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It does seem obvious, if you listen to love songs, you will quite possibly be thinking about love, romance, sex and whatnot.
One thing that bothered me:
<i> "Such aggression-biased interpretations can, in turn, instigate a more aggressive response, verbal or physical, than would have been emitted in a nonbiased state, thus provoking an aggressive escalatory spiral of anti-social exchanges," researcher Craig Anderson said in a statement.</i>
I haven't read the study, but based on the article, he's jumping from proof that people think about violence when responding to test items to saying that people act in the real world in a violent or at least anti-social way after hearing violent music. His claim isn't supported by his evidence, unless there's more in the research paper, which there very well could be, and the article just missed it.
I still think that if violent music or movies caused people to BE violent, that we'd have vastly more violence in our society, given how many people encounter violent entertainment.
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