If This Is Your Favourite Song, There's A Chance You Could Be A Psychopath

Updated on April 24, 2019 at 4:32 PM

by the editors

Your favourite song could actually reveal a lot about you – specifically whether or not you’re a psychopath. Check the video and listen to the songs to determine whether or not you and Hannibal Lecter would get along.

If This Is Your Favourite Song, There's A Chance You Could Be A Psychopath

What kind of music are you into? Metal? Pop? Rap? After reading the results of this study, you may start to put some things into question.

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Researchers are New York University performed a study of nearly 200 students to determine where each of them fell on the psychopathic scale. They then cross referenced that with their taste in music. With those two results, the researchers were able to determine the most popular songs among psychopaths... and there were two that stuck out.

The playlist of a psychopath

Eminem’s big single from the 8 Mile soundtrack Lose Yourself and Blackstreet’s No Diggity were by far the two songs more correlated with psychopathic profiles. On the other hand, if you find yourself more of a fan of the classic My Sharona by The Knack or banger Titanium by David Guetta, congratulations – you couldn’t be further from a psychopath!

There you have it: next time you’re hanging out with your mate that loves Eminem, remember to watch your back.