Musical Styles and Reactivity Recorded by Polygraph
Valentina-Elisabeta Constantin
Abstract
"Music brings man out of himself and out of the world, it lifts him above himself and the world, being the most beautiful revelation of God." Music is one of the most mysterious forms of art, which exerts a fascinated attraction. It provokes and excites us, it enchains us with its power, it enslaves us, but it never ceases to delight us. In this research, the testing of musical tendency and the relationship between behavioral reactions and musical liking/disliking was carried out by means of a questionnaire and emotional reactions, which were observed through certain behavioral reactions of the research respondents by means of the Polygraph machine at the Faculty of Psychology of Hyperion University. The correlation between the scores recorded with the help of the Polygraph and the scores recorded after the application of the questionnaire targeting musical liking/disliking was followed. We assume that there is a statistically significant difference between the preferences (pleasure/displeasure) for different musical styles (Latin, rock, pop-`dance, and neutral sounds of nature- the sound of the sea waves and the sound of chirping of birds, the sound of rain). The respondents of the research are 31 person, aged 18-35 years, 17 female and 15 males. The group [of participants was chosen in nonprobability round- robomized sampling style, from several activity backgrounds: student, employees, entrepreneurs. Following the realization of the research the hypothesis was confirmed, we admit that the result is highly statistically significant between all the means of the analyzed parameters, the subjects' reactions showed statistically significant difference between the first and the second measurement performed. The limitations of this research being the time, the number of participants, the limited number of musical stimuli, the mood of the participants at the time of the research. For future research we propose a larger number of participants and musical stimuli, in different time periods and in different groups.
