# Apart from Baranowski & Hecht, what do open sound-context studies (Ansani et al. 2020; Wiking 2024) report about music or sound changing how a character or a face is judged, and how reliable are they?

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Two open sources add sound-context evidence, neither a neutral-face replication of Baranowski & Hecht. Ansani et al. 2020 (N=118 online, then N=92 in lab) put a 1 min 55 s scene from a short film with a character walking under three soundtracks (melancholic jazz piano, anxious orchestral, ambient control) and found music shifted empathy toward the character, some personality impressions, plot expectations and perceived coziness of the setting, but not the omnibus ratings of the character's affective state (only the single item 'wistful'). Wiking 2024 is a Swedish bachelor thesis with 20 volunteers and open-ended answers to silent versus sound-accompanied face clips; it reports no statistics, its methods text and analysis text disagree in places, and its main observation (child laughter read as irritation or sadness) is anecdotal. An open search found no further open-access experiment that places music under a neutral face (bounded: four OpenAlex queries, top 10 each).

Two open sources add sound-context evidence, neither a neutral-face replication of Baranowski & Hecht. Ansani et al. 2020 (N=118 online, then N=92 in lab) put a 1 min 55 s scene from a short film with a character walking under three soundtracks (melancholic jazz piano, anxious orchestral, ambient control) and found music shifted empathy toward the character, some personality impressions, plot expectations and perceived coziness of the setting, but not the omnibus ratings of the character's affective state (only the single item 'wistful'). Wiking 2024 is a Swedish bachelor thesis with 20 volunteers and open-ended answers to silent versus sound-accompanied face clips; it reports no statistics, its methods text and analysis text disagree in places, and its main observation (child laughter read as irritation or sadness) is anecdotal. An open search found no further open-access experiment that places music under a neutral face (bounded: four OpenAlex queries, top 10 each).

Curator qualifications: Curator amendment CA-AM-0035 (2026-10-22): Curator error: the Wiking thesis (S18) work copy was present as work/sound2025.pdf (sha256 59e38e547179305a..., 3085512 bytes, equal to the S18 pin) with text sound2025.txt. C3R-0240 missed it because of the file name. The Wiking claims are now verified in C3R-0273.

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- [sourced_fact] Two open sources add sound-context evidence, neither a neutral-face replication of Baranowski & Hecht. Ansani et al. 2020 (N=118 online, then N=92 in lab) put a 1 min 55 s scene from a short film with a character walking under three soundtracks (melancholic jazz piano, anxious orchestral, ambient control) and found music shifted empathy toward the character, some personality impressions, plot expectations and perceived coziness of the setting, but not the omnibus ratings of the character's affective state (only the single item 'wistful'). Wiking 2024 is a Swedish bachelor thesis with 20 volunteers and open-ended answers to silent versus sound-accompanied face clips; it reports no statistics, its methods text and analysis text disagree in places, and its main observation (child laughter read as irritation or sadness) is anecdotal. An open search found no further open-access experiment that places music under a neutral face (bounded: four OpenAlex queries, top 10 each). · locator: Metod 4.2-4.3; 5.1-5.5; whole-text term scan · source: https://www.ebi.ac.uk/europepmc/webservices/rest/PMC7575867/fullTextXML

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