Proud to announce our latest study from the ‘violent music’ project @Macquarie_Uni with @thomps95 and @MerrickPowell, reporting on the passions and experiences of music fans with specific focus on violent music.

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/1029864920951611">https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/1... #musicscience #passion #MetalMusic #Rap

We surveyed three fan groups (violent extreme metal; violent rap; classical music) to investigate how fans use music in their lives, their emotional responses to music and whether harmonious/obsessive passion predict positive/negative psychosocial outcomes https://bit.ly/3mj3ZGz ">https://bit.ly/3mj3ZGz&q...

Key Findings:

1. Empowerment & joy the top two emotions reported by all fan groups
2. Fans use violent music to induce a balance of mixed emotions
3. Harmonious passion for violent music predicts positive emotional outcomes; obsessive passion predicts negative emotional outcomes

To finish this thread: for those interested in social, psychological and neurological implications of violent music more broadly, access to the growing body of published research associated with our Violence in Music project @PsyMQ is here: http://bit.ly/3mqZrxI ">https://bit.ly/3mqZrxI&q... #musicscience