found that watching sad movies can make people happier. The reason is that sad movies can make viewers think of themselves and the people around them, thereby improving their mood. When
is dating, you two will go to the movies. Do you go to the movies when you are in a bad mood? After watching the movie, I sometimes smiled, sometimes burst into tears, sometimes sighed, but I have to admit that. The moment we came out of the cinema, our mood was very different from when we walked in, and our psychological feelings were much more comfortable.
Watching sad movies can make you happy, is it true? In the new study of
, researchers asked 361 college students to watch a segment from the love movie "Atonement": a story about a pair of lovers who separated and died during World War II. Before and after watching the movie, the participants received a "Happy Life" questionnaire. It turns out that the more the movie makes participants think of their relatives, the greater the increase in their happiness. However, the participants who insisted that "my life is not as bad as the protagonist of the movie" while watching the movie did not feel their happiness increased. Expert analysis of
pointed out that tragedy movies usually take eternal love as the theme, which will cause the audience to feel more emotional, think of their loved ones, and be grateful. People seem to see tragedy movies as a mirror of important relationships in their real lives. Although tragic movies are more likely to make the audience cry, the audience still likes it very much.
In psychotherapy, partners who have similar problems in group therapy talk together to find ways to solve the problem, so that the individual will not feel too lonely and helpless, which is another manifestation of grief treatment.
