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For 35 participants, 12 men and 23 women, scores on the Tellegen Absorption Scale significantly correlated with ratings of how much they liked music. After completing the scale, each participant listened to eight 4-min. selections of music presented in quasirandom order. These were excerpts from classical, new age, rock, and country music. Each was rated on a scale from 1, for strongly disliked, to 5, for strongly liked. The Pearson correlation of .51 between the Absorption Scale scores and the mean rating scores collapsed across all types of music was significantly greater than zero. Correlations for each of the various types of music were .51 for classical music, .40 for new age music, .20 for rock music, and .11 for country music.

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Absorption and Enjoyment of Music

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