4th Movement- Original (Major key).
Fig 4.
4th Movement—Altered (Minor key).
Fig 5.
Visual illustration of the progression of each trial.
Table 1.
Spearman’s correlation coefficient of emotional state and positive words selected.
Table 2.
Spearman’s correlation coefficients of emotional state and high arousal words selected.
Fig 6.
Differences in means of the selection of positive words between major and minor mode.
Error bars indicate the standard error of the mean.
Fig 7.
Average intensity rating of positive words in the major mode and minor mode conditions.
Error bars indicate the standard error of the mean.
Fig 8.
Mean number of positive words selected with respect to the various tempo conditions in both major and minor mode.
Error bars indicate the standard error of the mean.
Fig 9.
Differences in means of the selection of high arousal words between major and minor mode.
Error bars indicate the standard error of the mean.
Fig 10.
Differences in mean number of times high arousal words were selected, between the tempo conditions (Fast, Original, Slow). Error bars indicate the standard error of the mean.
Fig 11.
Interaction effect between the fast tempo and original tempo conditions on the mean number of high arousal words selected.
Fig 12.
Average rated intensities of tempo on the high arousal words.
Error bars indicate the standard error of the means.
Fig 13.
The relationship between the number of high arousal words selected and the rated intensities in the Major-Fast condition.
Fig 14.
The relationship between the number of high arousal words selected and the rated intensities in the Major-Slow condition.
Fig 15.
The relationship between the number of high arousal words selected and the rated intensities in the Minor-Slow condition.
Table 3.
Means and Standard deviations of words chosen in various music conditions.
Table 4.
The average intensity rating of each high arousal word (first column) and the number of times the word was chosen (second column) in the various music conditions.
Table 5.
The percentage of high arousal words with negative valence chosen in the minor mode.