Music and Personality

A professor from Scotland's Heriot-Watt University has been studying the links between people's personalities and their musical preferences. To summarize his findings:

Classical music lovers are creative but shy
Jazz lovers are creative too but more outgoing
Country and western music fans are hardworking but shy
Rap fans are outgoing
Indie lovers lack self-esteem and are not gentle
Heavy metal listeners are gentle, creative, and at ease with themselves
Soul music lovers are creative, outgoing, gentle, at ease with themselves and have high self-esteem
Pop music lovers are uncreative
Exciting, punchy music lovers are in a higher income bracket
Those who like relaxing sounds are usually in a lower pay scale

Taken from this link, "Musical Taste 'Defines Personality'", and this one, "Mozart And Metallica Fans Kindred Spirits".

The professor is still looking for volunteers to take part in the research.

I'm not really taking this study that seriously (we only have access to the articles after all, and not to the study itself). I wonder if there's a similar study for book preferences. You know, just for fun.