At the university of iowa in 2009 , Anderson and his colleagues requested 500 people to engage in an experiment and listen to some more violent songs such as songs with contextual matter about guns and support and encourage murder and homicide such as "Shoot 'Em Up" by Bone thugs and harmony , and such nonviolent songs as "Finger Lickin' Good" by the Beastie Boys that don't contain such harsh text and are more about melody and calmness. Researchers included the lyrics of some of these songs .After listening to the songs, the students formulated answers to various word-association tasks to test whether they linked more non-aggressive words with aggressive words or filled incomplete words with vowels to make aggressive words. They also noticed their feelings of hostility as measured by the State Hostility Scale, ranking sentences based on their emotions after hearing the songs.
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Humorous violent songs also increased aggression and this was a result of violence in the text as well. The findings were consistent for the person's personality and the person's gender and the results were evident that listening to the more violent songs resulted in a more violent brain in most the subjects.
While more research on effects of violent lyrics must be done, says Anderson, yet another type of entertainment media, when referring to violence, "now has been demonstrated to have some negative effects. Just how music can make you
Humorous violent songs also increased aggression and this was a result of violence in the text as well. The findings were consistent for the person's personality and the person's gender and the results were evident that listening to the more violent songs resulted in a more violent brain in most the subjects.
While more research on effects of violent lyrics must be done, says Anderson, yet another type of entertainment media, when referring to violence, "now has been demonstrated to have some negative effects. Just how music can make you