These 3 Science Metrics Can Categorize Radiohead Better Than Spotify’s
In a study titled “The song is you: Preferences for musical attribute dimensions reflect personality”, published in Social Psychological and Personality Science, scientists from McGill, Cambridge, and Stanford explain that the psychological effects of music all fit within the categories of arousal, valence, and depth.
“[Genres] are essentially defined by social elements and industry, but what we want to move toward is the actual attributes in music that people are preferring and having an emotional reaction to,” David Greenberg, a lead author of the study and music psychologist at Cambridge University and City University of New York, tells Inverse.