Does Watching a Sad Movie Make You Feel Happier?
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2012/04/01 20:41:37
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Feeling down in the dumps? Well, according to a recent study, if you are hoping to improve your mood by watching a movie, you may be better off choosing a tragedy over a comedy.
A team of researchers at Ohio State University discovered that when people watch tragic films they often leave with a “count your blessings” mentality about their relationships with loved ones. That type of thinking typically brightens moods in the short term.
“People seem to use tragedies as a way to reflect on the important relationships in their own life,” Associate Professor Silvia Knobloch-Westerwick, who led the study, told Science Daily. “That can help explain why tragedies are so popular with audiences, despite the sadness they induce.”
A team of researchers at Ohio State University discovered that when people watch tragic films they often leave with a “count your blessings” mentality about their relationships with loved ones. That type of thinking typically brightens moods in the short term.
“People seem to use tragedies as a way to reflect on the important relationships in their own life,” Associate Professor Silvia Knobloch-Westerwick, who led the study, told Science Daily. “That can help explain why tragedies are so popular with audiences, despite the sadness they induce.”
The researchers came to these conclusions after showing an abridged version of Atonement, “the 2007 flick depicting two war-torn lovers who fall victim to casualties of conflict,” to 361 college students.
The team monitored the viewers’ responses before, during, and after the screening, by asking them a series of questions to measure their happiness and rate the emotions they were feeling throughout the movie.
The team monitored the viewers’ responses before, during, and after the screening, by asking them a series of questions to measure their happiness and rate the emotions they were feeling throughout the movie.
What about you SodaHeads? Does watching a sad movie make you feel happier?
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Top Opinion
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Lexi 2012/04/01 23:17:00
This study is ridiculous.
For someone like me who finds it difficult to express emotions, if I find that if a movie can make me feel anything at all, it was a good movie for it made me think about something differently, it made me fall in love with the characters--it just did something that left a mark on me. That's what I look forward to when I watch a movie. And if a good movie did this for me, then I am happy.
Of course, my wife is punching me so that doesn't help.
Get a grip, People are suffering and getting killed every day ~ fiction is for release!