The Correlation Between Music And Behavioral Psychology

In history, Music was a great role in various aspects. The combination of rhythm, melody, harmony, and color. The music is an unlimited source of nutrient to our humanity. Throughout the history, it is used for entertainment, helping people go through tragic times, and to control their emotions. As Behavioral psychology develops, they find out that music has a great impact on Psychological development in people. Also, some of counseling Psychologist uses the method of musical therapy to help cure anger issues. However, music has a positive impact on psychological behavior on people to the point that they underestimate the danger that it can prevent us from developing our concentration and personalities by adapting to the music to improve their …show more content…
Some studies have been done to show the correlation between music and psychological development. Out of those researches, majority of them have shown that music can be dedicated to the human personality. The experiment of correlation of music and personality/ behavior, they made three results. “Ambient noise promotes creativity,” “Worship music alleviates emotional anxieties,” “Rock music improves personal motivation.” Also it has been proven that people who listen to slow, melancholic, emotional songs tend to be more emotional, empathetic, and on a drastic level even depressed. As its evidence it proves that depending on genre of the music can be associated with development of …show more content…
For example, the genre of gangster rap is full of negative and violent lyrics that has been proven to cause violent behavior, which also causes to have a hatred towards the government, police, or any type of authority. Most of the listeners of gangster rap are young teenagers who are in the age of rebellion. They will try to do whatever it takes to go against their parents wishes to assert their independence. Another influential music genre is rock music, specifically heavy metal rock music. Throughout the years heavy metal rock music has been the main topic of negative influence in people, not only young teenagers. That particular genre of music has been proven to cause violent outburst to people who have listened to it on a regular basis. Heavy metal raises the endorphin levels in a person 's brain and causes the heart rate to increase dramatically. At heavy metal concerts there are things called mosh pits, where people shove, punch, kick, and pretty much just attack each other for the sake of the