This study explored how lyrics, participant-selected music, and emotion trajectory impact self-reported emotional (happiness, sadness, arousal, and valence) and physiological (heart, respiration, and skin conductance rates) responses. Participants were matched (based on sex, age, musicianship, and lyric preference) and assigned to a lyric or instrumental group. Each participant experienced one emotion trajectory (happy-sad or sad-happy), with alternating self- and experimenter-selected jazz music. Emotion trajectory had a significant effect on self-reports, where participants in the sad-happy trajectory reported significantly more sadness overall compared to participants in the happy-sad trajectory. There were also several interaction effects between the independent variables, which indicate the relevance of order as well as differences in processing musical emotions depending on whether music is instrumental or contains lyrics.

本研究探讨了歌词、参与者选择的音乐和情绪轨迹如何影响自我报告的情绪（快乐、悲伤、唤醒和效价）和生理（心脏、呼吸和皮肤电导率）反应。参与者被匹配（基于性别、年龄、音乐能力和歌词偏好）并被分配到一个抒情或器乐组。每个参与者都经历了一种情绪轨迹（快乐-悲伤或悲伤-快乐），交替出现自我和实验者选择的爵士乐。情绪轨迹对自我报告有显着影响，与快乐 - 悲伤轨迹的参与者相比，悲伤 - 快乐轨迹的参与者总体上报告了更多的悲伤。自变量之间也有几个交互作用，