Articles for tag: Emotions, MusicAndMood, MusicTherapy, psychology, wellbeing

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How Does Music Affect Our Mood?

Suhail Ahmed

  Picture a song that can pull you back to a heartbreak in high school – or another that can drag you out of a bad day in under thirty seconds. Music seems to reach places that words and logic cannot, flipping emotional switches with unnerving speed. For decades, scientists treated this as a kind ...

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Why Is Laughter So Contagious and What Is Its Purpose?

Suhail Ahmed

  We treat laughter like an afterthought – background noise to jokes, sitcoms, and awkward meetings – yet it behaves more like a social reflex than a private emotion. Scientists now see it as a biological broadcast that moves through groups with astonishing speed, reshaping chemistry in our brains and choreography in our bodies. The ...