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Influences On Choices In Music

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Influences On Choices In Music

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Interesting Factoid

• The greater the activity in the Bilateral Insula, a brain region associated with anxiety and pain, the more likely you are to conform.

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The Main Factors

• Fear of social rejection

• Gender• The Big Five

personality traits

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Fear of Social Rejection

• Fear of social rejection: conscious or unconscious fear of not being accepted by society.

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Fear of Social Rejection

• Studies have shown that 79 percent of the time, people go with what is popular, rather than with what they would choose if they don’t know what is or isn’t popular

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Fear of Social Rejection

• Although this chart may indicate that a larger percent of people don’t care whether their friends like or dislike their music, they probably care at least a little bit.

76%

6%

18%

Would you listen to a band that your friends dislike?

Yes No Maybe

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Gender

• Males prefer exaggerated base in music

• Preference in base is correlated with antisocial and borderline personalities

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Gender

• Women often respond to music in a more emotional way than men, and usually prefer popular music more than males.

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The Big Five Personality Traits

• Include: Neuroticism

Extraversion Conscientiousness Agreeableness Openness

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The Big Five Personality Traits

• People who are extraverted, agreeable, and neurotic like upbeat and conventional music.

• Those open to new experiences prefer complex and rebellious music.

• More conscientious people react negatively to loud and rebellious music.

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The Big Five Personality Traits

• This chart shows that the largest percentage of people consider themselves to be generally outgoing. (One being not at all, ten being a daredevil)

1

3

5

7

9

0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9

On a scale of one to ten, how outgoing

do you consider yourself to be?

On a scale of one to ten, how outgoing do you consider yourself to be?

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In Conclusion…

• There are many factors that influence people’s choices in music

• Even if you don’t realize it, or try to fight it, your music choices are probably influenced by these things

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Work Cited

• Baird, Abigail. http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=in-teen-music-choices-fear-rules. 16 March 2010. 4 February 2013.

• Wikipedia. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music_cognition. 30 January 2013. 4 February 2013.

• Williamson, Victoria. http://musicpsychology.co.uk/personality-and-music-preference/. 22 April 2011. 4 February 2013.

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