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Validating Spotify’s ‘Valence’, ‘Energy’, and ‘Danceability’ Audio Features for Music Psychology Research

2025-09-29

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<p>Music psychology researchers have long been interested in how emotions are expressed in music. Increasingly, researchers employ computationally derived measures of emotion (e.g., valence and arousal) from services such as Spotify. These measures are easy to use, but how they are calculated is not transparent. It is not clear whether these computational measures reflect how people rate perceived emotions in musi...

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Literature Corpus work: 73e661a6-df93-59c5-add4-5c4f5ece3a23
DOI: 10.31234/osf.io/8gfzw_v2

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