What Type Of Music Makes People Happiest?
Monday, October 11, 2010 - 08:30
in Psychology & Sociology
Music has a remarkable ability to conjure up strong emotions in people. It can cheer you up, bring you down, and in the case of boybands, cause severe anger and disgust. And it’s old; some scientists believe music even predates language, this based on flute-like instruments dug up in France, believed to be over 50,000 years old. But music is a bit of an evolutionary puzzle. It’s hard to think of any survival value it may have brought us; a niche it filled better than any other human faculty. So why do we love music so much? What’s going in inside our skulls when we hear music we enjoy? What music makes the best pick-me-up? read more