Zimmel:

OCTOBER 16th
-first science fair meeting
-find partner and come up with ideas

Zimmel:
OCTOBER 18th, 2024
IDEAS
-how do different ages react to nostalgia?
-anything with genetics (maybe???)
-crime?
-disease?
-the science of curiosity (what is curiosity? Does it mean anything for intelligence? How does
age affect it? etc…)
-why do we like the music we like? (why do we prefer some tunes compared to others? Why is
almost everyone different? Does brain development affect it? Personality? Etc etc)
-why do we cry/laugh
-what is the placebo effect?
-why do we follow trends?
-how do we develop phobias?
-sharks versus dolphins
-megalodon vs leviathan
-why the megalodon is not alive
Jagreet:
-what leads us to pick and like different types of clothes?

Zimmel:
OCTOBER 23rd 2024
-second science fair meeting
-finalize partner, top three ideas

Zimmel:
OCTOBER 30th 2024
-register
-finalize ideas

Zimmel:
-NOVEMBER 1st, 2024

IDEAS
OUR PROJECT
Different Personalities and their Playlists - the psychology behind your music taste

The Plan
Make our participants take the most scientifically accurate personality test (understand what
personality actually is and its relation to human psychology)]
We will back up our usage of this test by its connection to psychology and the brain (what the
brackets above describe)
We will see how the brain is affected by music, and the psychology of it (parts of it and what
happens)
Connect the personality tests psychology and brain is affected by music

The Question
How does the personality of an individual affect their unique music taste?

The Experiment
Make all participants take the quiz
Have them share the answers
Show favorite songs and playlists
___
Then we draw connections, conclusions, and patterns between the quiz results and the music

Zimmel:
NOVEMBER 13th 2024
-science fair meeting
-told to get ethics sheet

Zimmel:
NOVEMBER 20th 2024
Basic Project Info completed and done
Complete ethics due care 2a

PROJECT SUMMARY
Understand what personality is, the human psychology of it, and have our participants take the
most accurate ‘personality test’
And then the psychology behind music, how the brain is affected by it, etc
Connect it to the music and playlists

Zimmel:
NOVEMBER 23rd 2024
NEW INFORMATION!!!! There is no such thing as the most accurate personality test
You can not define the personality of somebody through a series of multiple choice questions. It
will never be accurate. Personality is ever changing, and isn't a concrete idea, and therefore can
not be fit into a box. So, why do we like music?? What about us leads us to certain songs and
tunes??
So with that, we then research the psychology of music and what's going on there. But I'm
assuming we come to the conclusion that music taste isn't consistent and we actually have a
wide variety of songs and beats we like, because we are constantly experiencing different
moods throughout the weeks and days.

So to prove this we will gather the most listened to music throughout the months for our
participants, and hopefully it matches with my hypothesis.
Yay!!

What connections are we drawing through music and the pseudoscience of personality tests?

The media online suggests many things about personality and how it affects your music taste. If
you're one way, you listen to one type of music, and if you're this other way, you listen to this
other type of music (find example later rarararara jagreet if you have any write it down!!) but in
reality, that isn't true. Then go into explaining the pseudoscience on what we believe to be
personality, and the effects of personality tests, and that to music. And then it's like well what
does affect our music taste?? And we dive into music and the brain, and from there draw a sort
of conclusion, which HOPEFULLY is backed up by our experiment. Your personality isn't
consistent, and neither is your music taste because it isn't based on that, but rather something
else entirely.

YAY!!!

But how does that prove the pseudoscience of personality tests??? It's more so just proving that
your music isn't based on personality. Jagreet if you have any ideas write them down!! This will
be our question for this week.

Maybe because music psychology is already a well developed scientific field, and it doesn't
mention that personality can affect it. But we need something moreeeee. Maybe people think
certain moods and emotions are part of certain personalities, which then relates to music,
because music is a big part of tuning in with emotions. But in reality, everyone experiences
every emotion and isn't for certain people, who then listen to certain music. So personality tests
sorting you into boxes like that, harmful because nobody is completely black and white and
rather a mixture of all traits and emotions, rather than having these personality tests which box
you into a certain set.

Jagreet:
I feel like we could relate one person's recent music taste to their past music taste to see how
one person changed overtime and we can try to ask them (if they're comfortable) with what they
went through or what changes occurred in their life that led to them listening to different music.
Zimmel:
I like that idea, it would give a good sight into how the idea that personality quizzes that box
certain emotions and traits are completely redundant, because everyone experiences
everything.

Zimmel:
NOVEMBER 27th 2024
- Science fair meeting
- Answers questions and clarifications
- Will receive consent forms in order to start experiment
Zimmel
NOVEMBER 29th 2024
- Read over the criteria and what is required of using animal subjects (document from
CSFY)
- Read over the document describing what low risk is
- Received consent forms
- Sent ms fan questions

Zimmel
DECEMBER 4th 2024
-science fair meeting
-answered questions and uncovered new information

We need more participants as it will eliminate bias within our data. Get more diversity and
variation within our contestants, so that our data shows what our hypothesis represents and inst
affected by any bias.

Check out google scholar, to see how other experiments with more of a psychological based
experiments, so we can see how to perform affective research and experiments.

Zimmel
DECEMBER 5th 2024
-got many participants!!

OK WHAT WE HAVE SO FAR REGARDING THIS

PHASE ONE
- Research the pseudo science, why, what, when, where, how (specifically the MBTI)
- Why we use them however, and how its engrained in society, media, etc. (who, what,
when, where, why)

PHASE TWO
- Research MUSIC PSYCHOLOGY (who, what, when, where why, how)
 - And how it specifically relates to who you are, and everything about that

PHASE THREE
- Come up with a solid experiment that relates the music psychology, and how it defies the
theories of the MBTI
- Once we have a concrete idea, the experiment will commence with all the stages of the
scientific method

NOTE - RESEARCH AND SEE OTHER EXPERIMENTS INVOLVING PSYCHOLOGY TO GET

AN IDEA ON HOW TO PLAY IT OUT (google scholar)

December 21 2024
Jagreet:
-started research on the psychology of music and how it diversifies between different age
groups and genders!!! ( addresses questions of how the mind responds to, imagines, controls
the performance of, and evaluates music)

-got participants from my basketball team of different ages and grades!!!!

Hey jagreet, we discussed that your actually researching the pseudoscience of personality tests
(MBTI) instead !! just here to clear confusion :)

Zimmel
DECEMBER 18th
Got science fair description edited by Ms Fan

Zimmel
December 23rd
Edited the science fair description by a lot, and cleared up ideas. Waiting for ms fans approval.
Once submitted, I will begin researching MUSIC PSYCHOLOGY

Zimmel
December 25th
Submitted ethics sheet!! No idea how long it will take to get back !! :’D

What even is music psychology?

[Link]
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(foundation in music psychology - theory and research - published by MIT press edited by
Daniel J. Levitin, Peter J. Rentfrow)
[Link]
es.3 (its good trust)
[Link]
[Link] (music by Diana Deutsh)

Music psychology - understanding the ways in which people react to music, from the way they
respond, remember, and create to it. It has grown as an interconnected component within the
many branches of psychology, with the understanding of
-perception (how we take in the world through our senses ) Psychology of Perception - an
overview | ScienceDirect Topics
-cognition (part of perception, the inner workings of your brain. (thinking, memory, problem
solving etc) Cognitive Psychology: The Science of How We Think
- human development (improving the well being of ones self) About Human Development -
Measure of America: A Program of the Social Science Research Council.
- and personality psychology (studying the nature and development of personality) Personality

All of these branches of psychology, go hand in hand with music psychology, as the songs and
tunes we indulge in throughout our lives affect who we are, in many areas.

According to foundation in music psychology by Daniel J. Levitin, Peter J. Rentfrow, the reason
that music has a psychological on us as humans is due to pitch and melody

PITCH is the the sound of music, produced by the waves making it. Pitch Definition & Meaning -
Merriam-Webster how high or low the note is, determined by the frequencies (number of waves
in a given second) What is Frequency? | Definition, Formula & Examples - Lesson | [Link].
Of its vibrations. A guitar, ukulele, and bass all have LOW pitches, and HIGH pitches. Initially,
pitch is how high or low a no, depending on the waves [Link] Is Pitch in Music?
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And Paired with the musical identity of HARMONY

Which is taking these notes to make a complimentary sound.
[Link]

Both of these features of music have a psychological affect on the brain Cognitive Crescendo:
How Music Shapes the Brain’s Structure and Function - PMC

December 27 2024: Jagreet

I started off by researching the types of MBTI personality tests and what it really is!
So what MBTI stands for is Myers-Briggs Type Indicator. Its a tool to understand peoples
personality types based on how they prefer to

1. Take in information (sensing vs. intuition)

2. Make decisions (thinking vs. feeling)
3. Focus their energy (introversion vs. extroversion)
4. Organize their life (judging vs perceiving)
These factors sort people into 16 different types of personalities like INFJ, ENTP, etc.. which
really describe how they think, feel, react and etc..

[Link]
● How does MBTI personality tests help a person find out what career is best suited to
them?: The scores suggest to you that Mary is a logical person who is achievement oriented,
quick to identify flaws in others, and values truth over tact in herself and others. Based on these
observations, you conclude that Mary may not be well suited for work that requires empathy for
others' feelings and tolerance for ambiguity. Instead, you suggest to Mary that her strong points
are tile ability to focus her attention upon objective information and to make rational decisions.
You then advise Mary to consider alternative careers that match her education, abilities, values,
and personality.
● History behind MBTI tests: The MBTI was developed by Isabel Briggs Myers and her mother,
Katherine Briggs. Katherine Briggs became interested in type theory after reading Carl Jung's
book, Psychological Type. Isabel Briggs Myers shared her mother's interest in type theory and
began to create the MBTI in the early l940s as a test to be used for personnel selection.3 Myers
believed that different occupations favored different personality orientations, and that Jung's
theory provided a theoretical link between personality and job performance.