Studies have shown that music can evoke a variety of emotions, including joy, fear and happiness. It has been suggested that self-chosen music has a positive effect on behavior and mood in patients with Alzheimer’s disease (AD), possibly because music can evoke pleasant memories from life events. Our study will examine if music can induce feelings and emotions in patients with AD, and if these can persist long after patients have forgotten the emotion-inducing event. Before conducting the study with patients with AD, we tested whether feelings of sadness and happiness could be induced with music in healthy younger adults, in order to evaluate the effectiveness of our stimuli at inducing feelings. Six healthy younger adults participated in the pilot study (Mage = 22.5, SDage = 3.8; 4 males, 2 females). Days before the experiment, participants were instructed to create a list of 10 songs that made them feel happy and 10 songs that made them feel sad. An emotion measure was administered before the onset of music, and immediately, 10 m,inutes and 20 minutes after the end of the playlist. A recognition test was administered five minutes after the end of the playlist. After a short break, the entire procedure was repeated with the happy playlist. Participants reported an increase in happiness and sadness after listening to the self-chosen music. The findings of this study propose that self-chosen music can evoke somewhat sustained emotions in healthy young adults. This suggests that the study design is appropriate for emotion induction.