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The Science of Scary Music

Stuff To Blow Your Mind

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The Effect of Music in a Horror Movie

20 12 study found that noisier music causes higher arousal and lower veolence. But if you simultaneously prepared those sounds with very benign or benal imagery, like showing people video of somebody sitting drinking a cup of coffee, that appeared to mute the effects of the sound. I wonder if there's aa conscious effort to allull you during a drama, i don't know.

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