Does music affect your mood? Do you like to get revved up for a Saturday night out cranking The Stooges, spend a Sunday morning coming down to Leonard Cohen, or bawling your eyes out to The Smiths after a breakup? Well, enquiring minds want to know more. Psychological research is being conducted at Swinburne University in Melbourne into the effects of music regulating your mood and they’ve asked if Tone Deaf’s readers would mind helping out with it. The study is conducted online, is completely anonymous and has been approved by the University’s ethics department. If you’re Australian and over 18 and can spare some time to help out – details are below.
Music has been studied scientifically for around 200 years, yet there are still large gaps in our literature. It has long been known that music elicits physical experiences in people and some individuals report profound emotional experiences during listening. Whilst it seems intuitive that people would use music as a tool to regulate their affective state, there is a surprisingly small amount of scientific data to validate this intuition. The literature is especially lacking when it comes to looking at different ways people use music to regulate their mood.
A current research study, being conducted as part of a fourth year psychology honours thesis, proposes to explore the interaction between personality and the different strategies people use to regulate their mood with music. To date, there has been little research which examines these interactions.
Interested in contributing to the research? Participation is anonymous and can be done online at a time that suits you. Please follow the link for more information http://opinio.online.swin.edu.au/s?s=8961
or alternatively, you may contact the investigator Meg Walsh at [email protected]
