Food and Paper: Moral Echoes: Do Humanness and Morality Affect Emotional and Aesthetic Responses to Music?

This week's Food and Paper will be given by Abbigail Fleckenstein

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Abbigail Fleckenstein - RITMO Food & Paper presentation

Abstract

This presentation will explore an ongoing project, Moral Echoes, which examines the impact of perceived humanness and morality on listeners' emotional and aesthetic responses to music. Specifically, the project investigates how these emotional and aesthetic responses differ when the music is believed to be created and performed by either a human musician or a generative AI-model. The presentation will outline the project's research questions, methodology, materials, and planned analyses.

Bio

Abbigail Fleckenstein is a doctoral research fellow at the Department of Psychology at UiO and works at the RITMO Centre under the supervision of Prof. Jonna Vuoskoski. Her doctoral research combines her passions for music psychology and empirical aesthetics by exploring the relationships between different emotional, social, and aesthetic responses to music. During her time at RITMO, she aims to investigate musical experiences considered to be "moving" and "beautiful" and specifically evaluate the social and emotional outcomes of these experiences, as well as the musical and non-musical contributors to these experiences.

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