Psychobiological Mechanisms of the Effectiveness of Music Interventions
Description:... The present thesis aimed to determine the psychobiological mechanisms of the purported beneficial effectiveness of music interventions. For this purpose, two studies were conducted. In a first study, the associations between music listening and health were investigated under consideration of predicted mediating mechanisms. In a second study, we set out to examine the assumed stress-reducing effect of listening to relaxing music in a rigorously controlled experiment in a laboratory setting across neuroendocrine, autonomic, cognitive, and emotional domains of the acute stress experience in healthy participants.
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