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  1. Musical Training in the Development of Empathy and Prosocial Behaviors.Xiao Wu & Xuejing Lu - 2021 - Frontiers in Psychology 12.
    Music not only regulates mood but also promotes the development and maintenance of empathy and social understanding. Since empathy is crucial for well-being and indispensable in social life, it is necessary to develop strategies to improve empathy and prosocial behaviors. To fulfill this aim, researchers have extensively investigated the effect of intensive musical training on the development of empathy. Here, we first summarize evidence showing the powerful influence of musical training on the development of empathy and then discuss psychological mechanisms (...)
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  • Sad Art Gives Voice to Our Own Sadness.Tara Venkatesan, Mario Attie-Picker, George E. Newman & Joshua Knobe - 2025 - Cognitive Science 49 (1):e70034.
    People tend to show greater liking for expressions of sadness when these expressions are described as art. Why does this effect arise? One obvious hypothesis would be that describing something as art makes people more likely to regard it as fictional, and people prefer expressions of sadness that are not real. We contrast this obvious hypothesis with a hypothesis derived from the philosophical literature. In this alternative hypothesis, describing something as art makes people more inclined to appropriate it, that is, (...)
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  • Analysis and Classification of Music-Induced States of Sadness.Oliver Herdson, Tuomas Eerola & Amir-Homayoun Javadi - 2023 - Emotion Review 15 (2):99-117.
    The enjoyment and pleasure derived from sad music has sparked fascination among researchers due to its seemingly paradoxical nature in producing positive affect. Research is yet to develop a comprehensive understanding of this “paradox.” Contradictory findings have resulted in a great variability within the literature, meaning results and interpretations can be difficult to derive. Consequently, this review collated the current literature, seeking to utilize the variability in the findings to propose a model of differential sad states, providing a means for (...)
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