Music as an Evolved Tool for Socio-Affective Fiction

New paper out in Emotion Review. Find a link to the article inside this post.

• Sascha Frühholz

Research

Link to the article
New paper published in Emotion Review by C Trevor and S Fruhholz. We propose the socio-affective fiction (SAF) hypothesis as a new theory on the evolution of music. Music presumably evolved as a signal for SAF to increase the immersive potential of storytelling and thereby better exercise people’s emotions.