Psychology of music preference - Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychology_of_music_preferenceThe relationship between musical preference and personality has remained a long-standing topic of contention for researchers due to the variability in results and the low-predictive power that personality has historically demonstrated on music preferences. A meta-analysis conducted by Schäfer and Mehlorn, (2017) of previous studies trying to determine if experience seeking or any of the Big-Five personality traitspredicted musical preferences revealed that the correlation coeff…
Why We Love Music - Greater Good
greatergood.berkeley.edu › item › why_we_love_musicJan 12, 2015 · “Musical rhythms can directly affect your brain rhythms, and brain rhythms are responsible for how you feel at any given moment,” says Large. That’s why when people get together and hear the same music—such as in a concert hall—it tends to make their brains synch up in rhythmic ways, inducing a shared emotional experience, he says.
Why is pop music so ... popular? - DEA ... - DEA Music & Art
deamusicandart.com › 2015/12/06 › why-is-pop-musicDec 06, 2015 · But yes, pop music is popular music and it appears there is scientific explanation for it’s popularity. Several studies have shown that the parts of brain responsible for emotions and especially our brain’s reward centers respond more actively to a piece of the music that it’s already acquainted with than to an yet unfamiliar song, even if the latter fits the person’s musical taste far better. Really, this is no surprise.