Claim: Music can positively and negatively affect your mind, mood and body.

Question

According to Tallahassee Memorial Healthcare, listening to music can enhance the current mood and deter or enhance negative feelings.

Answer 1

The claim that music can affect moods in the provided article is true. The source itself is trustworthy, as Tallahassee Memorial Healthcare is a registered organization, and the authors of the work are certified music therapists, which supports a reliable explanation. The article refers to the 'Iso Principle' as its backing, which for the most part has been proven true through studies and experiments. Source: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/10298649231175029?download=true&journalCode=msxa#:~:text=We%20conclude%20that%20listening%20to,effective%20in%20modulating%20affective%20state. Through the Iso principle the concept of music and moods being connected has been explored by many publications, with examples including Pfizer and Psychology Today

Comments

Good job at providing exterior sources for me to look at instead of keeping one singular link. The credibility of the institution is important, so I'm glad you provided some background on the as well.

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Great job on your insightful response and supporting sources. I agree with your statement that music can most definitely affect a person's mood and emotion, this article from AIMM discusses the potential as music for therapy. This article claims that the power of music is strong enough to even "manage mental stress, boost memory, and even eliminate pain."

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

Answer 2

This claim comes from a pretty reputable source, Tallahassee Memorial Healthcare, a non profit community health care system based in Florida. They often publish articles like the one that the claim is from about healthy living tips.  

This is not the only place that this claim can be found, when you google the claim you get results from CNN (which cites reputable studies), John Hopkins Medicine, and many others. 

I believe that this claim is true, its original source is reputable and many other sources confirm and back up the information. There doesn’t seem to be antyhgin that questions the truthfulness of the claim. 

https://www.tmh.org/

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

https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/health/wellness-and-prevention/keep-your-brain-young-with-music