Whether you're working the floor at a retail store or sifting through papers at a desk, a new study suggests you may want to start paying more attention to the music that's playing in the background — ...

Stand on any street in your town and you'll witness a trend that began 30 years ago with the invention of the Walkman: music lovers walking around wearing headphones. The freedom to listen to the ...

Music certainly plays an important role in work environments, but it’s always good to be considerate of your coworkers. Many workplaces have the radio or Spotify on during the day but how do people ...

Annie Murphy Paul is the author of the forthcoming book Brilliant: The New Science of Smart. In a previous column about the stress of working in an “open” office, I suggested that the popular practice ...

Jamming out at a concert puts music front and center in a person’s life, but only for a moment. Most of the time, music serves more as sonic wallpaper, spicing up the background while we go about the ...

What’s the best music to listen to while you work? There’s no one answer to that question, because it’s different for each of us. That insight comes from Srini Pillay, M.D., a Harvard psychiatrist and ...

As you might imagine then, I've spent a lot of time experimenting with the desktop version of Spotify to get the most out of ...

Can music affect how well you drive? Sure it can. For example, if I was ever forced to drive while listening to Imagine Dragons, I’d drive into a telephone pole and end it all. But apparently the ...