Natural Auditory Stimuli Quantitatively Restores Emotional State
Psychologists have discovered that sounds of nature played back even from a recording aid in recovery of a positive mood after going through a negative experience. The total run length of the natural sound investigated was 3 minutes, and the results were compared to hybrid or completely man-made sounds. As measured by a metric called the “Brief Mood Introspection Scale”, participants who had listened to the natural sounds showed greater mood recovery than those exposed to the hybrid sounds.
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