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SUMMARY:There is accounting for taste! Detecting Age and Gender Variations
  in Music Taste using MIMIC Model - Arielle Bonneville-Roussy (University 
 of Cambridge)
DTSTART:20130226T163000Z
DTEND:20130226T173000Z
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CONTACT:Luning Sun
DESCRIPTION:For more than fifty years\, psychologists have attempted to di
 sprove the proverb ‘There is no accounting for taste.’ . Indeed\, rece
 nt research has shown that the liking of books\, movies and music can part
 ially be explained by psychological factors such as personality\, values a
 nd stereotypes. However\, many effects are obscured by age- and gender- re
 lated variations in taste in general\, and in particular music taste\, and
  attempts to adjust for these effectively have been few and far between. I
 n the present study\, a very large sample of participants has been asked t
 o indicate their liking of several music genres\, such as ‘classical’ 
 and ‘country’. Modelling of the relationships between age\, gender and
  the factorial structure of music taste has been conducted using a Multipl
 e Indicator Multiple Cause (MIMIC) approach\; a special case of Structural
  Equation Modelling (SEM). The results of this model will be discussed and
  contrasted with more traditional measurement techniques.
LOCATION:Seminar Room\, Department of Psychology\, Downing Site\, Cambridg
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