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Why does music make people feel excited or sad?

Many people try to avoid listening to sad music and songs when they are depressed or unhappy, because people take it for granted that listening to sad music when they are unhappy will only make people sadder. What most people will do after a breakup is to lock themselves up alone and listen to those sad love songs until the world is dark. And often imagine themselves to be the protagonist of sad love songs, thinking that as long as they release all the sadness and pain of lovelorn in the song, they can immediately get rid of the shadow of lovelorn. However, science proves we were wrong. In fact, on the contrary, sad music can make people happier and can effectively improve bad moods and depressed mental states. Let’s take a look at how sad songs can comfort and improve a depressed and depressed mood and mental state! Many sad music contains musical symbols such as flower sounds, such as "Someone Like You". This may also scientifically explain why sad music can make people happy. A professor in Ohio State University's College of Arts and Humanities has been studying the effects of sad music on people for years. In early research, he found that some people especially like to listen to sad music, especially people with straightforward personalities and rich emotions. According to research, the direct factor responsible for the positive impact of sad music on the human body is prolactin. As we all know, the role of prolactin is actually a human hormone that stimulates lactation in lactating women. However, the body also releases this hormone during times of great grief and shock. In times of extreme sadness and pain, the human body releases a natural placebo to help us ease the pain and get through the grief. This natural placebo is prolactin. Similarly, when people listen to sad music, their bodies will send out a signal that they are undergoing a painful process, and then their bodies will release prolactin to relieve our sadness. Therefore, the process of people listening to sad music actually creates an illusion for the brain, thereby creating the result that people feel happy and happy when listening to sad music. The professor said: "It's like a natural intervention of the human body, because we can't bear excessive sadness."