Emotional and Neurohumoral Responses to Dancing Tango Argentino: The Effects of Music and Partner. Quiroga Murcia, C., Bongard, S., & Kreutz, G.
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The present study examines the emotional and hormonal responses to tango dancing and the specific influences of the presence of music and partner on these responses. Twenty-two tango dancers were assessed within four conditions, in which the presence of music and a dance partner while dancing were varied in a 2  2design. Before each condition and 5 minutes thereafter, partici- pants provided salivary samples for analysis of cortisol and testosterone concentrations and completed the Pos- itive and Negative Affect Schedule. The data suggest that motion with a partner to music has more positive effects niversity Libraries on December 16, 2011 on emotional state than motion withoutmusic orwithout a partner.Moreover, decreases of cortisol concentrations were found with the presence of music, whereas increases of testosterone levels were associated with the presence of a partner. The authors' work gives evidence of short-term positive psychobiological reactions after tango dancing and contributes to understanding the differential influence of music and partner.
@ARTICLE{QuirogaMurcia2009,
  ABSTRACT = {The present study examines the emotional and hormonal responses to tango dancing and the specific influences of the presence of music and partner on these responses. Twenty-two tango dancers were assessed within four conditions, in which the presence of music and a dance partner while dancing were varied in a 2  2design. Before each condition and 5 minutes thereafter, partici- pants provided salivary samples for analysis of cortisol and testosterone concentrations and completed the Pos- itive and Negative Affect Schedule. The data suggest that motion with a partner to music has more positive effects niversity Libraries on December 16, 2011 on emotional state than motion withoutmusic orwithout a partner.Moreover, decreases of cortisol concentrations were found with the presence of music, whereas increases of testosterone levels were associated with the presence of a partner. The authors' work gives evidence of short-term positive psychobiological reactions after tango dancing and contributes to understanding the differential influence of music and partner.},
  AUTHOR = {{Quiroga Murcia}, Cynthia and Bongard, Stephan and Kreutz, Gunter},
  DATE = {2009},
  DOI = {10.1177/1943862109335064},
  ISSN = {1943863X},
  JOURNALTITLE = {Music {\ldots} Medicine},
  KEYWORDS = {cortisol,dance,emotional state,music,testosterone},
  TITLE = {{Emotional and Neurohumoral Responses to Dancing Tango Argentino: The Effects of Music and Partner}},
}

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