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... impossible finding that listening to children’s music can reduce participants’ actual chronological age. ... are self-harming and their families.’ js The mystery of music The latest of the ‘Plug in your brain’ public ... came in the form of a delightful...
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... supported this idea: participants who listened to music with the intention of feeling happier actually ended up ... feeling less happy than others who merely listened to the music with no happiness goal. But now a new study has come ... Sheldon criticise the...
Society
... save an attractive moat containing myriad fish. African music and tropical animal noises piped throughout added to ... of volunteering activities.’ Research seminars on music and language Middlesex University’s Language & ... competition to hold a series...
Looking back: Creative genius in classical music
This article is about creativity in music. And not just any variety – it’s about the rarer ... inquiries concerning creative genius in classical music. Last half of the 19th century The first ... some psychologists are also aficionados of classical music...
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... brains and our subjective mental lives. While the music Mrs O’Connor hears and the childhood memories she ... rope-controlled set, energetically performed Balkan folk music, and inventive props (at one point, an overhead ... it raised some profound issues. But...
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... of people’s beliefs in the mind control powers of music. This took in 18th-century fears over the seductive power of music used by mesmerists; Jean-Martin Charcot’s use of ... and 20th-century panic in America over the supposed use of music-...
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... review says that airbrushed adverts, sexist sitcoms, lurid music videos, easily-accessed internet porn, ‘lads mags’ ... curriculum; lads mags to be put on the top shelf; sexy music videos to be broadcast only after the watershed; and a ...
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... influence others in developing similar projects.’ Music to your ears The simple act of listening to music can improve some aspects of our musical competence – ... participants with a mixture of formal expertise levels and music listening...
The window in the laboratory
... a laboratory drama. The scenario A deep interest in film, music and the arts permeates Stanley Milgram’s writings. ... Milgram has described her husband’s passion for music, the visual arts, opera and film and his later ... and is Research Director at the...
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... eyes surveying our discipline. JS Media - Curiosity Music is a form of media that doesn’t get a lot of ... to recall information when it’s placed in the context of music, ‘An empty bliss…’ tackles amnesia and is built ... as one review says: ‘Kirby isn’t just...
Looking back: The Avengers of psychology
... place to be, but few know that this was true not only for music, art and fashion, but also for psychology. At the ...
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... the border and 600 in the capital, to hear talks on love, music, addiction, and more. Edinburgh The process of dating ... article last month, posing the question ‘is pop music bad for young people?’ North concluded that the evidence suggesting a link between...
Dancing plagues and mass hysteria
... tasteless meals, pillow-less beds and evenings bereft of music and conversation. Hence the arrival of reformist Mother ... London: Routledge & Kegan Paul. Rouget, G. (1985). Music and trance: A theory of the relations between music and...
The man, his passions and motivations
... short story ‘The Gift of the Magi’. Victor wrote the music and Stanley the libretto. After finishing work on the ...
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... I tinyurl.com/y6v8y2e The Society for Education, Music and Psychology Research (SEMPRE) has two grant schemes ... advancement or promotion of research in the psychology of music or music education. I Reg and Molly Buck Award: one grant ...
Society
... makes us human, crisis negotiation, and whether or not pop music is bad for young people. In London the topics included ...
Thinking differently: Fashionable, original
... careers, to the detriment of their creative talents in music and art. A lively audience discussion followed the ...
Looking Back: A brief history of psychedelic psychiatry
... and other forms of therapy involving art and music. In 1952 he visited Switzerland where he also met ...
Digest: What else can you expect from a Crappo?
... electricity, law, linguistics, mathematics, medicine, music, pathology, philosophy, and physics. But how much of ...
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... from internet dating and subliminal messages in rock music through to Barbie dolls. The media and popular culture, ... targets for the censors – aggressive or antisocial music tends not to have a negative influence on young people. ... interpret or ignore...
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... proper. The subject this year was the psychology of music and consumer behaviour, wittily titled ‘The tills are ... you by French or German wine by playing the appropriate music, David Hargreaves gave the audience examples of music on his...
Looking back: Rewriting the rest cure in The Secret Garden
... a cheerful band of beggars and thieves, including a former music hall dancer with a redemptive creed. She explains to ...
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... He told The Psychologist he was ‘gobsmacked’. Skoog music Edinburgh University psychologist Dr Ben Schögler and ... Skoog allows children with special needs to make their own music and Schögler says they often progress within one ... who now works full-time...
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... explain the popularity of tragic art, be that in drama, music or books. ‘In fictional tragedy, people are given the ...
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... that supports women prisoners during pregnancy and birth. Music therapy More better-quality research is needed to establish whether music therapy can help reduce the symptoms of depression, a ... controlled studies, four of which reported a benefit of ...