Objective: To explore the influence of different music types and personality characteristics on listeners’
emotion induction. Method: Randomly select 80 college students at school and divide them into a fast music
group and a slow music group. The musical stimulus consists of two edited classical music (a fast guitar sonata
and a slow wanderer song). An adapted music emotional experience scale (including four emotional words:
happy, sad, fear, and anger) was used to measure the emotional state of the subjects after listening to the music.
The simplified Chinese version of the Eysenck Personality Questionnaire (EPQ-RSC) was used to measure the
subjects’ extraversion and neurotic personality. Results: The type of music has a significant effect on eliciting
listeners’ happy mood, and has a significant effect on eliciting listeners’ sadness; extraverted personality has a
significant effect on eliciting listeners Happiness has a significant effect, and neurotic personality has a significant
effect on eliciting sadness in listeners. Conclusion: ① Slow music is easy to induce listeners’ negative emotions;
fast music is easy to induce listeners’ positive emotions. ② The subjects with low extroversion are more likely
to have happy emotions when listening to fast music. ③ Highly neurotic subjects are more likely to experience
sadness when listening to slow music.