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In Teen Music Choices, Anxiety Rules

Scientific American - Posted: March 16th, 2010, 1:00am EDT

p In 2009, Miley Cyrus reportedly made an astonishing 25 million dollars. Most of that money came from album sales, which were reported to be slightly over 4 million during that year. Four millionhellip;Four million?!nbsp; Have you heard Miley Cyrus sing? Are there really four million kids out there willing to spend their hard-earned babysitting money on a Miley Cyrus album because they deeply love listening to her sing? Well, according to the findings of a study recently published in Neuroimage, selling four million albums does not translate to having four million people like your music. The study reports that there is good reason to believe that a lot of those purchases were made out of fear -- a fear well known to adolescents all over America: terror of social rejection./p a href=http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=in-teen-music-choices-fear-rules[More]/a

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