Does Rock Music Make People Racist? These Researchers Think So

Today in the department of WTF, we have this: A brand new study from researchers in the University of Minnesota claims that listening to even just a couple of minutes of rock music like Bruce Springsteen or the White Stripes causes white individuals to favor their own race towards the detriment of others.
Meanwhile, listening to Top 40 pop brought on white subjects to treat all races equally, the study found.
Researchers produced a test in which white students had been asked to allocate money in between various student groups. Prior to the allocation beats by dr dre, the test subjects were isolated in a space with different kinds of music playing. Following about seven minutes of quiet listening -- which the students thought was not part of the experiment -- they were asked how to divide tuition money between four student groups: the Centres of African American Research, Rural and Agricultural Studies beats headphones, Arab American Studies, and Latino American Studies.
Listening to pop music like Akon and Fergie brought on the white test subjects to divide the money about equally Dr Dre Beats, with one-quarter going to every group. But listening to rock like the White Stripes led to the students giving the white ethnic group 35 percent of the funds, and dividing the rest equally amongst the other groups Dre Beats, researchers stated.
'Rock music is generally related to white Americans, so we think it cues white listeners to consider their positive association with their very own in-group monster beats," Heather LaMarre, an assistant professor of journalism and mass communication at the University of Minnesota beats by dre studio, told British tabloid the Every day Mail.
Listening to white power music with racist lyrics like Skrewdriver and Bound For Glory produced an even stronger race-bias in the participants, with test subjects giving 40 percent of the cash towards the white group. They then divided the rest of the cash unevenly between other races dr dre headphones, with the Arab-American group obtaining the smallest portion.
The researchers say this proves that the cultural associations of music -- even apart from its lyrics -- have a powerful impact on listeners. "'It shows that it is not just the lyrics that matter. Good, old-fashioned rock 'n' roll -- with no incendiary or hateful lyrics at all -- was enough of a cue to increase the percentage of money allocated for the white-American group beats pro," associate professor Silvia Knobloch-Westerwick told the newspaper. "[Music] has the power to reinforce our positive biases toward our personal group, and occasionally unfavorable biases toward others."
That's what the researchers say monster headphones, anyway. What do you believe?