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Anticipation
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Anticipation is an emotion involving pleasure, excitement, or anxiety in considering an expected

event.

Contents
1 As a defence mechanism
2 Desire
3 In music
4 In phenomenology
5 In Pop Culture
6 See also Anticipation is the process of
7 References imaginative speculation about the
8 External links future. The brain uses
information about gravity,
curvature, obstacles etc. to make
a prediction.
As a defence mechanism
Robin Skynner considered anticipation as one of "the mature ways of dealing with real stress....
You reduce the stress of some difficult challenge by anticipating what it will be like and preparing
for how you are going to deal with it".[1] There is evidence that "the use of mature defenses
(sublimation, anticipation) tended to increase with age".[2]

Desire
"Anticipation is the central ingredient in sexual desire."[3] As "sex has a major cognitive
component the most important element for desire is positive anticipation".[4] One name for
pleasurable anticipation is excitement.

More generally, anticipation is a central motivating force in everyday life "the normal process of
imaginative anticipation of, or speculation about, the future".[5] To enjoy one's life, "one needs a
belief in Time as a promising medium to do things in; one needs to be able to suffer the pains and
pleasures of anticipation and deferral".[6]

In music
There are a number of theories explaining anticipation in music. Two prominent theories are the

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Neurological theories of Chase that attribute expectation building and anticipation both to inherent
Neurological pitch evolution (Darwinian selection as pitch/rhythm/harmony communication
response expectation) and the related skillful use of chord sequences (holding V7 until expectations
are met with E,A, B7, or the well known Am/D7/G tease-satisfy sequence, with variations in the
wheel of fifths).

A second well accepted theory is Huron's "ITPRA" 5 module theory of expectation, where previous
imaginative tension hits the event onset/horizon, with prediction and reaction oscillating
(alternating) in the response system, and resulting in appraisal feedback.[7][8]

From a global perspective, even given thousands of varying scale types worldwide, there is a
universal human sense of satisfaction in the return to that scale's tonic (for example, C, in the major
scale, key, and tonic of C major).[9]

In the context of the broader topic of Music and emotion, Juslin & Vstfjll's BRECVEM model
includes, as its seventh element, Musical expectation.[10]

Technically, anticipation also refers specifically to a type of nonchord tone.

Note: this section refers to the process of generating the thought or feeling of anticipation in music.
For titles of songs with the word Anticipation, see Anticipation (disambiguation).

In phenomenology
For phenomenological philosopher Edmund Husserl, anticipation is an essential feature of human
action. "In every action we know the goal in advance in the form of an anticipation that is 'empty',
in the sense of vague...and [we] seek by our action to bring it step by step to concrete
realization".[11]

Anticipation can be shown in many ways; for example, some people seem to smile uncontrollably
during this period, while others seem ill or sick. It is not uncommon for the brain to be so focused
on an event, that the body is affected in such a way. Stage fright is a type of anticipation, stemming
from the actor or actress hoping that they perform well.

In Pop Culture
The musical The Rocky Horror Show and subsequent movie are used the phrase in a literal way,
with Dr. Frank-N-Furter saying "I see you shiver with antici.......pation" (holding the breath
between antici- and -pation for several seconds) during Sweet Transvestite. Since the movie
became a Cult film, it has become one of the most iconic and highly quoted lines.

See also

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Prediction
Expectation (epistemic)
Hope
Optimism
Faith
Confidence
Delayed gratification

References
1. Robin Skynner/John Cleese, Life and how to survive it (London 1994) p. 55
2. Hope R.Conte/Robert Plutchik, Ego Defenses (1995) p. 127
3. Barry and Emily McCarthy, Rekindling Desire (2003) p. 89
4. McCarthy, p. 12
5. Clon Campbell, The Romantic Ethic and the Spirit of Modern Consumerism (2005) p. 83
6. Adam Phillips, On Flirtation (London 1994) p. 47
7. Wayne Chase, "How Music Really Works" (Vancouver, 2006), ISBN 1-897311-55-9, pp. 434, 621
8. David Huron,"Sweet Anticipation, Music and the psychology of expectation" (Cambridge, 2006), ISBN
978-0-262-58278-0, p.17
9. Michael Hewitt,"Musical Scales of the World" (London, 2013), ISBN 978-095-7547-001, p. 11 et. al
10. Juslin, Liljestrm, Vstfjll, & Lundqvist. (2010). How does music evoke emotions? Exploring the
underlying mechanisms. In P.N. Juslin & J. Sloboda (Eds.), Handbook of Music and Emotion: Theory,
Research, and Applications (pp. 605-642). Oxford: Oxford University Press, ISBN 978-0199604968.
11. E. Husserl, in Alfred Schutz, The Phenomenology of the Social World (Illinois 1997), p. 58

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