What Getting Chills from Music Says About Your Brain

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4.6 • 964 Ratings

🗓️ 1 March 2021

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

Learn about a surprising benefit of adding humor to the news; what getting chills from music says about your brain; and how Volta’s electric eels that hunt in packs.

Young adults are more likely to remember and share news delivered with humor by Kelsey Donk

New Study Finds that Delivering the News with Humor Makes Young Adults More Likely to Remember and Share | Annenberg School for Communication. (2021). Upenn.edu. https://www.asc.upenn.edu/news-events/news/new-study-finds-delivering-news-humor-makes-young-adults-more-likely-remember-and
Coronel, J. C., O’Donnell, M. B., Pandey, P., Delli Carpini, M. X., & Falk, E. B. (2020). Political Humor, Sharing, and Remembering: Insights from Neuroimaging. Journal of Communication. https://doi.org/10.1093/joc/jqaa041

What Getting Chills from Music Says About Your Brain by Reuben Westmaas

Sachs, M. E., Ellis, R. J., Schlaug, G., & Loui, P. (2016). Brain connectivity reflects human aesthetic responses to music. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 11(6), 884–891. https://doi.org/10.1093/scan/nsw009
Colver, M. (2016, May 25). If You Get Chills While Listening to Music, You Might Be a More Open and Emotional Person. Slate Magazine; Slate. https://slate.com/technology/2016/05/getting-chills-when-listening-to-music-might-mean-youre-a-more-emotional-person.html
McCrae, R. R. (2007). Aesthetic Chills as a Universal Marker of Openness to Experience. Motivation and Emotion, 31(1), 5–11. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11031-007-9053-1

Electric eels hunt in packs, and scientists are shocked by Steffie Drucker

Roth, A. (2021). Electric Eels Hunt in Packs, Shocking Prey and Scientists. The New York Times. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/14/science/electric-eels-hunting-pack.html
Moutinho, S. (2021, January 14). Shocking discovery: Electric eels hunt in packs in Amazon rivers. Science | AAAS. https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2021/01/shocking-discovery-electric-eels-hunt-packs-amazon-rivers
Bastos, D. A., Zuanon, J., Rapp Py‐Daniel, L., & Santana, C. D. (2021). Social predation in electric eels. Ecology and Evolution. https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.7121

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0:00.0	Hi, you're about to get smarter in just a few minutes with Curiosity Daily from
0:04.9	Curiosity.com. I'm Cody Goff. And I'm Ashley Hamer. Today you learn about a
0:09.1	surprising benefit of adding humor to the news, what getting chills from music says about your brain, and
0:15.3	electric eels that hunt in packs.
0:18.0	Let's satisfy some curiosity.
0:20.6	When comedy and the news come together, it can make some people uneasy.
0:25.0	I mean, is it really a good idea to make serious news into a joke?
0:30.0	Well, the research suggests that it could be.
0:32.9	Young adults are more likely to remember and share news
0:37.4	delivered with humor.
0:39.2	So for the study, researchers asked people between the ages of 18 and 34 to watch a variety of news clips.
0:46.0	Some of those clips ended with jokes and some didn't.
0:50.0	While they watched, the researchers measured their brain activity with an fMRI machine.
0:55.5	And afterward the team quizzed the participants to find out how much of the news they remembered
1:00.8	and asked them how likely they were to share each news clip with
1:04.4	friends. So let's try it with a couple of clips from the study. Here's a
1:08.8	serious clip of the news. Any contributions to elected officials exceeding $250 will have to be posted on the officials
1:16.8	website, along with the donor's name.
1:19.6	This will publicly recognize people who give more than $250.
1:24.0	Okay, so what was the news?
1:27.0	Do you feel like you'll remember it tomorrow?
1:29.0	Do you want to share that news with your family and friends?
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