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    SCIENCE & NATURE BRIEFS

    Apr 24, 2022 1 minute

    OPEN-MINDED LISTENERS

    ecent Australian and US research suggests people who are frequent podcast listeners are on average more open, intellectually curious and non-neurotic than non-listeners. The study, published, surveyed more than 300 participants on their podcast listening habits and compared them with their personality traits and reasoning for listening. The researchers found that people who were higher in openness to experience and had a desire to obtain new knowledge were likely to have listened to a podcast. It also confirmed that those who listen to podcasts have stronger informational needs.

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