Study: What sort of music to truly intelligent people listen to? Let’s find out.
A new study entitled Intelligence, music preferences, and uses of music from the perspective of evolutionary psychology looked the music preferences high-IQ individuals. What do they listen to?
The study, conducted by, Elena Racevska, a PhD student at Oxford Brookes University and Meri Tadinac of the University of Zagreb has this say. From Inc.
“Racevska told PsyPost that she was fascinated by the idea, hypothesized by Dr. Satoshi Kanazawa of the London School of Economics, that intelligence sprouted in humans because they were desperate to deal successfully with things they’d never seen before.
“So she and her fellow researcher devised a nonverbal intelligence test and a music questionnaire, got hold of 467 high school students in Croatia and wondered what they’d discover.
“In Racevska’s words:
Individuals with higher intelligence test scores are more likely to prefer predominantly instrumental music styles.
“There you have it. All those Bach-listening, Kraftwerk-loving, ambient-adoring strange people in your life are actually the brainy ones.”
However, there’s a twist. Keep reading.
