Measuring Emotional Experiences to Music – Content Validity Assessment for Episode Model Constructs
This repository offers data and analyses related to the study titled “Measuring Emotional Experiences with Music – Content Validity Assessment for Episode Model Constructs, (in press).
Kirts, C., Saarikallio, S., Anderson, C. J., Bannister, S., Céspedes-Guevara, J., Heng, G. J., Henry, N., Jakubowski, K., Koehler, F., Krause, A. E., Lennie, T. M., Martínez, I. C., O’Neill, K., Warrenburg, L., & Eerola, T. (2026). Measuring Emotional Experiences with Music – Content Validity Assessment for Episode Model Constructs. Music & Science.
@article{kirts2026a,
author = {Connor Kirts and Suvi Saarikallio and Cameron J. Anderson and Scott Bannister and Julian C{\'e}spedes-Guevara and Gladys J. Heng and Noah Henry and Kelly Jakubowski and Friederike Koehler and Amanda E. Krause and Thomas M. Lennie and Isabel Cecilia Mart{\'\i}nez and Katherine O'Neill and Lindsay Warrenburg and Tuomas Eerola},
doi = {https://doi.org/10.1177/20592043251413550},
journal = {Music & Science},
title = {Measuring Emotional Experiences with Music -- Content Validity Assessment for Episode Model Constructs},
year = {2026}
}This instrument is related to a recent theory concerning emotional episodes related to music (Eerola, Kirts & Saarikallio, 2025).
The public-facing version of the repository is available at https://tuomaseerola.github.io/MIMEE/.
Three main analytical operations are documented in the repo.
Semantic similarity analysis
- Item similarity analysis was used to trim the number of items from 495 to 336.
- Item similarity visualisation shows the output of the analysis.
Expert evaluation resource document
This 10-page document contains the briefing, schedule and the definitions for the subject-matter experts. Expert_Resource_Document.pdf.
Expert evaluations: round 1
- Expert Evaluations: Round 1 contains the analysis of all proposed items by 14 subject matter specialists.
- Item decisions contains a long summary concerning item details and feedback from the experts.
Expert evaluations: round 2
- Expert Evaluations: Round 2 contains the analysis of all proposed items by 14 subject matter specialists.
- Expert Evaluations: Round 2 representativeness contains the analysis of representative items as denoted by subject matter specialists.
- Expert Evaluations: Round 2 representativeness - Table 4 contains the top N (2 at the moment) representative items for each sub-construct.
References
- Eerola, T., Kirts, C., & Saarikallio, S. (2025). Episode model: The functional approach to emotional experiences of music. Psychology of Music, 53(3), 590-615. https://doi.org/10.1177/03057356241279763