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Psychologists have looked at the relation between music and people's attitudes and intelligence many times. They have all been correlational studies, so there is no definitive proof that one is the sole effect on the other. All they really show is that musical preferences tend to be shared among groups of people with similar traits.
Because of confusion between what is correlational data and what is cause and effect data, people have misconstrued ideas about the different studies findings, like saying listening to rap makes you stupid, listening to heavy metal makes you homicidal, etc.
It all ends up a big shouting match with everyone in a huff about what music type is better, yada, yada, yada.
I run on a system of if I don't like it, I don't listen to it. If you like it, you can listen to it all you want, but I would appreciate it if you used headphones.
For those that want to know:
Cause and Effect: A high calorie diet and sedentary lifestyle leads to health problems, like obesity, diabetes, joint problems, heart disease, stroke and cancer.
Correlation: McDonald's burgers have a high calorie content and many people who eat these burgers also live sedentary lifestyles with multiple health problems.
Where people get the two mixed up: McDonald's burgers cause cancer.
