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Music Hath Charms … And Can Influence Helpfulness 1
Author(s) -
Fried Rona,
Berkowitz Leonard
Publication year - 1979
Publication title -
journal of applied social psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.822
H-Index - 111
eISSN - 1559-1816
pISSN - 0021-9029
DOI - 10.1111/j.1559-1816.1979.tb02706.x
Subject(s) - helpfulness , psychology , feeling , musical , selection (genetic algorithm) , social psychology , literature , art , artificial intelligence , computer science
Eighty university students, half men and half women, were distributed evenly among 4 conditions in a one‐way design. Three of the groups heard a seven‐minute‐long musical selection, either soothing, stimulating, or aversive in nature, while the remaining subjects were not exposed to any music and sat still. Ratings indicated that the soothing and stimulating music created some‐ what different positive moods while the aversive music tended to arouse negative feelings. Those who heard the soothing music were most apt to be helpful immediately afterwards, significantly more so than the aversive music or no music subjects, perhaps because of the ideas evoked by this selection.