The Real Answer
Does Music Control your Emotions or Do Your Emotions Control Music
Your Emotions control The Music
Music Controls Your emotions
- Emotional Contagion refers to a process whereby an emotion is induced by a piece of music because the listener perceives the emotional expression of the music, and then “mimics” this expression internally, which by means of either peripheral feedback from muscles, or a more direct activation of the relevant emotional representations in the brain, leads to an induction of the same emotion.(Juslin)
- if you feel a certain way you tend to listen to the music that reflects how your feeling.
- music is thought to link all emotional, spiritual, and physical elements on earth.(O'Donnell)
- music can strengthen or weaken emotions according to an event(O'Donnell)
- Major keys and rapid tempos cause happiness, whereas minor keys and slow tempos cause sadness, and rapid tempos together with dissonance cause fear( Vaidya).
Music And Your Emotions
By Jessica Gray