The effect of preference for three different types of music on magnitude estimation scaling behavior in young adults

Author(s): Petrosino, L., Banks, M., Zaums, K., Wilcox, C.

Journal/Book: Percept Mot Skills. 1996; 83: PO Box 9229, Missoula, MT 59807. Perceptual Motor Skills. 339-347.

Abstract: The purpose of the present study was to assess the effect of preference for three different types of music on magnitude estimation-scaling behavior in young adults. Three groups of college students, 10 who liked rock music, 10 who liked big band music, and 10 who liked classical music mere tested. Subjects were instructed to assign numerical values to a random series of nine suprathreshold intensity levels of 10-sec. samples of rock music, big band music, and classical music. Analysis indicated that subjects mho liked rock music scaled that stimulus differently from those subjects a ho liked big Land and classical music. Subjects who liked big band music scaled that stimulus differently from those subjects who liked rock music and classical music. All subjects scaled classical music similarly regardless of their musical preferences. Results are discussed in reference to the literature concerned with personality and preference as well as spectrographic analyses of the three different types of music used in this study.

Note: Article D Fucci, Ohio Univ, Sch Hearing & Speech Sci, Athens, OH 45701 USA

Keyword(s): ROCK-MUSIC; PERSONALITY; SENSATION; STIMULI; HEARING

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