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.
mozart
A data frame with 38 rows and 6 variables:
short name of each study
sample size of each study
observed effect size (Cohen d). Positive values correspond to higher mean performance in the group hearing the Mozart sonata
standard error of observed effect size
dichotomous moderator variable: Was the study unpublished?
dichotomous moderator variable: Was the study conducted in the lab of authors Rauscher or Rideout?
Pietschnig, J., Voracek, M., & Formann, A. K. (2010). Mozart effect-Shmozart effect: A meta-analysis. Intelligence, 38, 314-323.