This is what the songs you love teach about your personality

Connecting to Ed Sheeran's songs?

Sick of Lady Gaga?

Still can not get rid of Nirvana songs on the go?

Researchers from the UK analyzed data on more than 350,000 people and concluded that music says a lot about who we really are

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28/04/2022

Thursday, 28 April 2022, 18:06

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Sometime between all the whirlpools of adolescence, most of us develop a musical taste, which probably also undergoes quite a few incarnations and changes over the years.

A lot of people declare that they "hear everything" and that they are open to all genres - but the list of most played songs in their favorite app will definitely testify otherwise and can also reveal hidden secrets about what makes up who we are.

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To understand all this, one does not have to be a scientist, and yet the question of how much it exactly affects us - is certainly one that is interesting to examine with scientific tools.

This is exactly what a group of researchers from the British University of Cambridge did, which collected data on more than 350 people in more than fifty countries around the world.

The findings, you probably understand, will not provide insights into your fondness for Noa Kirl's hits or Shlomo Artzi's acoustic performances, but they do have universal insights that anyone can connect to.

Ed Sheeran is a British star we all know.

His hit Shivers, the researchers found, is loved by people from all over the world - from Argentina to India - with most of them sharing one thing in common.

These are more outgoing people according to the personality questionnaires they filled out.

This means that they have higher self-confidence, a better level of communication and also a need to receive positive reinforcements from the environment.

On the other hand, one of the most iconic rock anthems of the nineties, Smells Like Teen Spirit, teaches a completely different insight regarding those who still have a warm corner in their hearts.

The researchers stressed that today these are usually Americans, who according to personality questionnaires are considered more neurotic compared to others.

This means they are more sensitive, shy, self-aware, sometimes a little too much, and also tend to suffer more from anxiety and depression.

Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper will also teach you about yourself

It's a little hard to believe that it's been almost four years since the movie "A Star Is Born" was released, directed by Bradley Cooper, who also starred in it alongside Lady Gaga.

The song at the center of the film, Shallow even won Lady Gaga the Academy Award for Best Original Song.

The song, which is probably playing in your head right now, was also part of the study in question - and the researchers stressed that those who tend to connect with it share similar character traits to those of those who like Marvin Gay's What's Going On.

The study shows that these people are usually very pleasant - that is, show sympathy, kindness and love for others.

And if you'm a fan of David Bowie, or more specifically of the song Space Oddity, you'll probably be more open to new experiences and discover greater spontaneity than others.

Leading the study is Dr. David Greenberg of Cambridge University - who is also a psychologist, brain scientist and musician. Speaking of the findings in an interview with Sky News, he said: Around the world. "He added:" People may be separated by geographical location, language and culture - but if introverts on one side of the world love the same music as introverts on the other, it suggests that music can certainly be a powerful bridge. "

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Before conducting the study, Dr. Greenberg and his team estimated that externalities, that is, the tendency to seek thrills and feedback from the environment, would be associated with up-to-date and happy pop music, a genre that varies from country to country. As dramatic and aggressive.

But what really surprised the experts was the data on neuroticism. "We assumed that neuroticism would make people prefer sad music, which expresses their loneliness, or rather optimistic music, to change their mood," said the researcher. ‘Dramatic and intense’ by definition.When trying to explain the data, he said the choice probably reflects the anxiety and frustration that those people face.

The climate also affects our taste

As mentioned, the expectation in the study was that extroverted people would prefer “uplifting” and contemporary music.

In practice, experts have indeed found such a connection - but only in very specific regions of the world.

In the equator - and especially in Central and South America, those extroverted people preferred bouncy pop songs.

The researchers believe that this may be due to climatic factors affecting musical preferences, meaning that people in warmer regions - will enjoy more rhythmic music that can be danced with.

It is interesting to think what such a study would have looked like if it had been conducted in Israel.

Is pop music preferred here by people with high self-confidence?

Do the children of Aviv Geffen's "Moonlight" really share similar character traits?

And what would the learned scientists from Cambridge think of "Cocktail" or "Todo Boom"?

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