Pregnant women respond to music with stronger physiological changes in blood pressure

Tuesday, May 20, 2014 - 19:01 in Psychology & Sociology

Pregnant women, compared to their non-pregnant counterparts, rate music as more intensely pleasant and unpleasant, associated with greater changes in blood pressure, a study has demonstrated. Music appears to have an especially strong influence on pregnant women, a fact that may relate to a prenatal conditioning of the fetus to music.

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