Psychopath. Listen his name aja sure many of you already horrified. Moreover in the film, psychopath is described as a mysterious, evil, and killing figure. Because of this mysterious figure, perhaps many of you who do not realize that around you there is a psychopath wandering! Yeah, we almost can not tell which psychopath, where the average person, so smart they are disguised. You could say that psychopath has a thousand faces.
But as quoted from National Geographic, recently there is research that reveals one of the characteristics of psychopaths seen from his favorite music genre lho! Although not all people who like this type of music is a psychopath, but at least it can be a little open our knowledge about psychopaths.
A total of 200 people were tested to find out what their psychopathic score was by listening to as many as 260 different songs. That way combined with presenting a series of questions in musical questionnaires and psychological tests. The results of the questionnaire will be related to the psychopath score of the respondents. From this research researchers can find out what the preferences of songs psychopath and non-psychopath. Then what is the majority of respondents' songs preference with high psychopathic score? The answer is hip hop and R & B! Followed by rock genre.
"More specifically, Eminem's song - Lose Yourself and Blackstreet - No Diggity, so the two most preferred songs are psychopaths." - Reported Reader's Digest.
Whereas in a movie that tells about psychopath most songs that made backsound is classical music#
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Music plays an important role in a movie, let alone a horror or thriller genre, as it proves powerful to turn on the tension. The film 'Psycho' by Alfred Hitchcock worked on in 1960 is an example. The film is famous for the murder scene in the bathroom accompanied by high-pitched violin friction. That part became the most remembered scene in the history of cinema, although the killer was not shown clearly.
Hannibal Lecter, a fictional psychopath in Thomas Harris's Red Dragon (1981) novel is also described as a heavy lover of classical music. It is unclear why early why psychopaths in the entertainment industry are synonymous with heavy classical music. But obviously, in fact they tend to like popular music.
In the same research, in contrast, respondents with low psychopathic scores actually liked the song Sia - Titanium#
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The results of the above study also found the respondents with the lowest psychopathic score. This means that the nature or character of psychopaths in themselves is less than that detected psychopath. From these scores researchers can also conclude that non-psychopath is likely to like the song titled Titanium Sia. In addition to Sia, they also love My Sharona's The Knack.
Although the findings are very interesting, researchers realize that their research is still in the early stages. There are still many things that need to be explored in this study#
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Consciousness is still new to involve a handful of people just as respondents, the researchers in the research above considered his research is still in the early stages. There is still much to evaluate. In the future they hope to conduct a broader study by involving thousands of people to identify their psychopathic trends.
Song preference is one that can be seen to assess the characteristics of a psychopath. In addition to songs, there are many benchmarks that can be used to assess whether people around you are psychopaths or not. If you are curious what its characteristics can see Reader's Digest reviews here. Who knows there are people closest to you who turn out to be psychopaths!
