
The Hard Truth About Psychology, Learning New Skills, & Making Mistakes with Dr. Art Markman & Dr. Bob Duke
The Science of Success
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Does Listening to Mozart Make Us Smarter?
In 1997, psychologists in California had people listen to Mozart and then take a spatial reasoning test. And the people who listened to Mozart got higher scores than those who didn't. There's no evidence that listening to Mozart does anything that doing a lot of other things wouldn't do. People actually are responding to ways to heighten arousal and attention.
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