The reason I have different musical playlists for different emotions is because certain songs bring about certain memories within my mind, which then cause a resurgence of that emotion I felt within that experience or an isolated present emotion in remembering how that experience felt in the past.
It can also be a thing of a song just having great sound design, that it causes me to feel either "joyful" or "intense strength" in that moment.
The below snippet, in additional support to this principle, is taken from this article here:
3. Pavlovian Association Ivan Pavlov very effectively demonstrated that animals can respond not just to direct incentives but also to associated objects; remember the famous dogs salivating at the ring of a bell. Human beings are much the same and can feel positive and negative emotion towards intangible objects, with the emotion coming from past associations rather than direct effects. [THE REASON WE HAVE MUSICAL SONGS AS TRIGGERS FOR CERTAIN EMOTIONS]
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