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?
Read More: http://newsfeed.time.com/2012/03/28/can-watching-s...
Top Opinion
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Lexi 2012/04/01 23:17:00
Oh yes, let's all go watch an alternate version of Contagion, where no cure/vaccine is developed. Whole world dies.
Yeah, THAT'S going to make me feel better..."at least we didn't get a swine/bat flu crossover that killed millions of people" (or in the alternate version, EVERYONE).
Seriously, the most positive things in the movie are that we survive, and they look like they're going to kill Matt Damon in like, the first 20 minutes, and keep him alive without crappy writing. (It's a survival that makes sense. O_O) Oh, and that one of the main research guys gave away his cure to some other people. Nicest thing in the movie. (That other dirtbag was trying to make money off of the world dying. Yeah, he could've been the richest person in the world. Could've been the only person in the world too, so even being in debt would make you the richest.)
What? Don't judge me.