Comments on: Seven Ways Music Influences Mood

By: sam pap

sam pap — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 12:59:54 +0000

Being a teen and I believe music is a way of chilling out, relieving stress, regulating and improving mood and a basic tool for socialising within different environments such as house parties. I believe that the types of music a person likes can tell you alot about that person.

By: John Locke

John Locke — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 15:53:03 +0000

well as an avid heavy metal/screamo listener i would like to say that people listen to this kind of music because it exspresses how they feel how they want to explode and heavy metal really isnt deprresing that is a terrible rumor heavy metal has been one of my biggest inspirations in me writing my own music and instead of trying so hard to study y teens like it y not jus ask they so much easier lol good luck on that study in Malaysia.

By: Dean Render

Dean Render — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 14:35:00 +0000

as a teen i belive that teens listen to music as a way to cope with the stress of life but i also belive that there are teens out there that do listen to heavy music to bring out negitive feelings for either pleasure or pain to self.

By: Jeremy (PsyBlog author)

Jeremy (PsyBlog author) — Sat, 01 Sep 2007 11:30:00 +0000

Matt, yes, self-report data like this is not going to be able to get at the question you're asking here. My guess is it'll be difficult to separate causal directions - music and emotion probably feed into each other.

(Did you mean to write social psychologits? I guess not, but funny typo!)

By: Matt Munro

Matt Munro — Fri, 31 Aug 2007 14:37:00 +0000

I think there is an issue here with mood congruence and direction of effect. By this I mean supposing a teenager listens to a lot of thrash/grunge/death metal. Is he doing this as a way of evoking and then dealing with negative emotions in a socially acceptable way, or is the music itself creating those negative emotions ? Does choice of music reflect mental state, or create it, from what I can remember of memory research the former is likely, but many in the media, and possibly many social psychologits would argue that it is the media (in this case the music) which creates mental states.

By: Jeremy (PsyBlog author)

Jeremy (PsyBlog author) — Thu, 26 Jul 2007 07:38:00 +0000

Glad it is useful for you. Good luck with your research - hope it goes well.

By: daengmerewah

daengmerewah — Thu, 26 Jul 2007 07:03:00 +0000

thanks for the info. Currently I am investigating music preferences and empathy here in Malaysia.

Or perhaps we could do cross-cultural study regarding the issue
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