Participants in a study at Montreal’s McGill University listened to their favorite songs with a thermal simulation on their left forearm. After Michelle Yang pulled on a pair of headphones to listen to one of her favorite songs — Taylor Swift’s “Cruel Summer” — she felt a flash of pain on her left forearm.
“There is a little bit of a mystery surrounding music,” Mathieu Roy, one of the study’s lead researchers and a McGill University psychology professor, told The Washington Post. “It’s not clear why we experience such strong emotional experiences when we listen.”found that acute pain decreased when people had control over which songs they were listening to.
Researchers interviewed participants afterward and found the songs that most reduced pain induced an emotion in the listener — feeling happy, sad, understood or powerful.” told researchers that they “find a lot of connection with the meaning of the song,” according to the study. Another who listened to Andy Grammer’s “” told researchers that they cried when they first heard the song and it has a “really big emotional impact” on them, the study said.
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