Cheerful Music Boosts Your Mood and Makes You Feel Happy Almost Instantly
Happy music not only give your brain a boost, but also makes you feel happy and makes you feel that everyone else around you happy too. Study finds
The study has also find that after you listen to happy music, it takes only 50 milliseconds to change your mood from sadness to happ9ness, brain waves revealed that the effect of the music was almost instantaneous.
On the other hand, if you listen to sad or depressing music, people would notice the depression on your face expressions.
The study was conducted by psychologists at Goldsmiths, University of London.
“What surprises us is that even as short as fifteen seconds of music can cause this effect. However more research is needed to find how long the effect lasts or if, and how, other factors such as musical preference and personality control this,” Dr Joydeep Bhattacharya one of the authors of the paper. Telegraph.com
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