# Music and Emotion- Seven Questions, Seven Answers Patrik N. Juslin **Opening (not a real abstract):** Seven Questions, Seven Answers Patrik N. Juslin From a lay person’s perspective, few issues in music psychology are more important than to explain how music evokes emotions in listeners. This is because such experiences are one of the primary reasons for engaging with music. Perhaps it may be a surprise to learn, then, that systematic efforts to understand emotions to music are quite recent (Juslin & Sloboda, 2010). Shaped by its origin in late 19th century general psychology with its focus on psychophysics and experimental control, music psychology mostly came to explore more ‘basic’ perceptual and cognitive processes involved in music listening (Deutsch, 1999). Sloboda was one of the driving forces in establishing ‘music cognition’ as a thriving research field in the 1980s. Yet, by the time his influential book, The Musical Mind (Sloboda, 1985), began to have an impact **Authors:** [[Seven Questions, Seven Answers]]