Does The Music You Listen To Predict Your Personality?

Does whether you like rock music rather than pop or country say something about your personality? I would have thought not, but we ran a study, and it turns out yes - in the U.S., your music tastes predict aspects of your personality! Much to my surprise, liking rock and classical music predicts the same things about your personality: having greater "openness to experience" (a personality trait from the Big Five framework) and being more intellectual. Makes sense for classical, but who wo...
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Why Do Some People Have Better Intuition?

Here’s what I think: intuition is mainly a set of patterns, evaluations, anticipations and predictions that we learn from experience.  Intuition differs in effectiveness across people and tasks because: Focus: We have experience in different domains. One person spends their time cooking, another training in martial arts. Wideness: Most have experience in more than one domain, and there can be cross-domain synergies as well. Perhaps the martial artist cook has an advantage. Time: ...
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