{"id":152,"date":"2014-02-20T14:37:37","date_gmt":"2014-02-20T14:37:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/?p=152"},"modified":"2015-01-27T10:09:05","modified_gmt":"2015-01-27T10:09:05","slug":"beautiful-but-sad-music-can-help-people-feel-better","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/2014\/02\/20\/beautiful-but-sad-music-can-help-people-feel-better\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Beautiful but sad&#8217; music can help people feel better"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>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 &#8216;beautiful but sad&#8217; can help people feel better when they&#8217;re feeling blue.<\/p>\n<p>The research investigated the effects of what the researchers described as Self-Identified Sad Music (SISM) on people&#8217;s moods, paying particular attention to their reasons for choosing a particular piece of music when they were experiencing sadness &#8211; and the effect it had on them.<\/p>\n<p>Read the article online and find out what the investigators had to say about their findings in their <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/news\/society\/300\/beautiful-but-sad-music-can-help-people-feel-better\">press release<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/2014\/02\/20\/beautiful-but-sad-music-can-help-people-feel-better\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14802,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3684,70],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14802"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=152"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":166,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152\/revisions\/166"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/psychology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}