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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
Wow! What an example of pure asininity at university level! I like classical music and folk, but I despise liberals and their commie ideologies.
41 posted on 08/15/2003 7:39:39 AM PDT by Paulus Invictus
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To: dead
What is the definition of an optimist? . . . . . .

An accordian player with a pager.

42 posted on 08/15/2003 7:39:56 AM PDT by TexasNative2000 (The joy of the Lord is my strength.)
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To: Snuffington
That is a great point.

My survey reveals that the Wiggles and Barney are overwhelming favorites of young people today.

My sample was my 2 pre-school children.
43 posted on 08/15/2003 7:41:54 AM PDT by ko_kyi
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To: late bloomer
And if you like romantic show tunes you are.......?????


44 posted on 08/15/2003 7:42:40 AM PDT by Skooz (Tagline removed by moderator)
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To: IronJack
In fact Beethoven was present, but it was Mozart who produced the score.
45 posted on 08/15/2003 7:43:45 AM PDT by Paulus Invictus (RATS are scum)
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To: Skooz
STOP IT!!!

Tooooooo Funny!!!

46 posted on 08/15/2003 7:44:54 AM PDT by bedolido (None of us is as dumb as all of us!)
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To: Pyrion
What about video game music? ;)

All your music personality are belong to us.

47 posted on 08/15/2003 7:45:49 AM PDT by lorrainer (Oh, was I ranting? Sorry....)
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To: Paulus Invictus; IronJack
In fact Beethoven was present, but it was Mozart who produced the score.

Myself... I think they both had help from John Williams.

48 posted on 08/15/2003 7:46:41 AM PDT by bedolido (None of us is as dumb as all of us!)
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To: Mr. Jeeves
Supposedly, according to another study, you're more likely to be mentally ill, due to your wide variations in musical taste over one afternoon.

That said, I've been known to go from a classical music CD straight to a hardcore punk one. ;-)

49 posted on 08/15/2003 7:47:32 AM PDT by Pyro7480 (+ Vive Jesus! (Live Jesus!) +)
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To: CanisMajor2002
##-years-ago Metallica (St. Anger bores me, but I digress),##

How about Load and re-load? Hero of the day rocks!

But, anyway, this is obviously a load of crap. They probably used too small of a test group to get decent results, and failed include too many things (ie, people who have broad tastes, pop, techno, etc).

Notice that they don't have anything negative to say about any of the music (let's face it, rap listeners tend to be goons) This is sign #1 that this 'study' was done by some PC liberal. Also, notice how it specifically states that two groups are liberal, but fails to call country music listeners conservative. They're "conventional". BS.
50 posted on 08/15/2003 7:47:50 AM PDT by Sofa King (-I am Sofa King- tired of liberal BS! http://www.angelfire.com/art2/sofaking/)
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To: Corin Stormhands
Hmm...I like bluegrass, Celtic (I suppose they'd call that folk?), jazz, old time (also folk?), country, some 50's and 60's rock and pop, Celtic rock, bagpipes, classical (including opera), show tunes....

I guess according to their study, I'm a very confused person.

Hey...wait a minute...

51 posted on 08/15/2003 7:47:53 AM PDT by RosieCotton
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To: bedolido
In fact Beethoven was present, but it was Mozart who produced the score.

Myself... I think they both had help from John Williams.

That's it! Get out of the pool! Ten minute time out!

52 posted on 08/15/2003 7:48:12 AM PDT by Skooz (Tagline removed by moderator)
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To: meow
Ok, that does it! I've resigned myself to being totally out of the loop. Of all those waste-of-tax-$ studies out there, I never fit into a category. Give me a few 60's, throw in some old time Rock and Roll (bass turned up), add some instramental (Mangione), and top it off with some classical (Tchaikovsky).
53 posted on 08/15/2003 7:49:24 AM PDT by mtbopfuyn
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To: ko_kyi
My survey reveals that the Wiggles and Barney are overwhelming favorites of young people today.

The Wiggles rule!

SD

54 posted on 08/15/2003 7:52:27 AM PDT by SoothingDave
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To: meow
and if you like Fleetwood Mac, your are a lying president who will be impeached......

I like Blues and Classical, but am NO LIBERAL.

I like some religious music, but am not always cheerful.

I hate rap, don't believe it is music, and find it HARD to believe that those who like rap are always AGREEABLE.
55 posted on 08/15/2003 7:57:42 AM PDT by Moby Grape
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To: Pyro7480
Supposedly, according to another study, you're more likely to be mentally ill...

Sounds about right. ;)

56 posted on 08/15/2003 7:59:35 AM PDT by Mr. Jeeves
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To: mtbopfuyn
Ok, that does it! I've resigned myself to being totally out of the loop. Of all those waste-of-tax-$ studies out there, I never fit into a category. Give me a few 60's, throw in some old time Rock and Roll (bass turned up), add some instramental (Mangione), and top it off with some classical (Tchaikovsky).

As a boomer I don't like much of today's music. I listen to talk radio and watch the tube. If I want music I get out my dusty old "record-player" (a device that took vinyl discs and a diamond needle to make sounds) and play Smetena's "Moldau", or the "Three Cornered Hat" by de Falla, or Creedence Clearwater Revival "Born on the Bayou"

57 posted on 08/15/2003 8:01:00 AM PDT by bedolido (None of us is as dumb as all of us!)
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To: theFIRMbss
80's New Wave Fan here too... and a conservative too...

This was a hogwash article..

P.S. Also like some Christian oldies and Alternative Scottish and Irish rock...and Enya wherever she fits in...

58 posted on 08/15/2003 8:07:12 AM PDT by LowOiL (If you observe close enough, I will manage to have a typo in my tag line also...)
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To: RosieCotton
Hmm...I like bluegrass, Celtic (I suppose they'd call that folk?), jazz, old time (also folk?), country, some 50's and 60's rock and pop, Celtic rock, bagpipes, classical (including opera), show tunes....

Two groups for you to consider... "Runrig" and older "Big Country".

Freepmail me and I will hook you up with a Runrig song if you want...

59 posted on 08/15/2003 8:09:08 AM PDT by LowOiL (If you observe close enough, I will manage to have a typo in my tag line also...)
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To: meow
I'm very conservative and like Heavy Metal and bagpipes. Go figger.
60 posted on 08/15/2003 8:10:44 AM PDT by CholeraJoe (Reuters:A wholly owned subsidiary of the Left - We report, You comply.)
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