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mozart: Example data for a meta-analysis of standardized mean differences: Mozart effect

Description

A dataset consisting of 38 empirical studies used in the meta-analysis of Pietschnig, Voracek, and Formann (2010) on the Mozart effect. Each study compared the spatial task performance of participants after hearing the first movement "allegro con spirito" of the Mozart sonata for two pianos in D major (KV 448) with the spatial task performance of participants who were exposed to a non-musical stimulus or no stimulus at all.

Usage

mozart

Arguments

Format

A data frame with 38 rows and 6 variables:

study_name

short name of each study

n

sample size of each study

d

observed effect size (Cohen d). Positive values correspond to higher mean performance in the group hearing the Mozart sonata

se

standard error of observed effect size

unpublished

dichotomous moderator variable: Was the study unpublished?

rr_lab

dichotomous moderator variable: Was the study conducted in the lab of authors Rauscher or Rideout?

References

Pietschnig, J., Voracek, M., & Formann, A. K. (2010). Mozart effect-Shmozart effect: A meta-analysis. Intelligence, 38, 314-323.