Music Hits Men Hardest at 16 and Women at 19, Study Shows

Music Hits Men Hardest at 16 and Women at 19, Study Shows

Source: Liubomyr Vorona / Getty Ever notice that songs from your teen years hit harder than anything new? A new study from Finland reveals that gender helps determine when those lifelong musical bonds form. Researchers from the University of Jyväskylä found that men tend to form their strongest emotional connections to music around age 16, while for women, the peak arrives closer to 19. The study, which surveyed nearly 2,000 people across 84 cou…