When you pictured a Justin Bieber fan back in 2010 you saw the stereotype of ‘Bieber Fever’ – twelve, screaming, probably crying, and wearing some godawful tour merchandise sold at a 50x markup. Nowadays it’s a bit trickier. Sure, he's not for everyone, but thanks to the Bieber Renaissance of 2015, we all begrudgingly love a tune or two, even if we won’t admit to being a fan. Depending on which song that is, however, you could be admitting to a lot more than being a low-key Belieber. You might just be a psychopath instead.
According to a study by New York University psychologists, people who enjoy listening to ‘What Do You Mean?’ are more likely to be psychopaths. Participants exhibiting more psychopathic traits favoured the track, along with Eminem’s ‘Lose Yourself’ and Blackstreet’s ‘No Diggity’. Meanwhile, those who ranked low on the scale preferred songs like Dire Straits' ‘Money for Nothing’, The Knack's hit, ‘My Sharona’.
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Pascal Wallisch and Nicole Leal set up the study to find out if liking certain genres of music had any correlation with psychopathy. Although they couldn’t find any correlation between certain genres and psychopaths, there were clear trends between certain songs and those who exhibited more symptoms.
One conclusion, however, was that the long-lived idea of psychopaths enjoying classical music seems to be a myth. The image of supervillains luxuriating in mansions listening to Beethoven is dead; it turns out they're just sat around listening to Bieber.
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This article originally appeared on The Debrief.