New research from Lecturer in Social Psychology, Dr Annemieke Van den Tol and Professor Jane Edwards of the University of Limerick has found that music that is felt to be ‘beautiful but sad’ can help people feel better when they’re feeling blue.
The research investigated the effects of what the researchers described as Self-Identified Sad Music (SISM) on people’s moods, paying particular attention to their reasons for choosing a particular piece of music when they were experiencing sadness – and the effect it had on them.
Read the article online and find out what the investigators had to say about their findings in their press release.