Songs for the Ego: Theorizing Musical Self-Enhancement
Songs for the Ego: Theorizing Musical Self-Enhancement
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自我之歌：理论化音乐自我增强
作者：
Paul Elvers
本文概述了音乐自我提升的理论基础。我声称，听音乐是一种资源，可以积极地操纵情感状态，从而保持积极的自我看法，并提供乐观的感觉。自我提升--个人调整自我价值和获得自尊的过程--通常发生在社交活动中。我认为，体验音乐可以作为互动的一种独特的“审美替代品”，这同样有助于自我提升。这种能力依赖于音乐体验的三个主要特征，即：(A)唤起同理心，(B)引发社会凝聚力和从属关系，(C)引发奖励感。我概述了这些特征与音乐认知理论以及心理学和神经科学研究中的经验发现之间的关系。我还解释了音乐自我强化的细节，以及它与音乐的其他调节功能(如情绪调节和情绪调节)有何不同。我引入音乐自我提升这一概念的目的是扩大我们对音乐作为一种环境资源的理解，使我们能够接触到独特的情感状态，以及音乐体验是如何由作用者和声音环境共同构成的。这种利用音乐提升自我的具体方式可以被视为一种情感生态位构建形式，提供了人们可以更积极地体验自己并保持高度自尊的外部条件。
This paper outlines a theoretical account of musical self-enhancement. I claim that listening to music serves as a resource for actively manipulating affective states so that a positive self-view is maintained and a sense of optimism is provided. Self-enhancement—the process by which individuals modify their self-worth and gain self-esteem—typically takes place in social interactions. I argue that experiencing music may serve as a unique “esthetic surrogate” for interaction, which equally enables self-enhancement. This ability relies on three main characteristics of the musical experience, namely, its capacity to (a) evoke empathetic feelings, (b) elicit social cohesion and affiliation, and (c) elicit feelings of reward. I outline how these characteristics relate to theories of music cognition and empirical findings in psychology and neuroscience research. I also explain the specifics of musical self-enhancement and how it differs from music’s other regulatory functions such as mood- and emotion regulation. My aim in introducing the notion of musical self-enhancement is to broaden our understanding of how music functions as an environmental resource entailing access to unique affective states and how musical experiences are co-constituted by both the agent and the sonic environment. This specific use of music for self-enhancement can be regarded as a form of affective niche construction, providing the external conditions in which people can experience themselves more positively and maintain high self-esteem.
影响因子：
5.4
作者：
Greenwald, AG;Banaji, MR;Mellott, DS
通讯作者：
Mellott, DS
影响因子：
2.4
作者：
Clarke, Eric F.
通讯作者：
Clarke, Eric F.
影响因子：
7.6
作者：
PELHAM, BW;SWANN, WB
通讯作者：
SWANN, WB