How Your Music Tastes Give an Insight into the Way You Think

The study, which was published in PLOS ONE journal, focuses specifically on two types of thinking: empathizers and systemizers. Empathizers are able to tune into the emotions of others whereas a systemizer is more likely to prefer rules and patterns that they can analyze, rather than something as subjective as human emotion.

Why we listen to the music that we choose to listen to is a big debate within the psychological field. What determines if we like a particular singer over another? Why do you like one specific genre over the others? One of the largest factors over why we favour specific types of music over others, researchers have argued, is explicit traits such as age, but it goes much further than that.