Musical taste and the representativeness heuristic

The present research investigated how people judge the musical taste of others. In Study 1, participants were asked to judge the likely musical taste of 10 fictional individuals. Participants’ judgements of musical taste exhibited a common bias in keeping with stereotypes of musical taste; this bias...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Lonsdale, A., North, Adrian
Format: Journal Article
Published: Sage Publications Ltd. 2011
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/22819