(C) Daily Kos This story was originally published by Daily Kos and is unaltered. . . . . . . . . . . Top Comments: Dancer Personality Edition [1] ['This Content Is Not Subject To Review Daily Kos Staff Prior To Publication.'] Date: 2024-06-06 Here at Top Comments we strive to nourish community by rounding up some of the site's best, funniest, most mojo'd & most informative commentary, and we depend on your help!! If you see a comment by another Kossack that deserves wider recognition, please send it either to topcomments at gmail or to the Top Comments group mailbox by 9:30pm Eastern. Please please please include a few words about why you sent it in as well as your user name (even if you think we know it already :-)), so we can credit you with the find! Source. "Tell me if you dance and I will tell you who you are!" A study led by researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics (MPIEA) in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, has shown that both amateur and professional dancers are less neurotic than people who do not dance. They are also more agreeable, more open, and more extraverted. Researchers used survey results for 5,435 people in Sweden and 574 people in Germany with regard to their “Big Five” personality traits: openness, conscientiousness, extraversion, agreeableness, and neuroticism. "In general, both dancers and singers show a high degree of extraversion in their personality—which may be due to the fact that their means of expression when dancing and singing is their body—and this is a very socially exposed situation, more than if you express through an instrument, for example. However, more in-depth investigations are needed to explore this further," says lead author Julia F. Christensen of the MPIEA. Well, it seems to me that introverts might dance alone in their homes, but are shy about dancing in public. Is a person who doesn’t dance in public still a dancer? (I would call myself an introvert, but I have been known to dance in public.) There was also some evidence of personality differences between dancers of different styles. Swing dancers, for example, seemed to be even less neurotic than Latin and Standard dancers. However, this needs to be confirmed with larger samples of dancers. In the future, the researchers hope to extend their research into dancers' personalities to many other cultures and dance styles. Call me when they survey contradancers. Comments are below the fold. Top Comments (June 6, 2024): No nominations or highlights tonight. Top Mojo (June 5, 2024): Top Mojo is courtesy of mik! Click here for more on how Top Mojo works. Top Photos (June 5, 2024): Thanks to jotter (RIP) for creating it and elfling for restoring it! [END] --- [1] Url: https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2024/6/6/2245254/-Top-Comments-Dancer-Personality-Edition?pm_campaign=front_page&pm_source=more_community&pm_medium=web Published and (C) by Daily Kos Content appears here under this condition or license: Site content may be used for any purpose without permission unless otherwise specified. via Magical.Fish Gopher News Feeds: gopher://magical.fish/1/feeds/news/dailykos/