Could testosterone explain a love of Bryan Adams? Martyn Goodacre/Getty
Miles Davis or Mariah Carey? Your choice of music genre might be influenced by the amount of testosterone coursing through your body. Levels of this sex hormone have been linked to music taste, providing the first evidence that musical preference has a biological basis.
Most research into music tastes has focussed on the role of an individual’s personality, says , of Nagasaki University, Japan. “Extroverted people tend to like pop music, for example,” he says.
But could there be a biological explanation for such preferences? A range of…
