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Jul. 11th, 2007 07:13 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
khiemtranFrom the smh:
THERE is a reason why some people gag at Barbra Streisand songs and Barry Manilow can chase teenagers out of car parks, a Sydney academic has found.
A University of NSW music psychologist Emery Schubert argues these responses are caused by a differential affect gap (DAG) - a discrepancy between the emotion expressed in a song and the emotion felt by the listener.
This is interesting from a writing perspective because it ties in with the question of why showing a character angsting from the inside often reduces empathy rather than increasing it. When there's too much of a mismatch between the reader's emotional involvement and the emotion in the text, the whole thing turns purple.
THERE is a reason why some people gag at Barbra Streisand songs and Barry Manilow can chase teenagers out of car parks, a Sydney academic has found.
A University of NSW music psychologist Emery Schubert argues these responses are caused by a differential affect gap (DAG) - a discrepancy between the emotion expressed in a song and the emotion felt by the listener.
This is interesting from a writing perspective because it ties in with the question of why showing a character angsting from the inside often reduces empathy rather than increasing it. When there's too much of a mismatch between the reader's emotional involvement and the emotion in the text, the whole thing turns purple.
