Personality Impact On Music Taste (blog post #4)

ProQuest Platinum
Personality and Music Preferences: The Influence of Personality Traits on Preferences Regarding Musical Elements
Malgorzata Kopacz

http://search.proquest.com/docview/223566060/1355AF3E6B1799DFF2C/1?accountid=6222

• scientists did a study to determine how personality traits influence preferences regarding musical elements 
• personality traits were classified into analyzing Liveliness, Social Boldness, Vigilance, Openness to Change, and Extraversion, which all influence our taste in music
• people discover their musical taste based off their personality first of all, and the tempo, rhythm, melodic themes, sound voluminosity, and meter secondly.
• relationships between personality and musical preference come hand in hand, and we find our taste in music being unaware our personality affects this.
• the results of the studies show that certain factors also affect our taste in music which include emotional stability, dominance, sensitivity, apprehension, perfectionism, and tension.
• the studies also showed proved that individuals who are shy, socially timid, threat-sensitive, easily embarrassed prefer listening to songs with slower tempos, fewer melodic themes and more regular meters 
• they also showed that one's who are socially bold, outgoing, gregarious, adventuresome prefer faster tempos, a greater number of melodic themes and irregular meters as they choose the music they listen to.
• people who exceed the recommended dose for musical stimulation or lack of can produce symptoms of stress. (music with a high stimulative value, preferred by extraverts, may lead to stress in introverts, while music with low stimulative value, as preferred by introverts, may be a source of stress for extraverts)

Questions:
1) How are people that enjoy or are open to all genres of music characterized? (besides openness)
2) As we grow up, our personality changes, so does our musical preference follow?
3) Do the lyrics in the songs we listen to have a bigger role in our musical preference rather than the tempo or range in volume?

a. date of information published - Fall 2005
b. author:  Kopacz, Malgorzata
publisher: Silver Spring, American Music TherapyAssociation
source: Scholarly Journals
c. Yes, the author accurately provides the information with citing sources.