Rock and metal make you smarter?

• April 30, 2024

People who prefer to listen to alternative music, rock and heavy metal, demonstrate a better capacity for abstraction, which helps to have higher scores in an objective measure, as well as to be more intelligent, reveals a study presented in the 18th Annual Conference of the Association for Psychological Science In New York.

The authors of this research explain that thanks to the greater frequency of metaphors and abstract language that exists in the songs of this style, listening to rock and metal not only helps to be more intelligent to a person, but also to develop those special abilities and abstract

For its part, a study by the University of Warwick shows that, among the students who were surveyed, some of them used heavy metal to achieve a catharsis, which was reflected in their academic performance.

According to the researchers, the catharsis caused by listening to this type of music not only allowed them to be more intelligent, but also served as a way to overcome their negative emotions and face the academic pressure to which they were subjected.

Despite the fact that this type of music has been pigeonholed, as an incitement to rebellious and violent behaviors, it has been demonstrated with these studies that those who listen to it frequently can get rid of tension and stress, according to muyinteresante.es, besides be a very strident way to be smarter.

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