Feeling like crying is a common response to music. Recent work suggests two forms of aesthetic crying: an awe-inspired, positive kind and a distressed, sad kind. Besides their emotional tone, what differentiates these experiences? The present research examined the context and subjective musical content of aesthetic crying. A sample of 961 adults described the emotional tone, musical features, and social and environmental contexts of a feeling like crying experience. Awe experiences more often involved religious or classical music that was complex and beautiful, and people were often with others and hearing the music live. Sad experiences more often involved popular genres (e.g., Pop, Soul or R&B, Country) that were cold and unpleasant, and people often noted that the music reminded them of someone or that they already felt like crying before listening to the music. The distinctions between these two kinds of experiences suggest that current theories of aesthetic crying could be fruitfully expanded.

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聆听音乐时感觉像在哭：探索音乐和情境特征

像哭泣一样感觉是对音乐的普遍反应。最近的工作提出了两种形式的审美哭泣：一种敬畏的积极的态度和一种痛苦的悲伤的态度。除了他们的情感基调之外，这些经历又有什么不同？本研究研究了审美哭泣的语境和主观音乐内容。961名成年人的样本描述了像哭泣一样的情绪，音乐特征以及社交和环境背景。敬畏的经历更多是复杂而优美的宗教或古典音乐，人们经常与他人在一起并现场聆听音乐。悲伤的经历通常涉及冷酷而令人不快的流行类型（例如流行，灵魂或R＆B，乡村），人们常常注意到，音乐使他们想起了某个人，或者在听音乐之前他们已经想哭了。两种体验之间的区别表明，当前的审美哭泣理论可以得到有效扩展。