In a study of 200 people who listened to 260 songs, those with the highest psychopath scores were among the greatest fans of a few select songs. As it turns out, psychopaths likely have a very specific taste in music, according to the study.
Only about 1% of the general population meets the psychological description of a psychopath, but the figure is far higher in prisons, where about one in five has the disorder. One estimate, from Kent Kiehl, a psychologist at the University of New Mexico, suggests that psychopaths cost the US government (taxpayers) $460 billion a year.
According to The Guardian, contrary to the movie trope epitomised by Alex in A Clockwork Orange and Hannibal Lecter in the Silence of the Lambs, psychopaths are no fonder of classical music than anyone else, though they do appear to have other musical preferences, psychologists say. Blackstreet number one hit No Diggity and with Eminem’s Lose Yourself rated highly among those who are considered “psychopaths.”
The New York University team that conducted the study says that the findings are still unpublished and preliminary, but so far, they are intrigued. The goal now is to launch a major study across the United States in which thousands of people at every point in the psychopathy spectrum will be quizzed on their musical tastes.
Tests on the second group of volunteers suggested that the desired songs could help to predict the disorder. Whatever their other personality traits might be, fans of The Knack’s My Sharona and Sia’s Titanium were among the least psychopathic, the study found. The researchers have a serious goal in mind: if psychopaths have distinct and robust preferences for songs, their playlists could be used to identify them.
“The media portrays psychopaths as ax murderers and serial killers, but the reality is they are not obvious; they are not like The Joker in Batman. They might be working right next to you, and they blend in. They are like psychological dark matter,” said Pascal Wallisch who led the research. “You don’t want to have these people in positions where they can cause a lot of harm,” said Wallisch. “We need a tool to identify them without their cooperation or consent.”
Scientists have already found gene variants that are more common in psychopaths, but they are hardly predictive of the disorder. They appear to alter people’s tendencies for empathy and aggression, but they do not determine people’s actions. Brain scans highlight distinct signs too, as the neuroscientist James Fallon discovered when he spotted the patterns of a psychopath in his own brain’s anatomy, but again, these do not set a person’s behaviour. Even if they did, the police cannot search for dangerous individuals by hauling people into brain scanners. –The Guardian
Wallisch recruited volunteers for the study on “musical tastes” but many of the participants had separately sat through a battery of psychological tests, including one called the Levenson Self-Report Psychopathy Scale, which ranks people’s psychopathic traits. By combining the volunteers’ answers from the music study with their results from the psychopath test, Wallisch identified songs that seemed to be most popular among psychopaths, and others favored by non-psychopaths.
Other than No Diggity and Lose Yourself, Wallisch declined to name the songs that did have predictive power to pick out a psychopath out of concern that doing so might compromise any future screening test or study.
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Poster Comment:
What, no Death Metal? I thought for sure that would be a favorite genre among psychopaths.
Blackstreet number one hit No Diggity and with Eminem’s Lose Yourself rated highly among those who are considered “psychopaths.”
No surprise there I suppose.
Whatever their other personality traits might be, fans of The Knack’s My Sharona were among the least psychopathic, .
That's encouraging news.
#20: Deckard To: no gnu taxes (#18)
Pretty sure Jack and Diane were teenagers.
Mellencamp himself was only around 30 at the time. Did he really think life peaks at age 16?
Never been a 16-year-old kid in love? Mellencamp was known as "John Cougar" at the time - apparently his real name was too "hillbilly-ish..
Life goes on, long after the thrill of living is gone.
The meaning is that your teenage years will probably be the most thrilling years for many people, especially a small town kid who dreams of being a football star.
FWIW - Mellencamp was interviewed by Charlie Rose and said that this song is about an interracial relationship between a black high school boy and a white girl, as Mellencamp himself has at least one black ancestor (great-grandfather?)
He said his record company persuaded him to omit all racial references in the lyrics and the video to avoid controversy and white backlash, which there definitely would have been, especially back in '82. You can see that interview on youtube, from 2014 I think.
YMMV.
Deckard posted on 2017-09-27 13:26:54 Reply Private Reply
#21: Tooconservative To: no gnu taxes (#18)
Me too. I just could not grasp the fawning over him as some musical genius that was like Bach, Beethoven, Mozart and Chopin rolled into one. A few of his music vids were okay but if you just listened to the songs by themselves...derivative stuff. Musically, he had nothing to say and his lyrics were pretty dull. Like a cheap punk playing air guitar and pretending he's Bruce Springsteen. Not that I am a big Springsteen fan but at least he did some fairly original stuff and had his own voice.
Tooconservative posted on 2017-09-27 13:28:04 Reply Private Reply
#22: Tooconservative To: Deckard (#15)
That might make a nice tagline.
Tooconservative posted on 2017-09-27 13:35:35 Reply Private Reply
#23: no gnu taxes To: Tooconservative (#21)
I liked him in the late 70s/early 80s. Then he became just another leftard activist.
no gnu taxes posted on 2017-09-27 15:03:13 Reply Private Reply
#24: Hondo68 To: Deckard, Rick Roll (#0)
Hondo68 posted on 2017-09-27 15:06:01 Reply Private Reply
#25: sneakypete To: Deckard (#0)
There is something seriously wrong with those people.
sneakypete posted on 2017-09-27 20:21:20 Reply Private Reply
#26: sneakypete To: no gnu taxes (#19)
Yoko Ono. Best argument EVER on the dangers of taking drugs.
sneakypete posted on 2017-09-27 20:26:48 Reply Private Reply
#27: sneakypete To: Deckard (#20)
Sounds to me like Mellencamp is looking for traction to play the pity card.
Maybe he thinks he can get more bookings as a minority?
sneakypete posted on 2017-09-27 20:28:41 Reply Private Reply
#28: Stoner To: misterwhite (#4)
Stoner posted on 2017-09-29 21:07:30 Reply Private Reply
#29: Stoner To: sneakypete (#26)
Right there with you Pete! I don't think Lennon was thinking, I think he was doing some serious heavy duty drugs, in massive quantities.
Stoner posted on 2017-09-29 21:11:22 Reply Private Reply
#30: Stoner To: misterwhite (#7)
Stoner posted on 2017-09-29 21:16:36 Reply Private Reply
#31: Liberator To: misterwhite (#7)
Liberator posted on 2017-09-30 10:00:32 Reply Private Reply
#32: Liberator To: Deckard, Tooconservative, misterwhite (#8)
Ok, Rock In The USA -- EXCELLENT song and vid that captured the mid-60s pop music essence.
Yes, Neil Diamond's other tune MW posted could well be the inspiration for ROCK In The USA (as well as the Romantics 'What I Like About You'), but I believe Cherry Cherry is the inspirational chord progression for both:
Liberator posted on 2017-09-30 10:09:39 Reply Private Reply
#33: Liberator To: Deckard, misterwhite (#9)
That is IN-SANE!! /Crazy Eddie
Liberator posted on 2017-09-30 10:10:48 Reply Private Reply
#34: Liberator To: Tooconservative, Deckard (#11)
It begs the question: What were you doing, and where you from '81-'85? Cougar-Mellencamp or whomever splashed a nice batch of iconic rock during that stretch.
You gonna tell me yo don't like THIS? (ok, so the video is low budget, sleazy, and homo-erotic, but that's besides the point ;-):
Liberator posted on 2017-09-30 10:15:52 Reply Private Reply
#35: Liberator To: misterwhite (#4)
Liberator posted on 2017-09-30 10:17:07 Reply Private Reply
#36: Liberator To: no gnu taxes, Deckard (#16)
Ok, I'll give you that. I think I read where he create that dreck because he was jealous of Roll and Roll Animal and the fancy live guitar work of Steve Hunter and Dick Wagner on Sweet Jane (best rock intro IMO ever.)
Liberator posted on 2017-09-30 10:20:51 Reply Private Reply
#37: Liberator To: Deckard, no gnu taxes (#20)
'Jack and Diane' was iconic-Americana.
The best tunes for me have an element of bitter-sweet nostalgia.
Liberator posted on 2017-09-30 10:36:41 Reply Private Reply
#38: Liberator To: Tooconservative, no gnu taxes, Deckard (#21)
(IMO, REAL "Pop/Rock" died by 1987 or thereabouts.)
Liberator posted on 2017-09-30 10:38:18 Reply Private Reply
#39: Liberator To: sneakypete (#25)
In the year 2017? Sure.
In the year 1967? Not so much.
Liberator posted on 2017-09-30 10:39:17 Reply Private Reply
#40: Liberator To: sneakypete, no gnu taxes (#26)
Yes...
OR, best argument AGAINST 1965's 'Third World Invasion Act'.
Liberator posted on 2017-09-30 10:41:00 Reply Private Reply
#41: Tooconservative To: Liberator (#32)
The article says it is less attractive to the psychos.
Oh, shit, now everyone is gonna think I'm a teacher's pet and that I actually read the articles. I'm totally screwed.
Tooconservative posted on 2017-09-30 11:44:31 Reply Private Reply
#42: Tooconservative To: Liberator (#34)
Hurts So Good made Mellencamp's reputation, both the song and the video. He never did anything else as good.
Tooconservative posted on 2017-09-30 11:46:24 Reply Private Reply
#43: Tooconservative To: Liberator, sneakypete, A K A Stone (#40)
That would explain a lot. LOL
Tooconservative posted on 2017-09-30 11:49:28 Reply Private Reply
#44: misterwhite To: Stoner (#28)
Surfin' Bird by the Trashmen (appropriate name) was a combination of the Rivingtons' "The Bird's the Word" and "Papa Oom Mow Mow." Both wonderful songs.
misterwhite posted on 2017-09-30 12:18:33 Reply Private Reply
#45: misterwhite To: Tooconservative (#43)
Is that similar to The Five Point Palm Exploding Heart Technique?
misterwhite posted on 2017-09-30 12:24:24 Reply Private Reply
#46: misterwhite To: hondo68 (#24)
misterwhite posted on 2017-09-30 12:28:01 Reply Private Reply
#47: Liberator To: Tooconservative (#41)
D'oh.
Oh, shit, now everyone is gonna think I'm a teacher's pet and that I actually read the articles. I'm totally screwed.
Which means you'd NEVER make it as an Elite Freeper.
8-P
Liberator posted on 2017-09-30 12:53:35 Reply Private Reply
#48: Liberator To: Tooconservative (#42)
'Jack and Diane' was his first hit I believe; 'Hurt So Good' and its riffs did seem to cement his rep.
'Small Town' was especially good. Then there was 'I Need A Lover'. 'Wild Night.'
Not an especially yuge fan of Cougar/Mellencamp, but his stuff was more than enough to make his mark on the music/pops scene.
Liberator posted on 2017-09-30 13:02:11 Reply Private Reply
#49: Liberator To: Tooconservative, sneakypete, A K A Stone (#43)
Def.
"Death Metal," Marilyn Manson, etc.
Liberator posted on 2017-09-30 13:03:15 Reply Private Reply
#50: Tooconservative To: Liberator (#48)
Same album, it seems. Seems you're closer to right than me though. Since Jack & Diane is a watered-down racial song, you can have it. I'll just say I never met a black woman named Diane. Blacks go for Dion or Dionne as names. Hurts So Good is just a better party/dance song. And it was a better music video too.
Wiki:
Tooconservative posted on 2017-09-30 13:31:02 Reply Private Reply
#51: Deckard To: Liberator (#38)
On the radio? Absolutely! It's still alive and well if you look for it.
The only "artists" who get their songs promoted and played on the radio are those who have sold their souls and are pushing the Illuminati agenda in one form or another.
Here's a few I've found:
Matthew Sweet & Susanna Hoffs, The Posies, The Connells, The Legal Matters, really too many to mention - you just have to search.
Corporate radio today is another tool for the NWO elites to disseminate controlled propaganda.
Others may call this an urban myth, but I've read that the major recording studios have a special room where there is a satanic altar and the recordings of all the big-name musicians are satanically "blessed".
DEMONS ON RECORDS
"I attended special ceremonies at various recording studios throughout the U.S. for the specific purpose of placing Satanic blessing on the Rock music recorded. We did incantation which placed demons on EVERY record and tape of rock music that was sold.
At times we also called up special demons who spoke on the recordings - the various backmasked messages. ALSO, in many recordings, we were ourselves recorded in the background (masked by the over-all noise of the music) doing chants and incantations to summon up more demons every time one of the records or tapes is played.
As the music is played, these demons are summoned into the room to afflict the person playing the music, and anyone else who is listening. The purpose of all this? MIND CONTROL! Mind control not only to give the listeners understanding of the messages about Satan conveyed to them by the music, but also to prevent them from recognising their need of Jesus. (See II Corinthians 4:4)
Somehow this rings true to me.
Deckard posted on 2017-09-30 13:44:25 Reply Private Reply
#52: Deckard To: Tooconservative, Liberator (#42)
Rain On The Scarecrow, Small Town, Paper in Fire, Pink Houses.
Yeah - he peaked in 1982. < / sarcasm >
Deckard posted on 2017-09-30 13:50:56 Reply Private Reply
#53: Tooconservative To: Deckard (#52)
Never heard any of them.
And you are right that he peaked in 1982.
Tooconservative posted on 2017-09-30 14:03:16 Reply Private Reply
#54: Tooconservative To: misterwhite (#45)
I was just tweaking Stone. He's off to the KY rock festival this weekend.
Tooconservative posted on 2017-09-30 14:05:45 Reply Private Reply
#55: Deckard To: Tooconservative (#53)
Then how can you say "He never did anything else as good"?
Deckard posted on 2017-09-30 14:12:52 Reply Private Reply
#56: Tooconservative To: Deckard (#55)
Using 34 keystrokes. It's easy.
Should I pretend that I care deeply? Would you feel better if I did?
You're very needy, high-maintenance. You seem to resent it if others don't share your tastes.
Tooconservative posted on 2017-09-30 15:55:46 Reply Private Reply
#57: sneakypete To: Liberator (#40)
Well,since she came from Japan and her father is one of the wealthiest bankers in Japan,she doesn't qualify as 3rd world.
OOPS! I forgot the mantra. She MUST be a Jew because her father is a wealthy banker and she is a left-wing loon.
My apologies to all.
sneakypete posted on 2017-09-30 16:24:02 Reply Private Reply
#58: sneakypete To: Liberator (#49)
Has he even put out what passes for a song for the last 20 years or so? If he didn't dress like a man and wear makeup like a woman he couldn't get arrested. His who "talent" was based on clothing and makeup.
sneakypete posted on 2017-09-30 16:26:44 Reply Private Reply
#59: Dead Culture Watch To: sneakypete (#57)
This thread is days old, here on THIS forum, and nobody brought up Richard Ramirez and his love of....ahem....AC/DC?
Wow, you guys are slipping.
8-)
Dead Culture Watch posted on 2017-10-01 03:00:04 Reply Private Reply
#60: Tooconservative To: Dead Culture Watch (#59)
In its final form, which was reached by mid-February 1969, the scenario had Manson as not only the war's ultimate beneficiary but its musical cause. He and the Family would create an album with songs whose messages concerning the war would be as subtle as those he had heard in songs of the Beatles. More than merely foretell the conflict, this would trigger it; for, in instructing "the young love", America's white youth, to join the Family, it would draw the young, white female hippies out of San Francisco's Haight-Ashbury.
Black men, thus deprived of the white women whom the political changes of the 1960s had made sexually available to them, would be without an outlet for their frustrations and would lash out in violent crimes against whites. A resultant murderous rampage against blacks by frightened whites would then be exploited by militant blacks to provoke an internecine war of near-extermination between racist and non-racist whites over blacks' treatment. Then the militant blacks would arise to sneakily finish off the few whites they would know to have survived; indeed, they would kill off all non-blacks.
In this holocaust, the members of the enlarged Family would have little to fear; they would wait out the war in a secret city that was underneath Death Valley that they would reach through a hole in the ground. As the only actual remaining whites upon the race war's true conclusion, they would emerge from underground to rule the now-satisfied blacks, who, as the vision went, would be incapable of running the world. At that point, Manson "would scratch [the black man's] fuzzy head and kick him in the butt and tell him to go pick the cotton and go be a good nigger".
The term "Helter Skelter" was from the Beatles song of that name, which referred to the British amusement-park ride of that name but was interpreted by Manson as concerned with the war. The song was on the Beatles' White Album, first heard by Manson within a month or so of its November 1968 release:
Former Manson follower Catherine Share, in a 2009 documentary called Manson, for Cineflix Productions et al., claimed:
Tooconservative posted on 2017-10-01 10:13:32 Reply Private Reply
#61: Dead Culture Watch To: Tooconservative (#60)
I mentioned RR and AC/DC because AC/DC is Stones favorite band. It was a good opportunity to troll him.
Dead Culture Watch posted on 2017-10-01 11:02:45 Reply Private Reply
#62: Tooconservative To: Dead Culture Watch, A K A Stone (#61)
I don't think he's returned from Kentucky yet.
We can only pray he doesn't return home totally addicted to smoking LSD.
Tooconservative posted on 2017-10-01 11:36:47 Reply Private Reply
#63: sneakypete To: Tooconservative (#50)
Cougar/Mellencamp,is a kneejerk leftist,and has about as much black blood in him as Snow White. He's lying because he wants to be one of the "trendy brutha vic-tums".
Think "Solidarity of the Shitheads".
sneakypete posted on 2017-10-01 12:38:49 Reply Private Reply
#64: sneakypete To: Deckard, Tooconservative (#55)
And there it is.
I despise that little punk,but he did put out some decent songs.
sneakypete posted on 2017-10-01 12:41:02 Reply Private Reply
#65: sneakypete To: Dead Culture Watch (#59)
I wasn't aware of it.
sneakypete posted on 2017-10-01 12:42:23 Reply Private Reply
#66: Tooconservative To: sneakypete (#64)
Deckard is certainly entitled to his opinion. He is not entitled to demand that I share his opinion or to demand some explanation of why I won't assent to his opinion. Like anyone actually gives a flying crap what I post about Mellencamp out here in some dusty backwater of the Internet on an obscure forum with less than 25 active posters, all middle-aged or elderly men.
Tooconservative posted on 2017-10-01 12:56:31 Reply Private Reply
#67: sneakypete To: Tooconservative (#66)
Then why allow yourself to get so worked-up over it? Almost none of know each other anyway,so what difference does it make if someone has a different opinion?
BTW,that applies to him and everyone else,too. Including me.
Right now I am too busy hating on and wanting to out that little homosexual on Meet the Depressed with the "butch" name of "Chuck". What I would really like to do is just beat the piss out of him,but I know that's not possible. It really shouldn't be hard for anyone with a upper-class income that lives in DC to "out" him,though.
I honestly don't care if he is a homosexual,but if I can use that as a tool to hurt him,I will do it.
ALL the freaking networks are controlled by the left in America,and they only hire "public faces/public voices" they can blackmail and control.
sneakypete posted on 2017-10-01 13:07:13 Reply Private Reply
#68: Tooconservative To: sneakypete (#67)
Exactly.
I'm not especially worked up about it. But I won't just let it slide either.
Notice he seems reluctant to return and defend what he was doing on this thread to try to ram his opinions down my throat. And over what? Some crappy Eighties artist seldom thought of other than over-Fifty seniors playing through their Greatest Hits of the Eighties playlist? Puh-leeze. How important can that be?
You might save your breath. He doesn't have the guts for hardcore sodomy IMO. It is not a hobby for those of delicate constitution. A man has to have some deep-set subconcious issues to embrace and practice it.
Tooconservative posted on 2017-10-01 13:34:00 Reply Private Reply
#69: sneakypete To: Tooconservative (#68)
I have no doubt that if given a choice,he will say "I choose to receive,RECEIVE!"
No guts required.
sneakypete posted on 2017-10-01 16:24:55 Reply Private Reply