Projects & Measures

Projects

We are involved in a number of Internet-based projects. Here are a few of them:

  • Outofservice - Big Five Personality Test - this is an ongoing project headed by Jeff Potter and Sam Gosling that includes questions about demographic characteristics and personality traits.
  • Outofservice - Musical Preference Test - this is an ongoing project with Jeff Potter that includes a number of questions about musical preferences and personality.
  • Musical Universe - this is an ongoing project headed by David Greenberg that has several musical and psychological measures, with over 150,000 completed tests.

In collaboration with Time Magazine we launched gamified surveys:

Measures

The Short Test of Musical Preferences

The STOMP is a 14-item scale assessing preferences in music genres. The STOMPR is a revised version of the scale assessing preferences for 23 genres. In the original version, we identified four broad music-preference dimensions. Subsequent analyses suggest that five factors provide a better fit for the data. You can download the latest version of the STOMPR below, along with instructions for computing scores for the four factor and five factor solutions.

Short Test of Musical Preferences - Revised (STOMPR)

STOMPR scoring instructions and reliabilities

Musical clips

In our more recent research we have used brief musical excerpts as items, in which participants are asked to indicate the degree to which they like the musical piece. Email us to access the clips used in this research.

  • To download the musical clips that we used in Rentfrow, P. J., Goldberg, L. R., & Levitin, D. J. (2011). The structure of musical preferences: A five-factor model. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 100, 1139-1157.
  • To download the musical clips that we used in Rentfrow, P. J., Goldberg, L. R., Stillwell, D. J., Kosinski, M., Gosling, S. D., and Levitin, D. L. (2012). The song remains the same: A replication and extension of the MUSIC model. Music Perception, 30, 161-185.

Personality

Profs. Sam Gosling and Rentfrow developed a brief personality measure for assessing the Big Five personality domains.