Psychology Facts

▲ Music ▲

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》There are few activities in life that utilizes the entire brain, and music is one of them.

》In 2014 Researchers created a game called "Hooked on Music" that featured the biggest pop hits from the 1940's till the present. The most catchiest song of all by far is The Spice Girl's Wannabe, which users only needed 2.3 seconds to identify. The average was 5 seconds!

》Listening to happy or sad music changes how we interpret facial expressions.
One study had participants listen to happy or sad music and then rate faces with happy, sad, or neutral expressions, and the music actually changed participants.
Like, neutral faces were rated as happier by people who had listened to happy music, and the opposite was true with people who'd listened to sad music.

》When we enjoy positive times such as eating, making love, or getting lit and jumping off something, we get a rush of dopamine that provides the sense of pleasure. It's been found that music heightens activity in the nucleus accumbens area of the brain that regulates dopamine release

》In 2008 psychological data was collected globally from classical fans and fans of heavy metal. It turns out there are some similarities between the two groups. They are both highly creative, extremely gentle, and confidently self-assured.

》Music in dreams is rare even for musicians. Studies have reported that only about 40% of musicians hear music in their sleep. For non-musicians that number is only 18%... Too bad, so sad! More reason to learn music theory and an instrument

》Moderate noise levels increase processing difficulty which promotes abstract processing, leading to higher creativity. (Background Ambience allows for more creativity)

》looking at each other's top ten favorite songs actually provided fairly reliable predictions as to the listener's personality traits.

For example:
Blues fans have high self-esteem, are creative, outgoing, gentle and at ease

Jazz fans have high self-esteem, are creative, outgoing and at ease

Classical music fans have high self-esteem, are creative, introvert and at ease

Rap fans have high self-esteem and are outgoing

Opera fans have high self-esteem, are creative and gentle

Country and western fans are hardworking and outgoing

Reggae fans have high self-esteem, are creative, not hardworking, outgoing, gentle and at ease

Dance fans are creative and outgoing but not gentle

Indie fans have low self-esteem, are creative, not hard working, and not gentle

Bollywood fans are creative and outgoing

Rock/heavy metal fans have low self-esteem, are creative, not hard-working, not outgoing, gentle, and at ease

Chart pop fans have high self-esteem, are hardworking, outgoing and gentle, but are not creative and not at ease

Soul fans have high self-esteem, are creative, outgoing, gentle, and at ease

》Of course, music often triggers memories in people and, it turns out, it can do the same thing in people who have impaired memories. In one 2013 study, a handful of people who had brain injuries scored higher on a test of autobiographical memories while listening to a playlist containing number one hit songs from 1960 through 2010.

》 There's a certain type of music we associate with horror films, right? Like, in addition to minor chords, you might remember the use of high-pitched sounds in movies like Jaws and The Shining. Well, it turns out these sound a lot like the screeches of baby animals. Experts think the reason the music is making us feel uneasy is because we are biologically programmed to feel endangered when we hear those sounds