A small team of neuroscientists, psychologists and musicologists affiliated with several institutions in the U.S. reports that music created specifically to enhance work performance does just that. In ...

I love music. Music in the car. Music in the shower. Music everywhere. But music most important when I’m at my desk busy working from home. I use music to get me in the right mindset for whatever I’m ...

Many people feel that listening to music at work improves their mood. Others claim it even makes them more productive. Is there any merit to these impressions? The connection between listening to ...

WASHINGTON — Anyone who’s ever put on headphones to concentrate at work knows that the right music can help you get in the ...

Mikael Cho is the co-founder of ooomf, a network that connects short-term software projects with handpicked developers and designers. Mikael writes about psychology, startups, and product marketing ...

You've probably heard that classical music is good for studying, taking tests and doing creative work. This idea stems from the "Mozart Effect," a term coined in 1993 when scientists discovered that ...

From classical to country to ambient to stoner rock, here’s what we listen to at our desks. From classical to country to ambient to stoner rock, here’s what we listen to at our desks. Some people work ...

We use music to set the tone of our environment and our mood, whether we’re unwinding after work or throwing a party. But in an age when many of us spend our time staring at a computer screen, music ...

Manuel F. Gonzalez is a PhD candidate in Industrial-Organizational Psychology at Baruch College, CUNY. John R. Aiello is a professor of Psychology at Rutgers University. This story originally featured ...

“Rhythm is sound in motion. It is related to the pulse, the heartbeat, the way we breathe. It rises and falls. It takes us into ourselves; it takes us out of ourselves.” —Edward Hirsh Rhythm. It is ...

For something to be considered sexual harassment and therefore illegal, it has to meet three criteria: That the harassment was based on sex; That the harassment was sufficiently pervasive to affect a ...