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Music Choice Reveals Your Personality
Reuters
Posted on 08/15/2003 7:11:56 AM PDT by meow
"Music Choice Reveals Your Personality"
The next time you go to a party and want to hook up with someone new, ask this question to find just the right person: What kind of music do you like? Turns out, the music a person likes also reveals fun facts about his or her personality, according to new research from the University of Texas at Austin.
If you like blues, jazz, classical, or folk music... ...then you are intelligent, tolerant, and politically liberal.
If you like country or religious music... ...then you are cheerful, outgoing, reliable, and conventional.
If you like alternative or heavy metal music... ...then you are physically active and a curious risk-taker.
If you like rap/hip-hop or and dance music... ...then you are outgoing and agreeable and generally eschew conservative ideals.
Memorize this list. When you ask that cute stranger what kind of music he or she likes, you'll know if the two of you will hit it off. "It assumes that knowing the answer tells you something about who they are" and whether or not to pursue a relationship, Dr. Peter J. Rentfrow, a psychologist at the University of Texas at Austin and the lead study author, told Reuters. Along with Dr. Samuel D. Gosling, Rentfrow conducted six studies on over 3,500 students examining their music preferences, beliefs about music, self-perceptions, and cognitive abilities.
Don't look now, but advertisers can also use the same psychology. Fitting just the right music with just the right product for just the right demographics could make sales soar. "We might come up with typologies comprised of music preferences, socioeconomic status, and age," Rentfrow predicted to Reuters. He says there is very little research to date on music preferences and personalities because many consider it mundane. But Rentfrow doesn't agree. His findings suggest mthat personality, self-perception, and cognitive ability each play a role in the "formation and maintenance of music preferences."
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To: meow
I think Beethoven was at God's side when the universe was planned. But I'm slightly to the right of Ghengis Khan. So much for this "study."
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posted on
08/15/2003 7:26:06 AM PDT
by
IronJack
To: theFIRMbss
I once bought a Devo cassette. I listened to it. I liked it.
I have chosen to come out here, in front of my friends.
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posted on
08/15/2003 7:26:09 AM PDT
by
Skooz
(Tagline removed by moderator)
To: meow
If you like blues, jazz, classical, or folk music... ...then you are intelligent, tolerant, and politically liberal.I like blues and classical and I'm to the right of Attila the Hun.
What a pant load!
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posted on
08/15/2003 7:26:41 AM PDT
by
metesky
("Brethren, leave us go amongst them." Rev. Capt. Samuel Johnston Clayton - Ward Bond- The Searchers)
To: Skooz
I know the feeling, on any given day you can hear Motown or Nessun Dorma blasting from my car...and then there are times I get a jones for some Led Zepplin...
To: meow
I'm pretty flexible. I'll handle anything from Handl to Johnny Rotten & The Sex Pistols. :-)
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posted on
08/15/2003 7:28:04 AM PDT
by
AmericanInTokyo
(Still think the Administration's BIG failure was not to dispense with N.Korea before Iraq!)
To: Howlin; Ed_NYC; MonroeDNA; widgysoft; Springman; Timesink; dubyaismypresident; Grani; coug97; ...
What morons.
I love jazz, blues, pop, dance, new age and classical. What does that make me? Confused?
Just damn.
If you want on the new list, FReepmail me. This IS a high-volume PING list...
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posted on
08/15/2003 7:28:20 AM PDT
by
mhking
To: meow
What if you never listen to music at all?
To: ClearCase_guy
Isn't this just a step removed from the old, "Oh, you black people can all tap dance, right?"Basically.
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posted on
08/15/2003 7:29:04 AM PDT
by
mhking
To: meow
What about video game music? ;)
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posted on
08/15/2003 7:29:11 AM PDT
by
Pyrion
To: r9etb; Skooz
To: camle
i've never know a heavy metal fan who was "active". Headbanging is an activity. :-)
SD
To: meow
And if you like romantic show tunes you are.......?????
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posted on
08/15/2003 7:30:40 AM PDT
by
late bloomer
( Neglegere homo pone aulaeum)
To: meow
I'll listen to Debussy, Pat Metheny, Rush and Disturbed on the same afternoon.
What does that make me? ;)
To: meow
What about us ParrotHeads?!
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posted on
08/15/2003 7:33:45 AM PDT
by
Hatteras
(Tag Line closed for service.)
To: mhking
I think I have CDs of all types, from classical to gangster rap. Eclectic is the term I prefer to use...
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posted on
08/15/2003 7:34:26 AM PDT
by
hchutch
(The National League needs to adopt the designated hitter rule.)
To: meow
what about the Deaf?!!! Guess they don't have personalities then... </sarcasm>
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posted on
08/15/2003 7:35:35 AM PDT
by
bedolido
(None of us is as dumb as all of us!)
To: hchutch
I think I am eclectic too...
Plus I like Koto drums, Andean folk, Algerian Rai and Turkish Pop....
Bet there isn't even a class for me ;)
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posted on
08/15/2003 7:36:15 AM PDT
by
najida
(What handbasket? And where did you say we were going?)
To: theFIRMbss
What does it mean if once or twice in your life you bought music like this?You're doomed.
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posted on
08/15/2003 7:36:17 AM PDT
by
steveo
(Well doctor, sometimes I feel like a nut and sometimes, well, you know...)
To: meow; HairOfTheDog; Overtaxed; RosieCotton; ecurbh; g'nad; ksen
What a goofus study. And so PC.
No mention of "show tunes" or Streisand...and we know what that means...
To: meow
Along with Dr. Samuel D. Gosling, Rentfrow conducted six studies on over 3,500 students examining their music preferences, beliefs about music, self-perceptions, and cognitive abilities. Umm.... you think maybe a sample pool entirely composed of college students is perhaps a bit narrow?
I was politically liberal in college. It took me all of 1 year in the real world afterward to snap me out of it.
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