Message in a Ballad

@article{Rentfrow2006MessageIA,
  title={Message in a Ballad},
  author={Peter J. Rentfrow and Samuel D. Gosling},
  journal={Psychological Science},
  year={2006},
  volume={17},
  pages={236 - 242},
  url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:16271901}
}
It is shown that individuals use their music preferences to communicate information about their personalities to observers, and that observers can use such information to form impressions of others.
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