Popular music includes countless love songs, and also a surprising number of songs about romantic breakups. Another category of songs has gone unnoticed: anti-breakup songs, with one or both partners ...

Music is remarkable in its ability to evoke profound emotions — chills and thrills — in listeners. And being emotionally moved by music is an inherently pleasurable experience. Most music listeners ...

The “Star-Spangled Banner” stirs pride. Ed Sheeran’s “The Shape of You” sparks joy. And “ooh là là!” best sums up the seductive power of George Michael’s “Careless Whispers.” UC Berkeley researchers ...

The superficial amygdala is involved in the processing of basic socio-affective information, including music. Music-evoked pleasure is associated with activity of the dopaminergic mesolimbic reward ...