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Applying SIENA: An illustrative analysis of the co-evolution of adolescents’ friendship networks, taste in music, and alcohol consumption

Jodi L. Pearson and Stephen J. Dollinger - Music preference correlates of Jungian types

Abstract
The purpose of the current study was to explore the relationship between personality and music preferences, using the Myers Briggs Type Indicator. It was hypothesized that the sensing–intuition dimension would correlate with overall musical enjoyment. Thus, as compared with those participants who scored toward the sensing end, we expected high scorers (intuition end) to endorse more musical styles, particularly classical music, as well as to have greater musical training and involvement. This hypothesis was tested and confirmed with a sample of 104 undergraduates. Moreover, extraversion also correlated with overall musical interest, particularly for popular/rock music. Finally, thinking–feeling correlated with liking for country and western music. Whereas past research has conceptualized music preferences in terms of approach to or avoidance of stimulation, these findings support the notion of cultural involvement as a personality dimension.
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Individual weights indicated that intuition predicted liking of jazz/soul/folk (0.36, P<0.001) and classical music (0.27, P<0.05). Extraverts enjoyed popular/rock music more than introverts (introversion WEIGHT=−0.34, P<0.05). Those scoring toward the feeling end of TF were more likely to endorse country-western music than those scoring toward the thinking end (=0.27, P<0.01).

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Is there a basic correlation between personality type and musical preferences?

For the last 2 decades I listened to primarily popular/rock music, plus some jazz and classical. I had a huge collection of 70's progressive rock. A year ago I would have judged most electronic music as monotonous, soulless and often irritating. I also felt that "computer music" was exploiting never-ending stylistic niches and was not truly artistic.

Since less than 1 year ago, I listen almost exclusively to electronic and remix music. I now find most approaches to acoustic music to be pretentious and over-demanding, when they are not merely conventional. If I walk into a record store and I hear a Bowie song, I'll probably run out whereas for years I thought Bowie was God. I cannot even watch live "bands" anymore although I still go to a few shows in the clubs every month. My main staples are now artists like Orbital (no longer together, helaas), Aphex Twin and Chemical Brothers.

It's difficult for me to believe that my personality has changed so radically over the last year (mid-age crisis?). More likely I would assume that my listening focus has evolved due to my increasing exposure to new music, and to an exponential growth in the variety and maturity of the genres I now enjoy. In other words the culture and social exposure seem to override my personality traits (which in fact may be just a product as well). Am I like most music consumers?