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Can someone help me think of a research question for my music thesis/experiment? (pg. 2)
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| Richard Butler |
| quote: | Originally posted by kitphillips
This is going to be brilliant. The most poorly designed study in the history of psychology.
Basically, I think what your going to be investigating, is "what is the college student's favourite type of music?" Good work champ, I'm sure that'll really enhance our study of human cognition.
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By your words you propell yourself onto a pedastall positioned higher than some others around you. Why the need man? What good does it do the world? |
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| cryophonik |
Robby - as a scientist and a musician, I have to say that I agree with many of the concerns posted here regarding the validity of some of the ideas posed so far. Now, I'm a biologist and we tend to work primarily with results based on observations and measured data that are readily quantifiable, whereas you'll probably be dealing with results that are largely qualitative and therefore much more difficult to measure and interpret. I think that's going to be your biggest hurdle when it comes to measuring mood in response to music.
FWIW, it did get me thinking about the role that environment plays in people's perception of and reaction to music, particularly in trance, which is widely associated with euphoria. It might be interesting to try to find a way to examine differences in euphoric response in different environments (in the absence of any pharmaceutical stimulants, of course), say, in a club vs. at home vs. in the car, etc. I have no idea how you'd go about designing such a study to measure a response (aside from simply surveying your test subjects), but I'm sure that there are methods and some of the stuff that RichieV posted could be very useful. And, best of all, the clubs would be your laboratory. :)
Interesting stuff, Richie! |
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| atxbigballer1 |
kitphillips
is actually a girl! lol |
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| RichieV |
| why is that funny ? |
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| Beatflux |
| quote: | Originally posted by RichieV
The second is a book I scanned. I highlighted some parts in Acrobat but other than that it is perfect.
Sweet Anticipation - Huron |
I wanted this one. Thx. |
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| kitphillips |
| quote: | Originally posted by atxbigballer1
kitphillips
is actually a girl! lol |
er, not last I checked... |
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| Aesthetic |
You guys are really immature, he's come here asking for some help.. I can't believe you guys.
Robbie, try this one mate: How many MG's of Juice does Robby Rox have to ineject before he starts flexing to the massive bass? |
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| EgosXII |
| quote: | Originally posted by Sonic_c
how about relating it to key?
Like whether songs in minor keys make people feel more contemplative than songs in a major key. Then maybe you could find out why a sad minor trance song can bring you down, while at the same time make you happy yet contemplative and hopeful?
Always wondered that. |
this WOULD be the only way to do a real study though... unless you specifically define what a genre incorporates (which is impossible) you're going to have to use things like key or synth-wave-forms or something...
you might want to look into the studies done during war-times about how suffering people relate to, and use music to improve their outlooks on situations... i believe there were a few from WWII and most likely more in recent wars...
consider how they go about relating music to emotion, rather than going from 'x genre does y to people' which has too many variables and will be completely unfalsifiable.. |
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| EgosXII |
| quote: | Originally posted by kitphillips
er, not last I checked... |
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| kitphillips |
| quote: | Originally posted by EgosXII
this WOULD be the only way to do a real study though... unless you specifically define what a genre incorporates (which is impossible) you're going to have to use things like key or synth-wave-forms or something...
you might want to look into the studies done during war-times about how suffering people relate to, and use music to improve their outlooks on situations... i believe there were a few from WWII and most likely more in recent wars...
consider how they go about relating music to emotion, rather than going from 'x genre does y to people' which has too many variables and will be completely unfalsifiable.. |
Yeah, and if you do that you've ventured into the realm of music criticism and well away from psych. This is a silly thread, another great example of robby posting before he thinks. |
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| mysticalninja |
| quote: | | And for the record, you'll find that any effect you get will have no external validity due to the use of a school population. Of course a bunch of <25 year olds will find pop, rock or dance music the most emotionally infuencing, its what they're familiar with and may be associated with memories. |
| quote: | Originally posted by DJ Robby Rox
A study is not externally valid or invalid because it was done in a university number one. It is generalizable based on the mean age and standard deviations from the mean age.
You have no idea what you're talking about.
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