Before starting the experiment, all forty-five panellists listened
to the first minute of each genre's representative song (re: Table 1)
and then made a preference rating using an unstructured 100 mm
line scale anchored with “extremely disliked” on the left and
“extremely liked” on the right. After rating all 14 genres, the highest
liking score given by each panellist was taken to be their most liked
piece of music. The lowest liking score was considered their disliked
music, while the song with a rating closest to 50 was classed
as the neutrally liked music. It is important to note that for this
study individual variation in music preference was taken into account
(see Table 2). Hence the music set (liked, disliked, and
neutrally liked music) played for each individual as they consumed
gelati likely varied across panellists.