Reserch i pesonality psychology address mainly peronality structe growth and development
Ther is growing concern amon personality and social psychologists that the breath of topic studis is too narrow and excludes many improtent facets of everyday life that are worth of sccientife attention
Therorectical and practical implications
Getting Acquainted Study
Particpants were free to talk about anything as they got to know each other online over a 6 week period
Music remained the most commonly discussed topic over 6 weeks followed by movies and football
Raymond Cattell
one of the first to theroize how music could contribue to understanding personality beleved that preferences for certain types of music reveals information uncoutious aspects of personality that is overlooked by most test
Cattel and Aderson 1953
Created I.P.A.T. music preference test a personality inventory compriisng 120 classical and jazz music excerpts in which respoders indicate how much they like easch musical item
Usfing factor analysis the identified 12 music preferneces factor and iterpeted each one as an unconscious reflection of sepcically personality charaterists
Rentflow Gosling
Using a broad and systematic selection of music genres and personality disension Renfrow and gosling examined the structue underlying music preferencs and the links between music prerences and personality
using multip smapl methos and georapic regions analysi of the misic prefernce of over 3,500 individual converged to reveal 4 dimensions
$ music prefrences diminsions
1 Relfeltive complex
classical jazz blues fold
2 Intense and Rebelious Rock heavy meatal alternative
3 upbeat and convetional pop county Reliogus music soudtracts
4 Energet and Ryhmic Rap soul fund Electonica dance
cue Utilization
link between an obserable cue and observers jugment of personality trait
Cue Velidity
the link between an observable cue e.g a prefrence for jazz and a targets actual personality trait