Author : Jonathan Hirin Stegall
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 89 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (14 download)
Book Synopsis Can Individual Music Preferences be Influenced by Imposed Artificial Music Personality Ingroups? by : Jonathan Hirin Stegall
Download or read book Can Individual Music Preferences be Influenced by Imposed Artificial Music Personality Ingroups? written by Jonathan Hirin Stegall and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 89 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The purpose of this study was to investigate whether assigning nonmusic majors to artificial music personality ingroups influences their individual music preferences. Participants were recruited from undergraduate nonmusic majors enrolled in a music appreciation course at the University of Alabama (N = 4,737). Survey participants (n = 130) were randomly sorted into three treatment groups, Popular Music Personality Group (n = 29), Classical Music Personality Group (n = 22), and World Music Personality Group (n = 21), and two control groups, Personality-Control (n = 27) and Control (n = 31). Participants listened to 15 samples of popular, classical, and world music. They rated their individual preference for each sample, and predicted the other participants' preferences for each sample. Responses were recorded using 7-point Likert-type scales. Results showed group assignment did not have a significant effect on participants' individual preferences for popular, classical, or world music. There were significant differences in how the treatment groups predicted the preferences of the World Music Personality Group for popular music (p