Why does music have a greater effect on some people than on others?


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Loving music to the point of being moved by it depends neither on our ear nor on our appetite for the pleasures of life in general. — Photo: AFP

Why do some people get swept away by emotion when listening to a song, while others remain completely unmoved?

An international study, published in the journal Nature Communications, may shed some light on this puzzling question, suggesting that musical enjoyment is partly encoded in our genetic makeup.

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