How to determine your favorite music style man in his thinking Bashny.Net

Musical tastes person exactly defined his style of thinking. A survey of four thousand people pointed to the contrast between the tastes of those who pay attention primarily to the laws and mechanisms of world order, and those who value human relations. The research presented in the journal PLoS One.



Psychologists from the University of Cambridge took over the landmark theory of empathy-ordering of Simon Baron-Cohen. This scientist offers to divide people into categories more prone to ordering (the ability to understand causal relationships and find patterns) and empathy (which helps predict the behavior of complex nonlinear systems, which are not described by a set of laws). The former are more capable of natural and exact sciences, the mechanisms, whereas the latter is better interact with other people, feeling and understanding of their actions.

Scientists have found four thousand volunteers for their study through the Facebook-app myPersonality, which forces users to go through a number of psychological tests. Volunteers were asked to listen to and appreciate the 50 pieces of music genres and subgenres 26 to minimize the likelihood of unpredictable personal attachment to the individual musicians and the works.

People prone to empathy, fans turned soft and unpretentious music: soft rock, country, folk, electronics, euro-pop. They do not like heavy and rich composition genres of punk rock and heavy metal. Tastes taxonomists been precisely the opposite. These differences could be traced even within individual styles prone to empathy prefer soft and easy jazz and systematics - sophisticated, avant-garde.

Moreover, owners of high performance on a scale of empathy prefer low-power music (brooding, chamber music), sad and melancholic compositions and emotionally rich work. Systematics liked the energetic, cheerful, intelligent and aggressive music.

via lenta.ru/news/2015/07/23/musicthought/