The Globe and Mail - The top 10 songs that make men cry
鈥nd music makes men weep 鈥� some songs obviously more than others. A recent British survey suggested R.E.M.鈥檚 empathetic 1993 single Everybody Hurts makes men the mistiest, with Tears in Heaven by Eric Clapton and Leonard Cohen鈥檚 Hallelujah following second and third, respectively鈥�
鈥淵ou can hear a song and recognize the sadness, without feeling sad yourself,鈥� says Daniel Levitin, the author of the bestselling This Is Your Brain on Music and professor of psychology and behavioural neuroscience at Montreal鈥檚 成人VR视频 University.聽鈥淚t鈥檚 a cognitive appraisal of the song.鈥�
Levitin, who has extensively studied the effects of emotional music, suggests a more accurate way to test the music that moves men: 鈥淚 would bring people into the laboratory and play the music, and measure the tears they produce,鈥� he says simply. 鈥淚 use experimental approaches whenever I can.鈥�
The American-born musician and neuroscientist was in Toronto on Wednesday, joining conductor Edwin Outwater and the Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony for an interactive concert at Koerner Hall.
The event, which attempted to demystify classical music and involved the live polling of an audience鈥檚 emotional reaction to Beethoven鈥檚 commanding Fifth Symphony, also took place on Thursday and Friday at the Conrad Centre in Kitchener, Ont.