Research supports that sad songs can make people feel happy. Empathy, or the ability to get lost in the art, predicts who will feel happy listening to sad music. Sympathy becomes empathy ...

Recently, while browsing in the Museum of Modern Art store in New York, I came across a tote bag with the inscription, “You are no longer the same after experiencing art.” It’s a nice ...

This is the paradox of sad music: We generally don’t enjoy being sad in real life, but we do enjoy art that makes us feel that way. Countless scholars since Aristotle have tried to account for it.

Like most people, I’d always assumed that gorging on a steady diet of horrific news about wars, famine, floods and disease was a surefire way to cheer yourself up, that devouring bad news would ...

Why TikTok 'Can't Help Myself' Robot Art Makes Users Sad: ... Most of the comments are similar, showing how people relate to what the machine is doing.

For thousands of years, people have speculated that there’s some correlation between sadness and creativity, so that people who are a little bit miserable (think Van Gogh, or Dylan in 1965, or ...

Unraveling the paradox: Why sad songs feel so good : Shots - Health News People seek out art and music that combine sadness and beauty. Scientists and artists say there's good reason why we're ...

The research adds to a body of work suggesting that music appreciation involves social cognition. People sensitive and willing to empathize with the misfortune of another person—in this case ...

Loving depressing art says good things about your personality. The first question to be answered is: are we weirdos ? How common is a love of sad art and what type of people exactly go in for this ...

Depressed people did, indeed, prefer sad music. (Samuel Barber’s Adagio For Strings was one of the pieces played.) What’s fascinating, however, was the reasoning.

People with depression listen to sad music because it makes them feel better, according to a small study that is one of the first to investigate why people turn to tearjerkers when they’re ...

“Sad Asian Girls” is a team of two Rhode Island School of Design students who wanted to carve out an inclusive space online for Asian femmes. Full Episode Sunday, Apr 6 ...