Listening to Beautiful Sad Music Can Actually Make You Feel Better
From Neuroscience News:
The study identified a number of motives for sad people to select a particular piece of music they perceive as ‘sad’, but found that in some cases their goal in listening is not necessarily to enhance mood. In fact, choosing music identified as ‘beautiful’ was the only strategy that directly predicted mood enhancement, the researchers found.
Keep reading. (Thanks to John for the link.)