why yes Doctor, I do concur.
November 20, 2008
I am currently running my psychology thesis. It is very exciting, I feel like a real psychologist! We basically get to create a theory of our own and test it on students.
My study is Music and Emotion and basically I hypothesize that faster and more violent lyrics will cause people to think more aggressively as well as feel more aggressive after listening to the music. In order to test this i'm having my participants listen to 4 different songs,
beat it
Gangster's paradise
Eat it
Amish Paradise
I figure the real versions have somewhat violent lyrics and the weird Al versions of the songs could be used as their humorous counterparts!
So i take their pulse before the song and then after the song to see if anything has changed, and then they fill out a questionaire about primed words-whcih are words that have no negative or positve meaning, but listening to violent lyrics or humorous lyrics primes them to think of these words as either more violent or more humorous. It's really pretty cool.
As of yet, I think one of my hypotheses are going to be wrong, but that's ok, because that's what researching is all about!!
Winnie Loo said:
what you're doing sounds really exciting- i could never take psychology as a major though, but i admire people who do. all the theories just make me get all confuzzled. 
Cathy said:
i like the song choices... 
Emma Chirapongse said:
ahhh that's awesome!!! i totally think that music usually has a profound effect on people... more than they sometimes realize! 
