The current study looked at the distracting effects of `pop music' on introverts' and extraverts' performance on various cognitive tasks. It was predicted that there would be a main effect for music and an interaction effect with introverts performing less well in the presence of music than extraver
The effect of background music and noise on the cognitive test performance of introverts and extraverts
โ Scribed by Stacey Dobbs; Adrian Furnham; Alastair McClelland
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 2011
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 132 KB
- Volume
- 25
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0888-4080
- DOI
- 10.1002/acp.1692
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