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It’s a preasurepleasure to be here today. I’m Kimberley and i’dI’d like to talk to you about an article who entitled « deathDeath metal inspires joy, not violence ». This article was written by Victoria Gill on thirteenth March twenty-nineteen (1313 Mars 2019)2019 on BBC News.
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Professor Bill Thompson from the Macquarie university’sUniversity’s music lab based in Sydney, didconducted a study on the emotional effects of music. hisHis research demonstrates that death metal fans are not "desensitised" to violent imagery.

Yanan Sunis is a Lead researcherResearcher. theThe aim of this experiment was to measure how much participants' brains noticesnotice violent scenes, and to compare the musical impact on their sensitivity. For that, Yanan Sunsis chooseschose 32 fans and 48 non-fans. eachEach participant listens to pop music (the song Happy by Pharrell Williams) and death metal music (the song Eaten by Bloodbath). While they listen to music, 2 types of images appear on each eye. The image is either innocuous (as people walking) or violent (as someone being attacked). This is a binocular rivalry.

So if a person is not insensitive to the violent image, which represents a danger, a threat, the eye will be more directed towards this one. But if a person is insensitive to a violent image, the eye will be more turned towards the neutral image.

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The findings are published in the Royal Society journalJournal Open Science. And the results show that death metal fans are as sensitive to violent images as those who non-fans. Professor Thompson thinks Thethat the emotional response to this music is joy and empowerment.

To conclude, these results help to reassure parents. Because in our society we are afraid that the media will cause social problems.

However, other studies show signs of desensitization in people who play violent video games.

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