“I Just Go with What Feels Right”. Variance and Commonality in Metal Music Mixing Practice

Moral value transfer from regulatory fit: what feels right is right and what feels wrong is wrong.

People experience regulatory fit (E. T. Higgins, 2000) when the strategic manner of their goal pursuit suits their regulatory orientation, and this regulatory fit feels right. Fit violation feels wrong. Four studies tested the proposal that experiences of fit can transfer to moral evaluations. The authors examined transfer of feeling wrong from fit violation by having participants in a promotio...

WhEN iT fEElS righT, gO WiTh iT: affECTivE rEgulaTiON Of affiliaTivE SOCial TuNiNg

Past research demonstrates that when people are motivated to affiliate with another, their beliefs and implicit attitudes spontaneously adjust toward that person’s apparent beliefs, a phenomenon dubbed affiliative social tuning. Two experiments examined the role of people’s mood in regulating affiliative social tuning of implicit and explicit racial prejudice. Based on the idea that positive mo...

Music feels like moods feel

While it is widely accepted that music evokes moods, there is disagreement over whether music-induced moods are relevant to the aesthetic appreciation of music as such. The arguments against the aesthetic relevance of music-induced moods are: (1) moods cannot be intentionally directed at the music and (2) music-induced moods are highly subjective experiences and are therefore a kind of mind-wan...

Just What Could Possibly Go Wrong In B2B Integration?

One important trend in enterprise-scale IT has been the increasing use of business-to-business integration (B2Bi) technologies to automate business processes that cross organisational boundaries, such as the interactions between partner companies along the supply chain. It is relatively easy to describe a pattern of interaction, or choreography, in the case where everything proceeds smoothly. H...

Depression & just what I thought.