title: Music and academic performance.
abstract: In a previous study we demonstrated that listening to a pleasant music while performing an academic test helped students to overcome stress, to devote more time to more stressful and more complicated task and the grades were higher. Yet, there remained ambiguities as for the causes of the higher test performance of these students: do they perform better because they hear music during their examinations, or would they perform better anyway because they are more gifted/motivated? This motivated the current study as a preliminary step toward that general question: Do students who like/perform music have better grades than the others? Our results confirmed this hypothesis: students studying music have better grades in all subjects.
authors: De Rochebelle School (C.S.D.D), Quebec, Canada. Electronic address: arnaud.cabanac@csdecou.qc.ca.
authors: Arnaud Cabanac
authors: Leonid
authors: L
authors: Perlovsky
authors: Marie-Claude
authors: MC
authors: Bonniot-Cabanac
authors: Michel
authors: M
authors: Cabanac
mesh_terms: D000124:Achievement; D000293:Adolescent; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009146:Music; D013334:Students; D014836:Volition
keywords: Academic achievement; Cognitive dissonance; Music; Pleasure; ‘Mozart effect’