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The document summarizes the findings of several research studies on the effects of music on memory and personality: 1) One study found four music preference dimensions (Rock, Elite, Urban, Pop/Dance) that correlated with personality traits, such as Rock fans scoring lower on Conscientiousness. 2) Two other studies found music did not significantly affect short-term memory or physiological arousal levels during memory tasks. 3) One study found music had a negative effect on word recall but no effect on digit recall. 4) Another study found music only impaired memory encoding if played during the study phase. 5) A final study found experimental music significantly reduced word list recall, while other

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RRL Title: Adolescents' Music Preferences and Personality Characteristics

The document summarizes the findings of several research studies on the effects of music on memory and personality: 1) One study found four music preference dimensions (Rock, Elite, Urban, Pop/Dance) that correlated with personality traits, such as Rock fans scoring lower on Conscientiousness. 2) Two other studies found music did not significantly affect short-term memory or physiological arousal levels during memory tasks. 3) One study found music had a negative effect on word recall but no effect on digit recall. 4) Another study found music only impaired memory encoding if played during the study phase. 5) A final study found experimental music significantly reduced word list recall, while other

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Title: Adolescents’ Music Preferences and Personality Characteristics

Researcher/s: MARC J. M. H. DELSING, TOM F. M. TER BOGT, RUTGER C. M. E. ENGELS and WIM H. J.
MEEUS

Year: 2008

 Found out four interpretable music-preference dimensions were Rock, Elite, Urban and Pop or
Dance.
 they found out that a consistent pattern of contemporary associations between music
preferences and personality characteristics is existing.
 The results were: adolescents who enjoy Rock tend to be relatively low on Conscientiousness
and relatively high on Openness to Experience.
 Adolescents who enjoy Elite tend to be relatively high on Agreeableness, Conscientiousness and
Openness to Experience and relatively low on Emotional Stability.
 Adolescents who enjoy Urban tend to be relatively high on Extraversion and Agreeableness, as
are adolescents who enjoy Pop or Dance.
 Their study also revealed how adolescents show weaker preferences for Rock, Elite and
Pop/Dance music, but stronger preferences for urban music.
 They found out that as adolescents get older, they become less defiant and more adventurous
and autonomous in their musical taste.

Reference: http://devpsychopathologyru.nl/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/2008-Adolescents-music-
preferences-and-personality-characteristics.pdf

Title: The Effects of Music on Short-term Memory and Physiological Arousal

Researcher/s: Anne Gustavson, Kevin Hanneken, Anna Moldysz, Brad Simon

Year: 2013

 They found out that there is no significant difference in short-term memory scores among the
three testing conditions.
 There was additionally no significant difference in physiological arousal among the three testing
conditions concerning skin conductance, heart rate, or respiratory rate.
 But, every one of the three conditions demonstrated increased arousal when contrasted with
baseline physiological conditions obtained prior to the testing.
 These outcomes recommend that the viability of short-term memory in a verbal assignment is
not influenced by music or lyrics, and that the physiological arousal was brought on by the
memory task itself, not the nature of the auditory environment.

Reference: http://jass.neuro.wisc.edu/2013/01/602%207%20Final%20Paper.pdf

Title: The Effect of Music on Recall Ability of Words and Digits

Researcher/s: Claire Jameson


Year: April 2013

 The findings suggest that music has a negative effect on the recall of words but it has no
significant effect on the recall of digits.
 The participants recalled digits better than words, across all music conditions and there was no
significant difference in gender recall ability.

Reference: http://esource.dbs.ie/bitstream/handle/10788/1590/ba_jameson_c_2013.pdf?sequence=1

Title: The Effects of Music on Memory for a Word List

Researcher/s: Emily Konantz

Year: 2012

 The results of the experiment did not reflect the hypothesis in that it only mattered if there was
music playing during the study phase as it had a negative effect on encoding.
 Other reasons included small representation of the gross population and lack of control in the
test environment as well as lack of reliability and validity.

Reference: http://ir.lib.uwo.ca/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1072&context=hucjlm

Title: Effect of Different Types of Background Music on Students' Ability to Memorize and Recall word
Lists.

Researcher/s:

Year: January 12, 2004

 The results show that the null hypothesis must be retained for the tests conducted with the
songs "Dope King" (jungle) and "Air 'on the G string'" (Baroque).
 Although there were slight decreases in the average number of words retained with these two
songs, the decreases were not statistically significant.
 the research hypothesis is accepted at a 0.05 level of significance or at a 95% level of confidence
for the test conducted with the song "Pendulum Music" (experimental).
 Therefore, only the experimental music had a significant effect on the students' ability to
memorize and recall the word list.

Reference: http://cranepsych2.edublogs.org/files/2009/08/MusicIAHL.pdf

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