title: Demand characteristics of music affect performance on the Wonderlic Personnel Test Of Intelligence.
abstract: This study examined whether demand characteristics concerning music can change subjects' performance on the Wonderlic Personnel Test of intelligence. Participants (N= 60) were randomly assigned and informed either that Mozart's music typically enhances cognitive performance or diminishes it. They then completed the Wonderlic Personnel Test while listening to a Mozart piano sonata. The subjects with a positive set answered significantly more items correctly on the test (14%) than those with a negative set (p = .03). This result may hold implications for the study of the 'Mozart effect'.
authors: Department of Psychology, Bishop's University, Sherbrooke QC, Canada. lstandin@ubishops.ca
authors: Celissa C
authors: CC
authors: Verpaelst
authors: Lionel G
authors: LG
authors: Standing
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001288:Attention; D003469:Culture; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007361:Intelligence Tests / Q000592:standards*; D008297:Male; D009146:Music; D011594:Psychometrics; D012718:Set, Psychology; D013404:Suggestion