Music Choice Reveals Your Personality

Reuters

[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."

[Skooz]

IIRC, David Gilmour produced Big Country's first album, including the title track.

[wolficatZ]

And how many people who listen to rap actually know what "eschew" means or use it as part of their everyday vocabulary?

[bedolido]

Hmm...I like bluegrass

as a boomer, I miss the Kingston Trio (I know not bluegrass) and some of the old folk groups. Maybe it was just the simplicity of the times... albeit, the Vietnam war was just heating up.

[sushiman]

" I went to a Devo concert once -- it was great. "

Me , too , on Long Island . LOUD ! EXC. concert . Fun .

[RosieCotton]

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

I love Runrig! I just discovered them a few months ago. One of those "how could I have missed THIS?" kind of moments. Wolfstone is another MAJOR favorite.

I don't think I've heard Big Country, though the name sounds familiar, and I have a feeling I may have something by them on a compilation CD. Are they kind of 'grassy?

[oyez]

What's upsetting is that people get college credit for doing and others get paid for teaching this crap. I know the mascot of University of Texas is the longhorn Cow, but this a lot of bull..

[RooRoobird14]

What if your preferences are Broadway musical and movie soundtracks?

[bedolido]

And how many people who listen to rap actually know what "eschew" means or use it as part of their everyday vocabulary?

I had to look it up... as I'm working and listening to John Williams and Itzach Perlman play "Schindler's List"

[Arrowhead1952]

according to new research from the University of Texas at Austin.

Enough said!

If anyone believes reasearch from UT, you need to have your brain checked. That is one of the MOST liberal universities in the world. They also have the most obnoxious sports fans I have ever seen.

[dfwgator]

Ann Coulter is a "deadhead." Nuff said.

[Bluntpoint]

I like the song "Dead Skunk In The Middle Of The Road." It always makes me cry.

What does that make me?

[Skooz]

"Yo, What up G? What up B? Me 'n mah homies eschew gangbangin, pimpin' 'n thuggin' from the getgo 'cept if we dissed bah some rolling gansta crew with a hurt on. Then, we pop ya collar hardcore. Word."

[<1/1,000,000th%]

I listen to all of these.

[angcat]

I still love my 80's metal bands and I also love Jazz...WJJZ Philadelphia. This must make me a mental case!

[Skooz]

You mean Sirius or XM ?

[exile]

What are you if you like gansta rap and polkas?

[chris1]

Slayer RULES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Skooz]

Slayer RULES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

LOL! Slayer. heh heh