The Psycho-Cinematic Effect

Why Soundtracks Matter


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After missing a week due to unexpected hospitalization, Faith and Aaron dedicate an entire episode to a discussion of movie soundtracks. Aaron goes over the psychological research indicating soundtracks to be fundamental elements of how we interpret and respond to film, while Faith discusses the importance of soundtrack variation and how they allow for nonverbal storytelling. Then during the kvetching corner, the hosts explain the recent controversy over the YouTuber “Dream” to each other, each succeeding in making the other angry.

A Psychology Today going over Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID) and why Aaron has such distaste for self-diagnosis of it and the internet’s version of it: https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/conditions/dissociative-identity-disorder-multiple-personality-disorder

An actual qualified therapists’ perspective on DID and why the TikTok trend surrounding it is both dangerous and denigrating towards people who actually suffer from the condition: https://medium.com/invisible-illness/having-dissociative-identity-disorder-looks-nothing-like-it-does-on-tiktok-995f266c57c9

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