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Recent studies have shown that other species besides humans experience jealousy. Psychology professor Christine Harris designed a study to try to understand the emotion in infants by using dogs. She concluded that jealousy has a basic form that can be found in human infants and other social species. 

As a pharmacist, Catherine Ulbricht studied different types of music and its therapeutic effects. There are scientific evidences that support that music influences mood and helps with stress. 5 conditions for which music therapy has good evidence for are autism, dementia, depression, infant development, and sleep quality. However, music shouldn't be listened to at high volumes nor should be a sole treatment for dangerous medical/psychiatric conditions; therefore, safety should be taken into account.

In a survey carried out by Dr. Brown, an author, 86% of the participants reported having experiences that they recall from past dreams. Anne Cleary, Ph.D. has three reasons as to why a moment might seem like a re-experience of a dream: forgetting the experience leading to the dream, connections made during sleep, and mistaking the source. Strongly believing that dreams don't just come from "nowhere", Cleary admits to having "deja vu" experiences before.

This article explains about the same experiment that WHY YOUR BRAIN LOVES MUSIC-TELEGRAPH does. See summary for that article.

As the title suggests, this article discussed how music can affect the choices someone makes. This idea came from an experiment where a group of people listened to music similar to the beginning of the Simpson's theme song (a triton) which is where the notes are spread out and longer. The other group of people listened to music similar to twinkle twinkle (a set of fifths) which is when the notes are consecutive and shorter. After both groups listened to their selected music they were asked to take a grocery list and divide the items on the list into groups. The results showed that the group that listed to the triton music made more inclusive or broader groups whereas the group of people that listened to the fifths were more detailed and had less inclusive groups. After discussing the initial experiment the paper moved on to talk about a new/ developing theory in the field of psychology called construal level theory. This theory states that there is a direct link between how far things are and how people interpret them. Then what scientist have done is make a correlation between the construal level theory and the initial experiment discussed in the passage. Scientists say certain types of music certainly do evoke certain emotions; so, the same can be said for how echoing tones can cause one to interpret things broadly whereas consistent tones can cause one to interpret things more specifically.