I have always wondered how music affected human behavior based on study and scientific fact. I have always been known to run away into my cave when I’m feeling some sort of emotion and whether it be happy or sad and pairing it with an appropriate song or album that would better allow me to absorb and soak into the moment.
I know personally that it affects behavior, as I know first hand how music stimulates not only the auditory senses but also more so all the others and more that is known to be found in us humans. But that's just my own personal opinion, but after getting my fingers going in writing this blog entry and after making the necessary research to enlighten my claim. The fact is that after a study conducted by certain Dr. Roger Stahl, Music actually does NOT directly affect the behavior of those exposed to it.
According to him, as someone who listens to music at least every once in a while, you would know that immediately when you turn on radio to a tune that you may have been lucky or unluckily to have stumbled that you are more likely to not break out into dance or sing when you here it.The fact is that it may happen, but it does you will have to consider that there are other controlling factors that play a key role along side music such as: the environment that you are in, the people that you are with, what you are wearing etc. these external factors outside of the music help us apparently to determine ones behavior to how you would react to hearing a certain form of music.
Although the study states that there are other factors that contribute to determining ones reaction or behavior towards the kind of music that one is listening, music is also been proven based on the same study to affect people's emotions greatly. As you listen to the blues, it might create more mellow and steady feelings, or jazz may relax you more, Rock and Roll, may make you more rowdy and Hip-hop may make you feel more aggressive. Some not me may even listen to classical music while they study in order to concentrate better; I guess it's a matter of personal preference. However, these emotions created via music can sometimes if not more often may lead to action, and then in turn affect your behavior, in a more indirect way though.
In closing, we all know that music has always been a form of art that people have listened to and enjoyed since its invention, no matter how simple or complex it may be the idea that music has a direct effect on people's behavior andthat it may be used to even control behavior to a certain extent is quite scary actually.
I say rather than allowing oneself to get his/her behavior controlled by music, this blogs purpose is to show and point the reader to the idea that based on the mode, tempo, and volume intensity of the music being played, music may affect a person's emotional state, which in turn will produce a kind of behavior based on the particular state that the person is in while listening to a particular type of music.
Therefore, my message in this blog is to be careful on what you listen to and where and who your listening with, because we may or may not know the extent of the effect it will have on an individual's behavior and how it will directly impact their emotional state at a given situation.
No comments:
Post a Comment