People actively accumulate more music and continue to refine their tastes until around age 24, when it reaches a peak. During this time, one's identity and social groups begin to firm up, and people tend to challenge their aesthetic preferences less. Of course, there will always be magical exceptions , like those few grandparents who love trap. Several studies assert that people stop seeking out new music at around 33 and slowly gravitate back toward the music that was popular when they were coming of age.
In other studies, older people do report drawing far more pleasure from music that they heard in their 20s than any other period. Music from this time in people's lives is linked to some of their most impactful and exciting memories — from their first romantic encounters to uncertain career beginnings.
Still, people's tastes may shift based on their psychological and social needs. A study suggests that our tastes shift from more rebellious, intense music in our youth toward more sophisticated, relaxing music, which we use to calm ourselves after long days of dealing with the pressures of our jobs and kids, with several smaller stages in between.
It's still unclear which hypothesis holds more weight. In How Pleasure Works , a book by Yale psychology professor Paul Bloom, Bloom notes one doesn't hear a lot of "Rage Against the Machine being played in retirement homes," arguing old people's tastes from their 20s still rule their lives years later.
But when all the '90s babies hit the leisure home circuit, will a bunch of Notorious B. Type B personalities tended to display a broader range of preferences than either of the other types, not surprisingly.
Type S thinkers, conversely, tended to prefer more intense and structured music like heavy metal — or classical music in the avant-garde vein. An interesting study by researchers from Yale and the Hebrew University found that current moods affect the choice of music we listen to. In particular, the study found that depressed people tend to seek out and listen to sad music, which seems counter-intuitive on the surface.
After all, it seems more logical to listen to upbeat music to dispel a bad mood. Subjects of the controlled study, who had all been diagnosed with depression, were asked about their choices, and the majority said the sad music made them feel calmer and more relaxed.
Back in , an Ohio State professor hypothesized that, for some subjects, listening to sad music produced the hormone prolactin, which is usually released by the pituitary gland.
Prolactin is known to induce feelings of calmness and relaxation. Other research also points to the involvement of the hormone oxytocin, which some studies have linked to listening to slow, mellow music.
The results vary from person to person. The question is, why do some people release those hormones when listening to music, while other people do not? On the level of neurobiology, some evidence seems to suggest that Type E people have a larger than average hypothalamic region in the brain, which is the area governing the pituitary gland and prolactin secretion.
In Type S personalities, the evidence suggests that the areas of the brain that regulate analytic thought, the cingulate and dorsal medial prefrontal areas, are larger. My question is…Who runs this site and how can you not mention Country Music?
This is useless, almost everybody is extraverted and super social and super hardworking. This article appears to be written by someone who while growing up, hardly ever saw their extended family, especially grandparents, as their knowledge of different music genres appears to be quite limited. Also their personality trait assumptions for the various music genres, which were given, seems to be based on theorising from their own expereince with their own set of friends and not taken from years of observational research gathered by various means.
You can be a great creative mind, and you see listening to music as a theatrical experience. I do not think it surprising that metal fans would view listening to music as a theatrical experience. Lovers of progressive rock would also fit this category, yet the genre, and their fans were not mentioned.
Many metal fans are very intelligent ADHD types and they want to listen to metal to block out their overactive minds or thought processes.
Folk rock, bluegrass, country, country rock, technopop and jazz and its various types were also not mentioned. From personal observation and research I have noted that lovers of these genres are also very good at problem solving and articulate in their interaction skills with others of various walks of life and nationalities and ethnic groups.
Yet these people can also enjoy time spent on their own doing various intricate projects. Bossanova, lounge music and many others were not mentioned. Mainstream and unenquiring article.
Oh, so, if I could see more information about interest to gothic metal or gothic electronic But I see some notes about metal in general. All of which I listen to a lot. Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment. Notify me of follow-up comments by email.
Notify me of new posts by email. Hearing protection Music Party Lifehacks Loop. The Loudest Concerts in the History of Rock. Oh crap. Who am I? I listen to all of them…. Marvin: If you listen to and like all kinds of music then you are what one would call normal, intelligent and open-minded. Does the commenting function work on this blog? Or is there heavy moderation?
Please enter your comment! Please enter your name here. You have entered an incorrect email address! People who score better in empathy focus and respond more to the emotion of others, while those who score higher in systemizing like to analyze rules and patterns in the world around them. For the Cambridge study, more than 4, participants recruited through the myPersonality Facebook app were asked to complete a psychological questionnaire to determine their balance of both empathic and systemizing thinking.
They next listened to 50 musical pieces from 26 genres and rated the pieces. Systemizers on the other hand were more likely to enjoy intense music like punk and heavy metal. From a musical point of view, the study avoided a trap some others have fallen into. Genres of music are large and diverse, and the qualities and appeal of Giacomo Puccini is very different than that of John Cage.
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