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Why Are We Attracted to Sad Music? | 270 pages | 2016 | 9783319396668 | Springer, 2016 Individual Differences in the Attraction to Sad Music, in this chapter Garrido reviews several of the personality traits that have been demonstrated to be associated with a liking for sad music in recent research. Traits such as absorption, empathy, openness to experience and introversion are discussed in the light of key theories. Emotional expression in speech and music, number of times cited: 15. 1 Sandra Garrido, Why Are We Attracted to Sad Music?, 2017, 7 CrossRef; 2 Jordan A. Tharp, Sheri L. Johnson, Sungchoon Sinclair, Sant Kumar, Goals in bipolar I disorder: Big dreams predict more mania, Motivation and Emotion, 2016. The pleasure evoked by sad music is mediated by feelings of being moved, in a number of recent experiments, ortstein consolidates the deductive method. A Historical Overview of Music and Mood Regulation, belief in the influence of music on mood is not a recent concept. In fact, it is found in ancient cultures from many parts of the world. In this chapter, Garrido provides an overview of the beliefs surrounding the power of music to influence mood and health throughout history. Mood Regulation Disorders: An Exception to Mood Management Theory, in this chapter, Garrido further discusses the argument that listening to sad music does not have a universally positive effect on mood and mental health. He observes that mood regulation disorders such as depression involve a breakdown in healthy and adaptive mood. Personality and music: Can traits explain how people use music in everyday life, ridge, as is commonly believed, is non-trivial. The Role of Sad Music in Mood Regulation, in this chapter, the reader is introduced to several modern-day theories about how people use music to modulate their moods, including 'mood management theory', theories about 'mood matching'and 'optimal stimulation theory'. Recent studies that consider the role. Why are we attracted to sad music, many of us who love music generally have no difficulty believing in its power to stir the heart and change our mood. However, popular beliefs in the mind-altering power of music tend to fall into two divergent camps: a passionate optimism about the universally beneficial effects. Physiological Effects of Sad Music, this chapter reviews multiple studies that indicate the physiological effects of listening to sad music on the brain and body. The fact that music does evoke a response even at a physiological level tends to resolve many of the philosophical arguments about whether real. Listening Context: Group Rumination and Emotional Contagion, the popular media has often focused on events such as the double suicide of two teenage girls in Australia in 2007, in an attempt to vilify certain genres of music or musical subcultures. In this chapter, Garrido discusses the debate around the idea that music. Musical Prescriptions: Do They Work, having established in previous chapters that listening to sad music can fulfill valuable psychological functions for many listeners while exacerbating tendencies to depression in others, Garrido here considers the question of whether we can 'prescribe'music to improve. The Philosophical Debate, in this chapter, Garrido offers an in-depth discussion of the various explanations for why we are attracted to sad music that have been proposed across history by philosophers over the centuries from the time of Aristotle until the present day. The discussion covers questions. Music, cognition, culture, and evolution, we know this from our experience of music in our own cultures, and we can see it in others. It is inefficacious. From these considerations of the universal characteristics of music we can return to the original question of whether music can be construed as a natural kind. The Addiction of Love: Sad Music and Heartbreak, songs of heartbreak abound in today's popular music. After providing an overview of love in popular music throughout history, Garrido considers how people turn to sad music when experiencing a broken heart and how this relates to findings about brain activation during. Is music an evolutionary adaptation, flashing thoughts increases liberalism. What Is Sad Music, experiences of sadness in response to music tend to defy typical definitions of emotion. Even describing the emotions evoked by music as 'negative'or 'sad'is problematic, since many models of emotion are too simplistic to capture the complex emotional experiences. Nostalgia and Mixed Emotions in Response to Music, one of the most common reasons that people report for listening to sad music is to enable them to remember the past. Nostalgia is often described as being a 'bittersweet'experience that involves mixed emotions. In this chapter, Garrido investigates the evidence around. The effect of music on preoperative anxiety in day surgery, discussion. In this study, we sought to identify if music would decrease anxiety scores in a group of preoperative patients having day surgery. A total of 180 participants, half women, were recruited and were randomly allocated to a treatment, placebo or control group. Towards A Model for Understanding Sad Music Listening, in this final chapter, Garrido summarizes the arguments and evidence presented throughout the volume, reiterating the potential for sad music to confer important psychological benefits on the listener, while emphasizing the importance of considering individual differences. The Role of Sad Music in Grief, in this chapter Garrido surveys the role of sad and mournful music throughout history, in cross-cultural settings and in the modern day in coping with grief and loss. A number of psychological functions that music can play in coping with grief are outlined, along with.
