Music style of thinking reveals an individual

Music style of thinking reveals an individual

Way of thinking, feeling and remember information from a person, you can predict from listening music.

Listen to Iron Maiden, Adele or Chopin can reveal their thinking. This was revealed by a study conducted by researchers at the University of Cambridge (UK) and published in the journal Plos One.

Psychologists defined two profiles: empathetic and systematic. People with empathy profile like focus and respond to the emotions of their peers, while systematically profile individuals prefer to analyze norms and standards.

The researchers noted that the style of thinking is a predictor of the kind of music you like a person. According to psychologists music is always present in our lives, in any place where we are and we can easily distinguish which songs we like, but do not always know what determines whether we like a type of music and not another.

The Cambridge research team, led by David Greenberg, reviewed how cognitive style determines the choice of music by 4,000 people through application Faceboook and other studies and questionnaires which were submitted. They also must put note to a list of 50 musical pieces, depending on his preference.

"We found that levels of empathy from one individual predict what kind of music they like," and even more than the personality says Greenberg.

In this study, the most empathetic tend to prefer melodic, folk, singer-songwriters, electronic, Latin and pop music. They chose songs like Hallelujah (Jeff Buckley), Come Away With Me (Norah Jones), All of Me (Billie Holliday), Crazy Little Thing Called Love (Queen). The people with systematic personality, however, remained more intense styles as Concerto in C (Antonio Vivaldi), Etude Opus 65 No. 3 (Alexander Scriabin), God save the queen (The Sex Pistols) and Enter the Sandman (Metallica) .

A more empathic music attracted them transmitting their emotions and reflective, sensual, warm, even sad tones. A systematic, liked the energy, strength and positive and complex emotions.

According to Jason Rentfrow, another author of the study, "this research highlights how music is a mirror of the self, it is an expression of who we are from the point of emotionally, socially and cognitively."

Other studies have determined that people who are open to new experiences tend to enjoy the jazz, blues, classical and folk genres and the outgoing and sociable, prefer pop, religious, electronic, soul, funk and dance songs .