Possibility to increase creative thinking ability when listening to "happy music"

There are many people who have a habit of listening to music when they want to focus on work, but from experiments that examined the influence of music on "thinking" thinking abilities, the possibility that "happy music" is effective Has been pointed out.

Happy creativity: Listening to happy music facilitates divergent thinking
http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0182210

Happy music linked to creative thinking
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-creativity-music/happy-music-linked-to-creative-thinking-idUSKCN1BP2FK

Dr. Simone Ritter of Rudboud University in the Netherlands and Sam Fir of Sydney Institute of Technology Dr. Song studied the influence of music on thinking power. In the experiment, we divided 155 student volunteers from Rudboud University into 5 groups, then listened to the state of listening to the four music "quiet music" "happy music" "sad music" "uneasy music" I tried various tasks in the "silence without music" state as a control group and examined the results.

The songs selected for each type are as follows.

· Quiet music:Camille Saint-Saëns'Le cygne(swan)"
· Happy music:Antonio Vivaldi's "The Four Seasons: Spring("Spring" in the Four Seasons) "
· Sad songs:Samuel Barber's "Adagio for Strings(Adagio for Strings) "
· Uneasy songs:Gustav Horst's "The Planets: Mars, The Bringer of War(Mars, those who bring war) "

Two kinds of thinking power were examined, "convergent thinking" and "diffusive thinking". From the convergent thinking ability to gather multiple pieces of information and compete for reaching the correct answer, it is necessary to consider the logical thinking ability and accuracy in the work based on existing information based on existing information to create an idea by a new idea From thinking point of view, the experiment was done to investigate creativity in work.


In the "Convergent Thinking" test which requires logic and deep insight in the thought power, we found that there is no difference in the outcome depending on the type of music, but in the "diffusive thinking" test there is a clear difference Appeared. In tests that tried a diffusive thinking to make many new uses of old bricks suggested, the score of subjects who listened to "happy music" was confirmed to have a significant score increase compared to subjects listening to other music It was. Because there was no difference in music other than happy music, there was a possibility that the kind of music influenced creativity rather than the existence of music itself.

In the experiment, I was also surveyed about the mood before doing work, but it did not affect the results. In addition, it seems that the subjects also found that musical preferences such as music genres of favorite do not affect the test results.

It has not been clarified why only "happy music" will have effect on creativity, but researchers speculate that dopamine released by the brain's compensation system may be involved.

That's why you can watch "The Four Seasons: Spring" of "Happy Music" that you find effective for improving work creativity in the following movies.

Vivaldi's Four Seasons - Spring (Part 1) - YouTube