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Personality Secrets in Your MP3 Player

Posted by Hemos on from the learning-more-about-you dept.

Jeremy Dean writes "Once past saying 'hello' and 'how are you?' to someone you've just met, what is next? How do we make friends and get to know other people? Psychologists have talked about the importance of body language, physical appearance and clothing but they've not been so keen on what we actually talk about. A recent study put participants in same-sex and opposite-sex pairings and told them to get to know each other over 6 weeks (Rentfrow & Gosling, 2006). Analysing the results, they found the most popular topic of conversation was music. What is it about music that's so useful when we first meet someone and what kind of information can we extract from the music another person likes? "

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  1. Re:Likes country: emotionally stable by nova20 · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Usually, I find that "likes country" means "is a redneck, and proud of it".

  2. Re:Ugh. by c00rdb · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    someone with a taste in, say, pop and rap is probably someone who follows the popular trend and cannot think for themselves
    Nice work troll. Besides the fact that not all hip-hop (rap) is mainstream, did you ever think that these songs are popular because people like them, and not the other way around? Maybe, just maybe, some music becomes popular because people enjoy it. I'm sorry for blowing your brain with such a radical idea.
  3. Re:Ugh. by solosaint · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Are you drunk or did your mother drink lead water when you were just a fetus? Let me illustrate with one of your retarded statements... "Someone with a taste in, say, pop and rap is probably someone who follows the popular trend and cannot think for themselves" What about people who listened to rap before it was popular? if rap declines in popularity? Should the people who still listen to it be called free thinkers, no wait, how about musical rebels! Since when did going with what's trendy mean you couldn't think for yourself? You should picket outside Banana Republic and shout out "stupid followers!!"

  4. Re:Myers-Briggs Jung by Pojut · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    For two reasons.

    1. I usually have good ideas, which are a beacon for trolls (yes I am full of myself. Sue me.)
    2. I feed them.

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