Saturday, March 24, 2007
Hey, kids: Bang your head!
Apparently, all the time I spent listening to Armored Saint, Black 'N' Blue, and Y&T (pictured above) was a good thing.
According to a recent study by psychologists at the University of Warwick (UK), teenagers who listen to heavy metal music to cope with the pressures associated with adolescence are more intelligent.
The results of a study of more than 1,000 of the brightest 5 percent of young people says that “far from being a sign of delinquency and poor academic ability, many adolescent ‘metalheads’ are extremely bright and often use the music to help them deal with the stresses and strains of being gifted social outsiders."
"There is a perception of gifted and talented students as being into classical music and spending a lot of time reading,” psychologist Stuart Cadwallader told a British Psychological Society conference this week. “I think that is an inaccurate stereotype. There is literature that links heavy metal to poor academic performance and delinquency but we found a large group that contradicts that.”
# posted by Joltin' Django @ Saturday, March 24, 2007 
