Joydeep Bhattacharya and Job Lindsen, two professors from the department of phsychology in the University of London, carried out a series of experiments that relate the music with the way people sees the world.
Specifically, they performed three different experiments:
In the first on, they showed a grey square to a group of twenty adults for one second, and right after they made them listen to a nine to seventeen seconds track. After this, they asked them to evaluate the music on a scale from "very unpleasant" to "very stimulating". Straightawat, thet showed them another grey square (which was actually the same as the first one), and the people who had rated the music as "very stimulating" described the square as if it was brighter than the people who rated it as "very unpleasant".
The
second experiment, performed with a new group of twenty people, was
the same but with the difference that they didn't ask the
participants to evaluate the music before the second square showing.
The results were the same: the participants that had listened to the
track the researchers had judged as happy described the square as
brighter than the ones who listened to sad music.
The
last experiment consisted of twenty adults again, who had to learn a
grey scale of colours. After they had learned it, they were played
music of different styles and afterwards the researchers showed them
a grey square and they judged it to be brighter as it actually was on
the original scale.
With
these three experiments, the researches got to the conclusion that
music changes our way of seeing the world and it makes us see the
things in a more positive way, that's why music could be used, and it
is actually used in some occasions, as a therapy for those who suffer
from different kinds of depression.
PERSONAL OPINION:
I
have found these experiments very curious and they are a good way to
demonstrate the power of music and the impact it has on our brain. As
it has been shown with the experiments, I think music in general
helps people being more positive, but if it is happy music this
effect increases greatly. And I think that this is awesome, because
it's a simple way to cheer yourself up and to get motivated, that's
why I think listening to music in the morning is a good way to start
the day better, with more energy and positivity.
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