Introduction to Your Muscial Personality

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An Introduction to your Musical Personality A new study seems to move further towards proving the notion that your taste in music says a lot about who you are and what your personality is like. Adrian North, a professor at Scotland’s Heriot-Watt University has studied the link between peoples’ personalities and their choice of music. One finding that was striking was the personality traits shared between people with very different musical tastes. For example fans of heavy metal music are gentle, creative people who are generally at ease with themselves – which makes them very similar to fans of classical music. Hypothesis My hypothesis is that the music we like and choose to listen has a direct correlation to the type of personality we have. 1. Music can make you hardworking 2. Music can give you high self-esteem or make you outgoing 3. Music can help you be gentle or less aggressive 4. Music can make you more creative 5. Music can decrease stress and make your more at ease #1 Hardworking Listening to certain genres of music can increase or decrease your work ethic and help you become a more hardworking person or deter you from this goal. * North’s study was conducted using over 36,000 people in six different countries. This study shows that people who listen to music genres such as country western and pop music are more likely to be hard working and have a strong work ethic. On the other hand, people who listen to genres such as reggae or indie have a weaker work ethic and have less motivation to do things. * In my study, I was able to correlate the amount of hours that people spent on homework/schoolwork to the type of music they listened to. The results from my survey matched the study that was done by the professor and proved that people who listen to country, pop, or dance music spend more amount of time a week on homework.
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