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We’ve all turned to sad music to make us feel 1 (good)at some point in our lives, but why does doubling down on the sadness help drag us out of the mire(泥沼 )？
A new study sheds light on what’s going on inside our brains 2 we match our music to our feelings. It looks like sad music can be enjoyable -rather than 3 (simple) depressing- because it triggers positive memories that can help to lift our mood. Psychologist Adrian North from Curtin University in Australia says there 4 (be)two groups of possible 5 (explain)for why we enjoy listening to sad music like this: one from social psychology, and one from cognitive neuroscience(认知神经学).
In terms of social psychology, one way of 6 (think) about this is that we feel much better about 7 (we) if we focus on someone who’s doing even worse, a process known as downward social comparison. Everything’s going to be okay, because this person 8 (have) an even worse day than you are.
Another theory from social psychology is that people like to listen 9 music that mirrors the tone of their current life circumstances -the songs act as 10 sort of tuning fork(音叉) for our own situations and they resonate(共鸣) with us.
