Musical Preferences and Psychology

Note: Please look through resources very carefully. This is a controversial issue so some sources may have bias. Check carefully for the expertise or background of the writer or contributor.

Musical Preferences and Stereotyping

  1. Music Cognition Resource Center at Ohio State University
  2. Resources for Music and Science at the Royal College of Music, London
  3. A Blog and Resource for Music Psychology
  4. MusicCognition.info: A Resource and Information Center
  5. Musical Preference Study:
  6. Taste Profile Similarity: (requires Facebook):
  7. Musical Taste Quiz:
  8. The validity of social stereotypes associated withaesthetic preferences in music:
  9. You Are What You Listen To: Young People's Stereotypes about Music Fans: (requires Oviatt Library access)
  10. The content and validity of music-genre stereotypes among college students:
  11. “Singing in the rain”: The effect of perspective taking on music preferences as mood management strategies :
  12. Gender and Musical Taste Trends at a University:
  13. Stereotypes on Musical Preferences (Oxbridge)
  14. Musical Taste “defines” Personality (Reuters):
  15. The Structure of Musical Preferences:
  16. Children’s Gender Typed Preferences for Musical Instruments:
  17. Gender & Musical Taste.pdf
  18. Influences of Gender and Sex-Stereotyping of Middle School Students' Perception and Selection of Musical Instruments: A Review of the Literature
  19. Feminist Research in Music Education:
  20. “Shake It Baby, Shake It”: Media Preferences, SexualAttitudes and Gender Stereotypes Among Adolescents:
  21. Musical Taste and Stereotyping:
  22. Stereotype: The Influence of Music Preferences on Political Attitudes and Behavior
  23. Musical taste and the representativeness heuristic:
  24. Women in Brass: Re-examining gendered involvement in music: a preliminary report into musical preference stereotypes:
  25. BURGESS, MELINDA C. R., and SANDRA BURPO. "The Effect Of Music Videos On College Students' Perceptions Of Rape." College Student Journal 46.4 (2012): 748-763. Academic Search Premier. Web. 30 Jan. 2013.
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  27. Marshall, Nigel, and KagariShibazaki. "Two Studies Of Musical Style Sensitivity With Children In Early Years." Music Education Research 13.2 (2011): 227-240. Academic Search Premier. Web. 30 Jan. 2013.
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  29. MacLellan, Christin Reardon. "Understanding Your Band, Orchestra, And Choir Students." Music Educators Journal 97.4 (2011): 37-41. Academic Search Premier. Web. 30 Jan. 2013.
  30. L'vovskii, Stanislav. "A Crick In The Neck." Russian Social Science Review 52.6 (2011): 91-98. Academic Search Premier. Web. 30 Jan. 2013.
  31. Hansen, Christine Hall. "Priming Sex-Role Stereotypic Event Schemas With Rock Music Videos: Effects On Impression Favorability, Trait Inferences, And Recall Of A Subsequent Male-Female Interaction." Basic & Applied Social Psychology 10.4 (1989): 371-391. Academic Search Premier. Web. 30 Jan. 2013.
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  34. Sabelli, Sonia. "'Dubbing Di Diaspora': Gender And Reggae Music Inna Babylon." Social Identities 17.1 (2011): 137-152. Academic Search Premier. Web. 30 Jan. 2013.
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  36. Davis, Wes. "The New Old-Timers."Southwest Review 95.1/2 (2010): 89-115. Academic Search Premier. Web. 30 Jan. 2013.
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  39. Seidman, Steven A. "An Investigation Of Sex-Role Stereotyping In Music Videos." Journal Of Broadcasting & Electronic Media 36.2 (1992): 209. Academic Search Premier. Web. 30 Jan. 2013.
  40. Cynthia Webb, et al. "Gender Role Stereotyping In Advertisements On Three Radio Stations: Does Musical Genre Make A Difference?." Journal Of Gender Studies 16.2 (2007): 173-182. Academic Search Premier. Web. 30 Jan. 2013.
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  46. Musical Preferences as Signs of Who We Are:
  47. Lifestyle correlates of musical preference - University of Sheffield
  48. Connotations of Musical Preference:
  49. Influences on Musical Preference Formation:

Psychology of Musical Preferences

Not all of these articles may be available online. Please contact the library if you are in need of an article from this list

  1. Schellenberg, Glen E.; Mankarious, Monika (October 2012). "Music training and emotion comprehension in childhood". Emotion12 (5): 887–891. doi:10.1037/a0027971. PMID22642351.
  2. Brown, R.A. (01). "Music preferences and personality among Japanese university students". International Journal of Psychology47 (4): 259–268. doi:10.1080/00207594.2011.631544. PMID22248342.
  3. Langmeyer, Alexandra; Guglhör-Rudan, Angelika & Tarnai, Christian (October 2012). "What do music preferences reveal about personality: a cross-cultural replication using self-ratings and ratings of music samples".Journal of Individual Differences33 (2): 119–130. doi:10.1027/1614-0001/a000082.
  4. Vuoskoski, Jonna K.; Eerola, Tuomas (13). "Measuring music-induced emotion: A comparison of emotion models, personality biases, and intensity of experiences". Musicae Scientiae15 (2): 159–173. doi:10.1177/1029864911403367.
  5. Nusbaum, E. C.; Silvia, P. J. (7 October 2010). "Shivers and Timbres: Personality and the Experience of Chills From Music". Social Psychological and Personality Science2 (2): 199–204. doi:10.1177/1948550610386810.
  6. Dunn, Peter G.; de Ruyter, Boris & Bouwhuis, Don G. (16). "Toward a better understanding of the relation between music preference, listening behavior, and personality". Psychology of Music40 (4): 411–428. doi:10.1177/0305735610388897.
  7. Chamorro-Premuzic, Tomas; Fagan, Patrick & Furnham, Adrian (November 2010). "Personality and uses of music as predictors of preferences for music consensually classified as happy, sad, complex, and social". Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts4 (4): 205–213. doi:10.1037/a0019210.
  8. Chamorro-Premuzic, Tomas; Swami, VirenCermakova, Blanka (22). "Individual differences in music consumption are predicted by uses of music and age rather than emotional intelligence, neuroticism, extraversion or openness". Psychology of Music40 (3): 285–300. doi:10.1177/0305735610381591.
  9. Vuoskoski, Jonna K.; Thompson, William F., McIlwain, Doris, Eerola, Tuomas (February 2012). "Who enjoys listening to sad music and why?".Music Perception29 (3): 311–317. doi:10.1525/mp.2012.29.3.311.
  10. Nusbaum, Emily C.; Silvia, Paul J. (7). "Shivers and Timbres: Personality and the Experience of Chills From Music". Social Psychological and Personality Science2 (2): 199–204. doi:10.1177/1948550610386810.
  11. Hunter, Patrick G; Schellenberg, Glen E. (20). "Interactive effects of personality and frequency of exposure on liking for music". Personality and Individual Differences50 (2): 175–179. doi:10.1016/j.paid.2010.09.021.
  12. Djikic, Maja (August 2011). "The effect of music and lyrics on personality". Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts5 (3): 237–240. doi:10.1037/a0022313.
  13. Avila, Christina; Furnham, Adrian & McClelland, Alastair (9). "The influence of distracting familiar vocal music on cognitive performance of introverts and extraverts". Psychology of Music40 (1): 84–93. doi:10.1177/0305735611422672.
  14. Ladinig, Olivia; Schellenberg, Glenn E. (May 2012). "Liking unfamiliar music: Effects of felt emotion and individual differences". Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts6 (2): 146–154. doi:10.1037/a0024671.
  15. Pool, Jonathan; Odell-Miller, Helen (2011). "Aggression in music therapy and its role in creativity with reference to personality disorder". The Arts in Psychotherapy38 (3): 169–177. doi:10.1016/j.aip.2011.04.003.
  16. Barret, Frederick S.; Grimm, Kevin J., Robins, Richard W.,Wildschut, Tim, Constantine, Sedikides, Janata, Petr (June 2010). "Music-evoked nostalgia: Affect, memory, and personality". Emotion10 (3): 390–403. doi:10.1037/a0019006. PMID20515227.