Effects of songs with prosocial lyrics on prosocial thoughts, affect, and behavior.
By Tobias Greitemeyer. 2009
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Previous research has shown that exposure to violent media increased aggression-related affect and thoughts, physiological arousal, and aggressive behavior as well as decreased prosocial tendencies. The present research examined the hypothesis that exposure to prosocial media promotes prosocial outcomes. Three studies revealed that listening to songs with prosocial (relative to neutral) lyrics increased the accessibility of prosocial thoughts, led to more interpersonal empathy, and fostered helping behavior. These results provide first evidence for the predictive validity of the General Learning Model [Buckley, K. E., & Anderson, C. A. (2006). A theoretical model of the effects and consequences of playing video games. In P. Vorderer, & J. Bryant, (Eds.), Playing video games: Motives responses and consequences (pp. 363–378). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates] for the effects of media with prosocial content on prosocial thought, feeling, and behavior
Subfields: Education, Literature and Literary Theory, Social Psychology
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- Prosocial video games reduce aggressive cognitions (2009, background): “, 2003) and aggressive behavior (Fischer & Greitemeyer, 2006), exposure to songs with prosocial lyrics increased prosocial affect, cognitions, and prosocial behavior (Greitemeyer, 2009).”
- Effects of Prosocial Media on Social Behavior (2011, background): “Mediational analyses showed that affective, rather than cognitive, variables appear to constitute the mediating path from media exposure to action: Listening to music with prosocial lyrics increases empathy, which in turn evokes helping behavior (Greitemeyer, 2009b).”
- Music as an emotion regulation strategy: An examination of genres of music and their roles in emotion regulation (2019, background): “Specifically, Greitemeyer (2009a, 2009b) found that listening to prosocial lyrics may increase empathy.”