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- Not all research supports the idea that personality traits play a role in determining musical preferences, however. One 2017 meta-analysis found that personality traits played very little of a role in accounting for these individual differences.
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Oct 1, 2017 · Thus, personality traits barely account for interindividual differences in music preferences. Musical functions are discussed as an alternative explanation for these differences. The predictability of musical style preferences based on individual psychological variables is questioned in general.
- Thomas Schäfer, Claudia Mehlhorn
- 2017
Jun 9, 2021 · Personality factors, typically determined by the Big Five Inventory (BFI), have been a primary method for investigating individual preferences in music. While these studies have yielded a number of insights into musical choices, weaknesses exist, owing to the methods by which music is characterized and categorized.
- Maya B. Flannery, Matthew H. Woolhouse
- 2021
The largest effects were observed for the openness to experience personality trait, which exhibited small correlations with preference for three musical styles. Thus, personality traits barely account for interindividual differences in music preferences.
Individual Differences in Music Preferences. Cattell and Anderson (1953) conducted one of the first investigations of individual differences in music preferences. Their aim was to develop a method for assessing dimensions of unconscious personality traits.
Jul 8, 2016 · Thus, personality traits barely account for interindividual differences in music preferences. Musical functions are discussed as an alternative explanation for these differences.
Results across samples showed that empathy levels are linked to preferences even within genres and account for significant proportions of variance in preferences over and above personality traits for various music-preference dimensions.
Thus, personality traits barely account for interindividual differences in music preferences. Musical functions are discussed as an alternative explanation for these differences.
