The Psychology of Music

In the article http://psychology.suite101.com/article.cfm/the_psychology_of_music, it talks about many different situations where music tends to affect the psychology of others. The first of these is how different kinds of music affects the different mice, and how long it takes the mice to learn their way around the maze. He also adds that the classical music tends to make the mice learn quicker, and that the heavy metal music makes the mice that listen to it worse at solving mazes than when they first started. It also mentions that the first experiment could not even be performed because the mice that listen to heavy metal were violent. The thing that interest me about this article is the many similarties it has with my very beliefs. As we talked about in class, i too believe that music has a very big influence on attitude and how people act towards others. Also, the article talks about how music affects the growth of plants, and how music tends to provoke violent thoughts in people that would not naturally be there. I also feel that this is true because when people are feeling a certain way, they tend to listen to music that is catered towards their mood. Such as people who are mad either listen to loud music that also makes them mad, or they listen to music that is soft and tries to help them get un mad. Either way, this proves that music affects the psychology of people who listen or are exposed to it.