 So the more engaged you are musically, the higher your chances of getting an earworm. Now, listener Ryota wondered if your own personality could also affect how likely earworms are to bury in and make themselves at home. People who score higher in obsessive-compulsive traits, though they may not be clinically diagnosed with obsessive-compulsive disorder, these people also tend to report more frequent earworms and they also tend to be annoyed or disturbed by their earworms as well.