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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

Shura - I Got Too Sad For My Friends: art pop where Eno meets Robyn - 4/5 The new album by the electro-pop musician feels like a breakthrough in songwriting via vulnerability ...

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 ...

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 ...