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RESEARCH PRODUCT

Effects of the Big Five and musical genre on music-induced movement

Marc ThompsonSuvi SaarikallioBirgitta BurgerPetri ToiviainenGeoff Luck

subject

Extraversion and introversionSocial PsychologyMovement (music)media_common.quotation_subjectMusicalNeuroticismMultivariate analysis of variancePersonalityRock musicPsychologySocial psychologyGeneral PsychologyInduced movementmedia_common

description

Nine-hundred-and-fifty-two individuals completed the Big Five Inventory, and 60 extreme scorers were presented with 30 music excerpts from six popular genres. Music-induced movement was recorded by an optical motion-capture system, the data from which 55 postural, kinematic, and kinetic movement features were computed. These features were subsequently reduced to five principal components of movement representing Local Movement, Global Movement, Hand Flux, Head Speed, and Hand Distance. Multivariate Analyses revealed significant effects on these components of both personality and genre, as well as several interactions between the two. Each personality dimension was associated with a different pattern of movement characteristics, with Extraversion and Neuroticism eliciting the clearest relationships. Latin, Techno, and Rock music, meanwhile, most clearly elicited different movement characteristics.

yearjournalcountryeditionlanguage
2010-12-01Journal of Research in Personality
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jrp.2010.10.001