By Aditya Shukla, psychologist and guitarist
Simple forms of excitement, familiarity, and energy. It's popular, so it doesn't create surprise.
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Complex levels of high intensity and seriousness. Feelings of being unresolved, unstable, anxiety, and chaotic.
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Conveys familiarity and social bonding + simple forms of happiness and joy. Easy to process. Shows stability and brightness.
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Conveys mild violation of expectations and creates hope. Feelings associated with stability, simple creativity, and optimism, but realistic optimism.
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Conveys mystery and tension, in a positive and negative way. It's familiar because of common use but still conveys a sense of uncertainty.
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Combines properties of the major and minor in a fluid sound. Feels complete, uplifting, dominating, and confident.
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Conveys warmth and simplicity with a touch of heaviness, and a positive form of tension. If it were a type of stone, it's a big boulder getting baked in the sun.
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