Tuesday, May 25, 2010

music and pain

Preferred music was found to significantly increase pain tolerance and perceived control over the painful stimulus and to decrease anxiety compared with both the visual distraction and silence conditions.

Source: "An investigation of the effects of music and art on pain perception." from Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts. Vol 2(3), Aug 2008, 162-170.

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