determine whether listening to music can have an effect on an individual’s emotions/well-being even when the music does not match the mood experienced by the participants

The purpose of this study is to [1] determine whether listening to music can have an effect on an individual’s emotions/well-being even when the music does not match the mood experienced by the participants, [2] to contribute to the existing evidence regarding the influence of music exposure on cognitive performance and determine whether using an emotional regulation strategy will enhance
the effects of the music compared to the previous experiment where no emotional regulation strategy was used.

The hypothesis is that there will be a significant difference in both mood and cognitive function between people exposed to mood-matching music and those subjected to mismatching music. Additionally, this is expected to be true for both positive and negative valence and there are expected to be more enhanced effects in this replication of the experiment due to the use of the emotional regulation strategy.

 

Here are some references,on top of this ones should use many more around 40 in total.

References not older than 5 -8 years

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Franco, F., Swaine, J. S., Israni, S., Zaborowska, K. A., Kaloko, F., Kesavarajan, I., Majek, J. A. (2014). Affect-matching music improves cognitive performance in adults and young children for both positive and negative emotions. Psychology of Music, 42; 869-887.

Ward, E. V., Isac, A., Donnelly, M., Puyvelde, M. V., Franco, F. (2021). Memory improvement in aging as a function of exposure tomood-matching music. Acta Psychologica, 212.

Schellenberg, G. E., Krysciak, A. M., & Campbell, J. R. (2000). Perceiving emotion in melody: Interactive effects of pitch and rhythm.Music Perception, 18; 155–171.

Swaine, J. S. (2014). Musical communication, emotion regulation and the capacity for attention control: A theoretical model.Psychology of Music, 42;856-863

Glowinski D., Camurri A. (2012). Music and emotions, in Emotion-Oriented Systems, ed Pelachaud C. (Hoboken NJ: John Wiley and Sons, Inc.), 247–270.1

Baltazar, M., Västfjäll, D., Asutay, E., Koppel, L., & Saarikallio, S. (2019). Is it me or the music? Stress reduction and the role of regulation strategies and music. Music & Science, 2,

Damasio, A. R. (2004). “Emotions and feelings: a neurobiological perspective,” in Feelings and Emotions, eds A. S. R. Manstead, N.Frijda, and A. Fischer (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press), 49–57.

Karreman, A., Laceulle, O. M., Hanser, W. E., & Vingerhoets, A. J. J. M. (2017). Effects of emotion regulation strategies on music-elicited emotions: An experimental study explaining individual differences. Personality and Individual Differences, 114, 36-41. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2017.03.059