Stephen Palmer receives funding from the National Science Foundation that has, in part, supported this research. Karen B Schloss does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any ...

Where does sad music get its sadness from? And whom should you ask—a composer or a cognitive psychologist? Scientific American recently reported on a Tufts University study that purportedly lends ...

When everything is going wrong, there’s nothing like listening to a few melancholy bars of your favorite sad song. Buy why do we find pleasure in sad music? If the goal is to stay upbeat, why would we ...