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Like the origin of language, the origin of music has been a topic for speculation and debate for centuries. [3] Leading theories include Darwin's theory of partner choice (women choose male partners based on musical displays), the idea that human musical behaviors are primarily based on behaviors of other animals (see zoomusicology), the idea that music emerged because it promotes social ...
More than 300 people have taken part in an experiment to discover if singing can improve mental health and wellbeing. Researchers invited people to take part in Sing for Happiness which saw ...
A multinational collaboration to study the connection between singing and health was established in 2009, called Advancing Interdisciplinary Research in Singing (AIRS). [101] Singing provides physical, cognitive, and emotional benefits to participants. When they step on stage, many singers forget their worries and focus solely on the song.
Active mood is another factor that affects music preference. Generally whether people are in a good or bad mood when they hear music affects how they feel about the type of music and also their emotional response. [20] On that line of thinking, aggression has been shown to improve creativity and emotional intensity derived from music.
Others have suggested that evolutionary psychology, human behavioral ecology, and cultural evolution all fit nicely with each other, ultimately answering different questions on human behavioral diversity; gene-culture coevolution may be at odds with other research programs though by placing more emphasis on socially-learned behavior and its ...
The Origins of Human Choral Singing, Intelligence, Language and Speech (Logos, 2006) Why do People Sing? Music in Human Evolution (Logos, 2011) Tigers, Lions and Humans: History of Rivalry, Conflict, Reverence and Love (Logos, 2014) Choral Singing in Human Culture and Evolution (Lambert Academic Publishers, 2015)
Simon Vouet, Saint Cecilia, c. 1626. Research into music and emotion seeks to understand the psychological relationship between human affect and music.The field, a branch of music psychology, covers numerous areas of study, including the nature of emotional reactions to music, how characteristics of the listener may determine which emotions are felt, and which components of a musical ...
The social brain (or Machiavellian) hypothesis posits that the emergence of a complex social environment (e.g., larger group sizes) served as a key selection pressure in the evolution of human intelligence. [29]