Listening to music helps you work, sometimes
Iron Maiden? Salt N Pepa? Your personality tells you a lot about how music will help your work life. (Wes Hicks/Unsplash/)Manuel F. Gonzalez is a PhD candidate in Industrial-Organizational Psychology at Baruch College, CUNY. John R. Aiello is a professor of Psychology at Rutgers University. This story originally featured on The Conversation.Do you like to listen to music when you work?Pose this question at a party, and you’ll probably get some polarizing responses. Some will say they love it, claiming that it improves their performance; others will say they find it distracting and cannot work effectively with music playing in the background.As music enthusiasts and psychologists, we wanted to understand when it helps and when it hurts to listen to music while performing tasks.Interestingly enough, our research has found that both of these perspectives can be true. It just depends on what sort of work you’re doing.Developing a broader frameworkResearchers...