Cognitive Daily: Do our stereotypes about music fans match their actual preferences? “One of the most common “icebreaker” conversation topics is music preferences. We ask friends what they’re listening to on their iPods, bloggers post playlists on their sidebars, and one of the most popular websites on the planet (MySpace) is built around sharing music. The assumption is that musical preferences can tell us something beyond what someone likes to listen to — we believe we can judge a person’s personality, fashion preferences, and more based just on the style of music they prefer.” “When Rentfrow and Gosling asked 85 actual music fans to rate their own personalities, their own ratings agreed with the judges for just two of these genres: rock and religious. In fact, judges’ personality ratings correlated with actual ratings for only seven of the fourteen genres studied.” -yatta.

Cognitive Daily: Do our stereotypes about music fans match their actual preferences?

“One of the most common “icebreaker” conversation topics is music preferences. We ask friends what they’re listening to on their iPods, bloggers post playlists on their sidebars, and one of the most popular websites on the planet (MySpace) is built around sharing music. The assumption is that musical preferences can tell us something beyond what someone likes to listen to — we believe we can judge a person’s personality, fashion preferences, and more based just on the style of music they prefer.”

“When Rentfrow and Gosling asked 85 actual music fans to rate their own personalities, their own ratings agreed with the judges for just two of these genres: rock and religious. In fact, judges’ personality ratings correlated with actual ratings for only seven of the fourteen genres studied.”

-yatta.

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