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May 25, 2022 · Concerns have been raised that prolonged exposure to heavy metal music with aggressive themes can increase the risk of aggression, anger, antisocial behaviour, substance use, suicidal ideation, anxiety and depression in community and psychiatric populations. Although research often relies on correlational evidence for which causal inferences are not possible, it is often claimed that music ...
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May 25, 2022 · This narrative review of theory and evidence suggests the issues are more complicated, and that fans typically derive a range of emotional and social benefits from listening to heavy metal music ...
The review is grounded within the eld of music psychology and aims to ensure that clinical deci-sion-making (e.g., discouraging or encouraging listening) is informed by empirical evidence. Dening Heavy Metal Music Heavy metal developed as a genre in the late 1960s and 1970s, with bands including Deep Purple, Black Sabbath, and Led Zeppelin ...
Sep 30, 2024 · While classical music’s impact on the brain has been well-documented, metal is no slouch in the cognitive department. In fact, the complexity of metal music can provide a unique form of mental stimulation. The intricate time signatures, technical instrumentation, and layered compositions challenge your brain in ways that simpler genres might not.
Our review considers a comprehensive set of empirical findings that inform clinical strategies designed to identify fans for whom heavy metal music may confer psychological and behavioural risks, and those for whom this music may confer psychosocial benefits.
Previous studies have reported reliable associations between personality and music preferences, but have tended to rely on cross-genre preferences at the expense of preferences within a single subgenre. We sought to overcome this limitation by examining associations between individual differences and preferences for a specific subgenre of music, namely, contemporary heavy metal. A total of 414 ...
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Sep 21, 2020 · Consistent with previous research, fans of “problem music” (i.e., heavy metal and rap) scored higher on the Dark Triad. As the original work on NFC and music preference was conducted over 30 years ago, we speculate that a change in the style of heavy metal may correlate with a change in the need for cognition.
