Why don’t we just listen to happy music when we feel depressed then? Our study showed that even when people reported feeling more depressed after listening to sad music, they still tended to ...

Queen’s Don’t Stop Me Now was the world’s ... and the Hebrew University concluded that severely depressed people preferred to listen to music that was a downer. The researchers offered ...

Music therapists can meet the spiritual, psychological and aesthetic needs of the afflicted ... Soon the patient and I were leaning back, listening to the plucked strings accompanying Ms. Caudill ...

But we tend to find it pleasurable in an aesthetic context, which is known as the paradox of enjoying sad music. What is the nature of the pleasure that people experience from listening to sad music?

Have you ever been listening to a great piece of music and felt a chill run up your ... (pronounced free-sawn), a French term meaning “aesthetic chills,” and it feels like waves of pleasure ...