|Question 14Verbal

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Studies conducted in individual Western societies have demonstrated associations between personality traits and five musical factors (mellowness, unpretentiousness, sophistication, intensity, and contemporariness) underlying individual preferences for styles of Western music. To investigate these associations across cultures, David M. Greenberg et al. collected music-preference assessments for Western genres and self-reported personality traits from participants in fifty-three countries across six continents. The study confirmed that the five-factor framework accurately captured participants' tastes in Western music, and, moreover, the study found similar correlations between patterns of these factors and of personality traits, suggesting that       
Which choice most logically completes the text?
the five-factor framework can likely be used to predict preferences for non-Western music styles based on personality traits even if the characteristics of those styles substantially differ from characteristics of Western music styles.
A
the strength of the relationship between personality traits and musical preferences varies less across cultures than researchers had previously assumed.
B
people with a relatively high degree of familiarity with Western music styles are likely to express stronger preferences for those styles than people with a relatively low degree of familiarity with those styles are.
C
across cultural contexts, people who share similar profiles of personality traits tend to prefer listening to similar types of music.
D