Sex, drugs, and classical music.
Not exactly new (the study was conducted ten years ago), but I’ve been saving this for a slow day. Just in case you ever wondered why you sometimes get chills when you listen to Mahler.
https://www.mcgill.ca/newsroom/channels/news/musical-chills-why-they-give-us-thrills-170538
Details of the study, along with a list of the music used, here:
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0007487#s5
PHOTO: The late, lamented “Mozart in the Jungle” – not always the last word in authenticity, but it played “with the blood”
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