Performance of music elevates pain threshold and positive affect: implications for the evolutionary function of music.

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Published in Evol Psychol on October 22, 2012

Authors

R I M Dunbar1, Kostas Kaskatis, Ian MacDonald, Vinnie Barra

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford, Oxford OX1 3UD, UK. robin.dunbar@psy.ox.ac.uk

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