The BBC reports on research by Professor Adrian North of Heriot-Watt University into the link between music tastes and personality. people have done this sort of thing before, but what makes this research different is the scale with many thousands taking the online questionnaire. You’ll see on the BBC website that a number of musical genres are featured along with the personality traits of those who listen to it. Being the BBC it’s all fairly broad brush-strokes kind of stuff. For a genre hopper like me (I listen to a number of the genres identified), my personality traits are:
High self-esteem, creative, gentle, outgoing, not gentle, Low self-esteem, not hard working, at ease
Some contradiction in the esteem and gentility department, but then every human on the planet is a glorious mess of contradiction, the rest is pretty accurate. I’d quite like to read the full research outcomes though.
