Listen To Sad Songs, But Why Do We Feel Good: The Science Of Listening To Music

Posted by basshopper on June 11th, 2019

Education 'Music is a positive emotional stimulation through personal memories'. It is found that if we think back to sadness in the context of music, such as listening to music that makes reminiscent of that sadness. It appears that we may 'perceive' the emotions that occur at the present time as enjoyment. Both the necessity and the true sadness.

The important 'power' of music is that it stimulates positive emotions. If more personal memories are shared, the more intense Whatever the memory is good or sad.

Have you ever wondered why when we listen to music that reminds me of a sad past? We were able to feel 'happy' when it was really sad.

In this study, there is a key word, the word Paradox of Art or the revolution of art. That is, he studied that even the so-called "sadness", whether psychological or whatever, would see sadness as a negative emotional state. But if we think back to those sadness in the context of music, such as listening to music that makes the reminder of that sadness It appears that we may 'perceive' the emotions that occur at the present time as enjoyment. Both the necessity and the true sadness.

The survey that corresponds to another report in the Scientific Reports is a report called the Memory in Inducing Pleasure Emotions with Musical Pictorial Stimuli or the effect of memory in stimulating and stimulating with musical stimuli.

We have known for a long time that the 'good mood' is stimulated by many stimuli, but there is still no study using empirical evidence. This study therefore tries to study 'music' compared to 'images that see' what makes people feel better.

Important questions in this research are 2 questions:

1. Do memories of past stories contribute to intense emotions while listening to music?

2. The mood that has been stimulated by the music is getting stronger. If there are personal memories involved

Found that the answer to both questions is yes Which clearly shows that the important 'power' of music is that it stimulates positive emotions If more personal memories are shared, the more intense Whatever the memory is good or sad.

This study was done by asking participants to listen to various songs. With the measurement of brain waves That is the study that brings neuroscience. (Neuroscience) came to join hands with psychology To find answers to stories related to human life.

The songs that the participants listened to were divided into 4 types:
Songs that participants try to bring themselves Is a song related to personal memories such as songs that have been heard with lovers Music that Mom had lulled to listen Christmas songs that listen to children, etc., but are songs that remind of old times happiness.

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Positive emotional stimulation songs that do not relate to the participants' original memories, such as modern dance music. Music with fun rhythm Non-sad songs.

The songs that have been heard cause sadness, dissatisfaction, disappointment, etc. which are caused due to disappointment. Whether it's music that is listening to lovers But the lover left or died The music that was heard when heartbroken The music of the mother's funeral, etc., is a song about memories. But did not make a good mood directly.

Sad songs, but not related to the memories of the participants
If it was in the past We may have to ask the participants to listen to different types of music. How does it feel Which may give false results But when measuring brain waves We will automatically know what the participants think about, or how they feel about the song. By looking at the brain activity that occurs automatically.

In science, this process is called Induction Mechanism or induction mechanism. Is that there will be a stimulus to induce our emotions to feel something There are many mechanisms that can be used. From seeing some stories about imagination or physical experience Including self-expression that you perceive as well But the most influential thing is the 'buried' memories in the various parts of the brain. The most influential thing to remember is the music.