It's True: Some People Just Don't Like Music 268
sciencehabit writes "Researchers have found that between 1 and 3% of people don't like music of any kind. These people aren't tone deaf or incapable of grasping the emotional meaning of a song—their brains simply didn’t find listening to music rewarding. While some psychiatric disorders are associated with the loss of the ability to feel pleasure, called anhedonia, the music-haters represent the first evidence for not feeling pleasure from only one specific pleasing stimulant, a condition that has been dubbed music-specific anhedonia. Curious where you fall on the music reward spectrum? The researchers have an online quiz."
I know I actively prefer silence to most music, but what I like, I like intensely. Update: 03/06 21:48 GMT by T : Sorry for the garbled submission; now fixed.
Mind = Blown (Score:5, Funny)
HEY (Score:5, Funny)
I didn't know there were so many fans of Bieber.
Jazz (Score:5, Funny)
Everyone I know hates music (Score:4, Funny)
As soon as I start singing, they throw rotten fruit at me!
Re:disliker! (Score:4, Funny)
Well, to be fair, the words rap and music ARE mutually exclusive terms.