[Hormonal Fingerprint] Your Favorite Music Comes From Your Heart!

We are studying further the impact of hormones on our music preferences. It seems that, the more you are testosteron-driven, the more you embrace a variety of musics.

One point is sure from previous studies: our favorite rhythm in terms of music is the one that corresponds to our heartbeat.

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I measured for me with a metronome and the result was definitively folk metal. You can try at home too.

Source: Iwanaga M, “Relationship between Heart Rate and Preference for Tempo of Music”, Perceptual and Motor Skills, 1995.

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