The listener's response depends upon the emotion expressed, and thus the expressivity of the music cannot depend upon that response.
In the alternative "mapping method," one proceeds by presenting emotionally evocative stimuli to native speakers, asking them to identify the emotion expressed in the emotional stimuli, and assessing the degree to which the implied similarity of the stimuli is similar for the two languages.
In conclusion, these results showed that the deceleration phase of the feeding action was sensitive to the interaction between the relevance of the emotional context and the valence of the emotion expressed by the actor to be fed: feeding happy actors turned out to be the specific condition in which more control was required.
In addition to individual differences in face plasticity, there may be individual differences in the levels of emotion expressed in one's baseline ("neutral") facial expression.
There is a difference between the emotion expressed in the face and the general emotional state of the speaker.
The dependence between valence and self-information disappears if we ignore the sign of the valence, which means, indeed, that the usage frequency of a word is not just related to the overall emotional intensity, but to the positive or negative emotion expressed by the word.
Peter Kivy (1999) goes almost all the way, arguing that those who report emotional reactions to music are confusing the pleasure they take in the beauty of the music, in all its expressive individuality, with the feeling of the emotion expressed.
Although differences in production context could have a significant impact during the authenticity task, this would not necessarily be the case during the emotion task, since recognition of the emotion expressed may not necessarily require knowledge of the intention behind that expression.
Monday was pure emotion, expressed through a pageant of families.
The main emotion expressed is sadness or melancholy, often due to problems in love.
"I've never come across a single emotion expressed in the many, many that I've read," he said.
