From the Archives: The 13 Emotions Music Evokes

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🗓️ 18 March 2022

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This episode originally aired on 2/4/2020. New episodes coming soon.

Learn about the 13 categories of emotions that music makes you feel; how scientists solved the mystery of two strangely small tyrannosaurus rex fossils; and surprising things that happen to a pregnant person’s body.

Research Suggests That Music Evokes 13 Key Emotions by Kelsey Donk

Anwar, Y. (2020, January 6). Ooh là là! Music evokes at least 13 emotions. Scientists have mapped them. Berkeley News. https://news.berkeley.edu/2020/01/06/music-evokes-13-emotions/
Noonan, D. (2020, January 6). Is a Sad Song Sad for Everyone? Scientific American. https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/is-a-sad-song-sad-for-everyone/
Cowen, A. S., Fang, X., Sauter, D., & Keltner, D. (2020). What music makes us feel: At least 13 dimensions organize subjective experiences associated with music across different cultures. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 117(4), 1924–1934. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1910704117

Two Tiny T-Rexes Turned Out to Be Teenagers by Mae Rice

Secrets behind T. rex’s bone crushing bites: T. rex could crush with 8,000 pound bite forces. (2017). ScienceDaily. https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/05/170517090520.htm
Researchers learn more about teen-age T.Rex. (2020). EurekAlert! https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2020-01/osuc-rlm122019.php
Woodward, H. N., Tremaine, K., Williams, S. A., Zanno, L. E., Horner, J. R., & Myhrvold, N. (2020). Growing up Tyrannosaurus rex: Osteohistology refutes the pygmy “Nanotyrannus” and supports ontogenetic niche partitioning in juvenile Tyrannosaurus. Science Advances, 6(1), eaax6250. https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.aax6250

Surprising Things Pregnancy Does to the Body by Kelsey Donk

Nierenberg, C. (2015, May 19). Body Changes During Pregnancy. Livescience.Com; Live Science. https://www.livescience.com/50877-regnancy-body-changes.html
Catriona Harvey-Jenner. (2017, April 12). 10 weird things you didn’t realise happen to your body during pregnancy. Cosmopolitan; Cosmopolitan. https://www.cosmopolitan.com/uk/body/health/a9266776/weird-things-happen-to-body-during-pregnancy/
Cari Wira Dineen. (2016, May 4). Crazy Ways Your Body Changes During Pregnancy. Parents; Parents. https://www.parents.com/pregnancy/my-body/changing/crazy-ways-your-body-changes-during-pregnancy/

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0:00.0	Hey it's Janice from Discovery. Curiosity Daily success over the years means we have an amazing archive to pull from.
0:06.8	Take a listen to this episode from a few years back to get smarter in just a few minutes.
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0:15.0	Hi, you're about to get smarter in just a few minutes with Curiosity Daily from Curiosity.
0:20.6	com. I'm Cody Gough. And I'm Ashley Hamer.
0:23.0	Today you learn about the 13 categories of emotions that music makes you feel,
0:27.0	how scientists solve the mystery of two strangely small T-Rex fossils,
0:31.0	and surprising things that happen to a pregnant person's body.
0:34.3	Let's satisfy some curiosity.
0:36.3	Lately, we've talked a lot about experiences across cultures, stuff like whether things like
0:41.4	music or emotions or universal, no matter where you come from.
0:44.8	Well now, new research from UC Berkeley suggests that the emotions evoked by music are universal too.
0:51.1	The team found that those emotions can be mapped within at least 13
0:54.6	overarching categories, but these feelings still differ across cultures in
0:59.1	some important ways. To figure this out, the Berkeley scientists surveyed more than 2,500 people in the United States and China about their emotional responses to rock, folk, jazz, classical, marching band, experimental, and heavy metal.
1:13.0	Then they crunch the numbers and put each distinct feeling into its own category.
1:18.0	Eventually, they arrived at 13 overarching emotions.
1:21.0	Amusement, joy, eroticism, amusement, joy, eroticism, beauty, relaxation, sadness, dreaminess, triumph,
1:28.6	anxiety, fear, annoyance, defiance, and feeling pumped up.
1:34.2	It turned out that participants in the US and China
1:36.7	all identified similar emotions when they heard the same songs.
1:40.8	The Jaws score, for instance,
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