Study data on "attractiveness of metal fans"
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In your face, classical! Get bent, intelligent dance music! In a
survey of over a thousand gifted and talented teenagers conducted
by British psychologist Stuart Cadwallader, a third of those
surveyed listed heavy metal as one of their favorite genres of
music.
Honorary metal bro Cadwallader presented his findings to a
conference of the British Psychological Society this week. There
is a perception of gifted and talented students as being into
classical music and spending a lot of time reading, Cadwallader
reported. I think that is an inaccurate stereotype. There is
literature that links heavy metal to poor academic performance and
delinquency but we found a group that contradicts that. They feel
more stressed out and turn to heavy metal as a way of relieving
that stress. Participants said they appreciated the complex and
sometimes political themes of heavy metal music more than perhaps
the average pop song. It has a tendency to worry adults a bit but I
think it is just a cathartic thing. It does not indicate
problems.
