{"id":70820,"date":"2021-04-09T18:03:38","date_gmt":"2021-04-09T22:03:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/?p=70820"},"modified":"2021-04-09T18:03:38","modified_gmt":"2021-04-09T22:03:38","slug":"report-study-says-music-taste-related-empathetic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/2021\/04\/09\/report-study-says-music-taste-related-empathetic\/","title":{"rendered":"REPORT | Study Says Music Taste Is Related To How Empathetic You Are"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-70821\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/04\/music_taste_study-feature_image.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"628\" \/><\/p>\n<p>If you like classical music, then you\u2019re likely to be open to new experiences, lower in empathy, and enjoy inspiring, intelligent, complex, and dynamic states.<\/p>\n<p>So says a <a href=\"https:\/\/journals.plos.org\/plosone\/article?id=10.1371\/journal.pone.0131151#sec019\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">peer-reviewed<\/a> study on the relationship between musical preferences and cognitive styles.<\/p>\n<p>The study noted that people judge music, and those judgments are closely related to the Big Five personality traits.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c\u2026Little is known about what determines our taste in music. We address this gap in the literature by examining the cognitive and affective underpinnings of musical preferences,\u201d the study states.<\/p>\n<p>They classified genres into five primary dimensions:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>M \u2014 Mellow (soft rock, R&amp;B, and adult contemporary genres)<\/li>\n<li>U \u2014 Unpretentious (country, folk, and singer\/songwriter genres)<\/li>\n<li>S \u2014 Sophisticated (classical, operatic, avant-garde, world beat, and traditional jazz genres)<\/li>\n<li>I \u2014 Intense (classic rock, punk, heavy metal, and power pop genres)<\/li>\n<li>C \u2014 Contemporary (rap, electronica, Latin, acid jazz, and Euro-pop genres)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The study used Empathizing-Systemizing (E-S) theory to show people tend to choose music genres that reinforce their personal characteristics. Type E (Empathy) referred to those with the ability to identify, predict, and respond appropriately to others&#8217; mental states. Type S (Systemizing), where those that recognize, calculate, and respond to systems&#8217; behaviour by analyzing it.<\/p>\n<p>For example, E types (those high in empathy) preferred music on the mellow dimension (R&amp;B\/soul, adult contemporary, and soft rock genres). Type S (inclination toward systemizing) preferred music on the Intense dimension (punk, heavy metal, and hard rock).<\/p>\n<p>Individuals with open personalities gravitated towards blues, jazz, classical, and folk music, while those who are extroverted and agreeable favour pop, soundtrack, religious, soul, funk, electronica, and dance music.<\/p>\n<p>Type E personalities (bias towards empathizing), preferred gentle, warm, and sensual attributes in music. They also enjoyed the emotional depth of dark and sad music. Type S groups valued \u201cstrong, tense, and thrilling\u201d music that seemed to balance their \u201ccerebral\u201d personalities.<\/p>\n<p>What does your taste in music say about you?<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"western\"><em>#LUDWIGVAN<\/em><\/h3>\n<p class=\"western\"><em>Get the daily arts news straight to your inbox.<\/em><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"western\"><em>Sign up for the Ludwig van Daily\u00a0\u2014 classical music and opera in five minutes or less <\/em><span style=\"color: #ff0000\"><a style=\"color: #ff0000\" href=\"https:\/\/bowtie.mailbutler.io\/tracking\/hit\/583e6ce0-dfd0-48be-8a33-61256b3c58e3\/a01723d1-1d1d-44ee-9d0c-779ed93a798c\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><i>HERE<\/i><\/a><\/span><em>.<\/em><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What does your taste in music say about you? A lot, says a new study.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":70821,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[38476,36,39],"tags":[33627,39634],"yst_prominent_words":[6767,6715,9434,37278,16469,25327,10607,29524,20111,16998,12762,25607,29527,29528],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/04\/music_taste_study-feature_image.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9bakr-iqg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70820"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70820"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70820\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70824,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70820\/revisions\/70824"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/70821"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70820"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=70820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}