Sunday Morning Mood Induction

When we were in grad school, my wife (then girlfriend) was involved in research where they would use music to induce mood states including sadness and elation over short periods of time. Then, once they had induced mood, they would ask a bunch of questions about cognitions or whatever.

We used to laugh about it because, while the specific pieces of music had been empirically vetted in previous studies, they seemed to us to be poor choices and, whats more, bad music.

So this morning, we are kicking in the kitchen with the brood prepping breakfast and listening to the sublime Elis Regina and genius Tom Jobim and this one in particular has got us feeling pretty good…