Content by Alberto Acerbi and Charlotte Brand
Why has pop music has become sadder in recent decades?
Once known as an excessively happy genre, pop musicians have become much more willing to express negative sentiments
Alberto Acerbi is a cognitive/evolutionary anthropologist and a lecturer in psychology at Brunel University London. His latest book is Cultural Evolution in the Digital Age (2019).
Charlotte Brand is a postdoctoral research associate at the University of Exeter. She specializes in the evolution of human behavior, including social learning, cultural evolution, social hierarchies and sex differences in behavior.