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The emotional state of being moved, though frequently referred to in both classical rhetoric and current language use, is far from established as a well-defined psychological construct. In a series of three studies, we investigated eliciting scenarios, emotional ingredients, appraisal patterns, feeling qualities, and the affective signature of being moved and related emotional states. The great majority of the eliciting scenarios can be assigned to significant relationship and critical life events (especially death, birth, marriage, separation, and reunion). Sadness and joy turned out to be the two preeminent emotions involved in episodes of being moved. Both the sad and the joyful variants of being moved showed a coactivation of positive and negative affect and can thus be ranked among the mixed emotions. Moreover, being moved, while featuring only low-to-mid arousal levels, was experienced as an emotional state of high intensity; this applied to responses to fictional artworks no less than to own-life and other real, but media-represented, events. The most distinctive findings regarding cognitive appraisal dimensions were very low ratings for causation of the event by oneself and for having the power to change its outcome, along with very high ratings for appraisals of compatibility with social norms and self-ideals. Putting together the characteristics identified and discussed throughout the three studies, the paper ends with a sketch of a psychological construct of being moved.
Benjamins Theorie ist als Bilddenken bekannt; vermutlich ist das der Grund, warum seine musiktheoretischen Ausführungen bislang wenig Beachtung gefunden haben: die Überlegungen des jungen Benjamin zur Musik, die ein Seitenstück zur sprachtheoretischen Grundlegung seines Denkens überhaupt darstellen, ebenso wenig wie die Auseinandersetzung mit der Oper. Das Thema der Oper klingt bei ihm an verschiedenen Stellen an, so etwa in "Goethes Wahlverwandtschaften", am explizitesten aber im Trauerspielbuch, in jenem Abschnitt des zweiten Teils des Kapitels "Allegorie und Trauerspiel", der der vielzitierten Diskussion zum Zusammenhang von Klangfigur und Schrift anhand von Johann Wilhelm Ritters Buch Fragmente aus dem Nachlass eines jungen Physikers (1810) vorausgeht. Da es sich hierbei um Überlegungen zum Thema der Musik handelt, insbesondere über die Oper, sollen diese am Anfang stehen.