2018 Study: Negative correlation between test. concentration and preference for sophisticated music.

[KuriousKatKommittee]

Negative correlation between salivary testosterone concentration and preference for sophisticated music in males (2018)
https://www.sciencedirect.com/scienc...91886917306980

Highlights:

• We investigated the association between salivary testosterone level and music preference.
• The analysis revealed a negative correlation between testosterone level and the preference for sophisticated music.
• The association between testosterone level and music preference was not mediated by big-five personality.

The study failed to find a link between testosterone levels and musical taste in female volunteers, but for the males a clear link soon emerged. Higher testosterone levels in males was linked with a preference for a type of music that the researchers labeled as "unsophisticated.

This category encompassed genres such as both

* soft and heavy rock

Individuals with lower testosterone levels were more inclined to enjoy what the researchers labeled as "sophisticated music," a genre that included both

* classical and jazz

https://www.newsweek.com/psychology-...ic-jazz-785506

Related study:

Empathizers tended to prefer mellow, sensual, reflective music with emotional depth, such as “Come Away With Me” by Norah Jones. Soft rock and singer-songwriters tend to produce this type of music.

On the other hand, the logic-oriented “systemizers” preferred quite intense, manic music, which includes the punk rock track “God Save The Queen” by the Sex Pistols; heavy rock and classical tracks were also often chosen as favorable by systemizers. Conversely, systemizers seemed to enjoy acknowledging and picking apart the complex instrumentation of other types of music. “It’s almost like a musical puzzle that they’re putting together[.]”
https://www.iflscience.com/brain/you...hetic-you-are/

[Zmey Gorynych]

Rock music is not unsophisticated, it may have been so in the beginning.