Study: Music tastes linked to personality

Pic from Gabriel Galvao on Flickr

Just saw this. A study involving 36,000+ people ties certain personality traits to musical genre preferences.

Here are some findings...

Bollywood: Creative, Outgoing
Samba: High self-esteem, creative, outgoing, gentle and at ease
Blues: High self-esteem, creative, outgoing and at ease
Funk: High self-esteem, creative, not hardworking, outgoing and at ease
Jazz: High self-esteem, creative, outgoing and at ease
Classical music: High self-esteem, creative, introvert and at ease

Opera: High self-esteem, creative, gentle

Easy listening: High self-esteem, not creative, hardworking, outgoing, gentle and at ease

Country and western: Hardworking, outgoing

Rap: High self-esteem, outgoing

Reggae: High self-esteem, creative, not hardworking, outgoing, gentle and at ease

Dance: Creative, outgoing, not gentle

Disco: High self-esteem, not creative, hardworking, outgoing, gentle

Indie: Low self-esteem, creative, not hard working, not gentle

Punk: Lack self-esteem, creative, not hard-working, not gentle

Rock and roll: High self-esteem, creative, hardworking, not gentle, at ease

Rock/heavy metal: Low self-esteem, creative, not hard-working, not outgoing, gentle, at ease

Chart pop: High self-esteem, not creative, hardworking, outgoing, gentle, not at ease

Soul: High self-esteem, creative, outgoing, gentle, at ease

Swing: High self-esteem, creative, at ease

I gotta get me some Samba tunes.

Watch the short video and findings recap here.
Read the article here.
Or be a part of the still growing study here.