Comments on: Link between Peoples Personalities and their choice of Music

By: kyle

kyle — Mon, 04 May 2009 22:45:29 +0000

Nice rebuttle but on the second hand note as yto your reply, you say you enjoy all types of music but– AS long as it’s good. Who has the say so as to whether music is good or not so good? so maybe your personality is different standing to as which music you find to be tasteful or fulfulling. Maybe you should give this debate another shot.

By: Cappucino

Cappucino — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 13:53:20 +0000

A soft spot eh? lol thats so cute. Actually I took abnormal psyche because I’m very interested in psychology. But whether I’m a narcissistic or histrionic can only be diagnosed by a professional however, I do agree with what you may think as a common reaction. I apologize if I offended you in any way, I guess I’m too pedantic and want to make things precisely as the it is described academically. So if anything, I’m OCD. lol

By: Karlosism

Karlosism — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 22:39:34 +0000

Cappuccino, I guess in the clinical world aka the real world it’s very difficult to label a PURE narcissistic and a PURE histrionic. Everything is always a mixture of things. In reality, people carry both traits. I mean if you want to get technical of course there is a difference but the over all point is this: BOTH seek attention to fulfill their blunted self esteem. I think I hit a soft spot in you. This is a common reaction because most individuals have no insight into their personality deficits and when insight is gained their is a clash between the id, ego, and superego until it boils over.

By: Cappucino

Cappucino — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 20:47:19 +0000

Hey IncaPie, you stated a very good point. I’m glad you mentioned it. When I referred to phenotype as a physical attribute I wasn’t necessarily focusing on how a person “looks” nor was I concerned about their race. I was merely trying to say that some people are physically more capable of dancing than others regardless of racial background or color. When I stated that “I can dance” I didn’t intend that I can dance simply because I have latin blood. However, I think there are those who have an easier time with dancing merely because of their physical traits, like the ability to actually keep a beat or learn steps faster. But no I have no sources to back it up and I think I might have misunderstood the actual meaning of phenotype. But, yes thank you for bringing that up.

By: Cappucino

Cappucino — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 20:34:51 +0000

Karloism I apologize for misreading your blog. I reread your blog and I realized that you stated that “salsa feeds those two personality types”. Okay, perhaps you weren’t being technical. Sorry, my bad. It’s just interesting that you called them personality “types”. Anyway, I’m sticking to my argument that histrionic personality disorder and narcissistic personality disorder are two completely different PD’s unless there is comorbidity between the two which in most cases histrionic personality disorder has a higher comorbidity with borderline personality disorder. Oh and to add, I’m not a Scientologist nor am I a big fan of Tom Cruise lol.

Histrionic Personality Disorder are people who are self centered in a way that they dress flamboyantly usually in a very provocative way. They want to be the main focus of the crowd.

Narcissist’s think highly of themselves and are very egocentric and are only focused on what “they” think is important.

Narcissists and Histrionics alienate others and both seek attention but in a completely different way. What you stated in your blog above only refers to people with histrionic personality disorders.

By: Arkantos

Arkantos — Sun, 14 Sep 2008 01:16:21 +0000

If somebody thinks you shouldn’t take salsa classes because you’re an advanced dancer, I think he/she has a serious complex of “know-it-all” and lack of humility.

Try to be the best, but never believe it, that’s the secret.

I seriously got angry when some dude look down on a beginner girl.

By: IncaPie

IncaPie — Sun, 14 Sep 2008 00:24:02 +0000

Cappucino, I am curious as to why you think your ability to dance is somehow determined biologically, spefically by your looks (as you say, “Phenotype”). Maybe you could cite some recent sources on that. I’m pretty sure modern sciences (post-eugenics) agree that race (if that’s what you’re implying) is a social construction (i.e. not biological). Your ability to dance may be culturally influenced, but not biologically or “phenotypically” determined.

By: Karlosism

Karlosism — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 20:39:32 +0000

Cappuccino, both histrionic and narcissistic personality disorders are found under the same family of personality disorders. One thing is to say that a person has a disorder vs. a trait. I never implied that people who salsa dance have “disorders” only that they had traits and parts of both narcissistic and histrionic. We all have components of each type..when those traits disrupt your function in life it is when they become disorders and require therapy and possibly medication… I didn’t want to be so technical when i was trying to set my point only highlight an observation that is common and not an absolute. This “crap” is actually a well studied field and it is believed by many in academia for decades as legit. Unless, you are a member of Scientology and a big fan of L. Ron Hubbard and Tom Cruise. If interested in learning more I would read this: http://www.emedicine.com/med/TOPIC3472.HTM

By: Gerrit Lemmens

Gerrit Lemmens — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 18:18:59 +0000

Speaking as a psychiatrist who has studied developmental and clinical psychology in some depth – treat this research with a healthy dose of scepticism. These surveys pick up trends, not causal relationships and are very dependant on the sample size being representative of the population at large – usually they are not: eg. a bunch of students at university! These kinds of things get published in the national media in the UK at any rate during slow news periods – like the recent summer holiday period – and ignored at other times. Still interesting subject to debate. Personally I like all forms of music as long as they are good with the exception of country and western. Much of it must be cultural determined as I found latin music difficult to listen to at first until I got a sense of its language/vocabulary.

By: Arkantos

Arkantos — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 04:47:00 +0000

I think a lot of people begin salsa to express sublimely some kind of joy energy that begged to get out and have fun.

In the beginning I had to follow the music, now there is no need of that, simply when I dance the music and me are one.

Salsa really changed my life in a very good way.

I agree with Briosa.