Music affects how you continue with your day

Question

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3741536/

Listening to music influences your day. Walking around listening to sad music causes people to view the word in a more negative light, especially if a day is more gloomy. For example, those with depression who listen to sad music can feel worse while those without those symptoms have reported feeling better after listening to sad music as it helps them cope with their feelings.

The power of music impacts how we perceive life and our emotions.

Comments

I agree with this claim. I believe that your mood plays a big part in how you go about your day. If you happen to be listening to somber music you are bound to feel that type of way and vice versa.

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The study highlights an interesting interaction between music, mood, and perception., however, it’s always good to contextualize the data and findings further. The study suggests that sad music intensifies negative feelings in those prone to depression, it doesn’t really explore causation versus correlation. Additionally, I am curious to see more on whether the study considered cultural differences in terms of music. Sad or melancholic music can serve as a communal experience that fosters healing rather than sadness.

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The article explains that music has a powerful influence on emotions and perceptions. For individuals with depression, listening to sad music can worsen negative emotions, while those without depression may find solace in it, using it as a way to cope with feelings. Music can act as both a reflection of our current emotional state and a tool for emotional regulation, depending on how we engage with it. This highlights how music's impact is individualized and suggests the potential for using music in therapeutic contexts tailored to a person’s emotional needs.

Answer 1

According to the CNN article, there is a correlation between music and the mood of individuals. Nina Avramova, the author of this article links to this study to explain how music has been proven to affect individuals with depression. This quote from a study by Western Syndey University backs up the claim "A person with a tendency to depression, however, might listen to the same song but focus on thoughts of how love never works out for them, or how they will never be able to fall in love with anyone else. Thus, instead of feeling better, their negative thought patterns are only deepened by listening to such a song.". There is no doubt that music has an effect on the emotions of individuals but there is a lack of quantitative data to measure how much of an effect there is. For that reason, this claim can't be true or false. 

Sources: 
https://www.westernsydney.edu.au/newscentre/news_centre/story_archive/2016/sad_music_and_depression_does_it_help

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0305735616659552?journalCode=poma

https://www.apa.org/pubs/journals/releases/psp-845960.pdf

https://www.cnn.com/2019/02/08/health/music-brain-behavior-intl/index.html

Comments

This fact check is very solid as you discuss the articles claim, the study the article got its info from and then discuss that study and what it's actual claim is. You use multiple sources and prove why this claim is neither true or false.

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Really good fact check and analysis of the sources. I like the multiple sources you provide that can back or challenge the claim.

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I particularly like this factcheck because it is a personal question I have wondered for a while. I had prior belief that listening to music affects mood but the user can also simply choose to play disheartening music. I linked an article below which I found to be relevant.

https://aimm.edu/blog/how-does-music-affect-your-mood

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This is an interesting and detailed fact-check. It does a great job at providing research from credible sources, and I appreciate that you marked the claim as "can't be true or false" instead of just marking it as false, because it is a concept that might affect some differently than others. Great job!

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I think this is a great factcheck, I like how you included several sources but I especially appreciate how you said it cannot be true or false instead of just false, because it actually does differ between individuals.