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Why Do Listeners Enjoy Music that Makes Them Weep?

Why Do Listeners Enjoy Music that Makes Them Weep?

Update: 2010-04-29
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Host Steve Mencher and Professor David Huron, Head of Ohio State University’s Cognitive and Systematic Musicology Laboratory,answer to the question in a conversation on emotions, the brain and music.

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Why Do Listeners Enjoy Music that Makes Them Weep?

Why Do Listeners Enjoy Music that Makes Them Weep?