I wasn't pointing out any deficiency in the method by sending it to the list. I was just noting a new direction in the Mozart effect research. This one is not cognitive but has to do with the rate of weight gain in preterm infants. Interestingly, they reference the earlier work in their Intro but it has, as far as I can tell, no real relevance to this totally unrelated use of Mozart's oeuvre. This particular research is not Correlational. They randomly assigned infants to exposure levels of music as a way of testing a theoretically-informed hypothesis (is that redundant?) concerning the mechanism of the weight gain. They hypothesize that increased metabolic efficiency could cause the weight gain so they "conducted this study to test the hypothesis that music by Mozart reduces resting energy expenditure (REE) in growing healthy preterm infants".
Rick Dr. Rick Froman, Chair Division of Humanities and Social Sciences Professor of Psychology Box 3055 John Brown University 2000 W. University Siloam Springs, AR 72761 rfro...@jbu.edu (479)524-7295 http://tinyurl.com/DrFroman -----Original Message----- From: Lilienfeld, Scott O [mailto:slil...@emory.edu] Sent: Tuesday, December 08, 2009 10:40 AM To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS) Subject: RE: [tips] A new Mozart effect... Actually, Pediatrics is a very prestigious medical journal...I haven't yet read the article, so don't know how depressing that is..... Scott O. Lilienfeld, Ph.D. Professor Editor, Scientific Review of Mental Health Practice Department of Psychology, Room 473 Psychology and Interdisciplinary Sciences (PAIS) Emory University 36 Eagle Row Atlanta, Georgia 30322 slil...@emory.edu (404) 727-1125 Psychology Today Blog: http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/the-skeptical-psychologist 50 Great Myths of Popular Psychology: http://www.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-140513111X.html Scientific American Mind: Facts and Fictions in Mental Health Column: http://www.scientificamerican.com/sciammind/ The Master in the Art of Living makes little distinction between his work and his play, his labor and his leisure, his mind and his body, his education and his recreation, his love and his intellectual passions. He hardly knows which is which. He simply pursues his vision of excellence in whatever he does, leaving others to decide whether he is working or playing. To him - he is always doing both. - Zen Buddhist text (slightly modified) -----Original Message----- From: tay...@sandiego.edu [mailto:tay...@sandiego.edu] Sent: Tuesday, December 08, 2009 11:03 AM To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS) Subject: Re: [tips] A new Mozart effect... Oh good god, who are the editors of this "professional" journal? Did any of these folks ever take a research methods course? WTH????? :( :( :( :( :( :( :( Annette Annette Kujawski Taylor, Ph.D. Professor of Psychology University of San Diego 5998 Alcala Park San Diego, CA 92110 619-260-4006 tay...@sandiego.edu ---- Original message ---- >Date: Mon, 7 Dec 2009 23:33:42 -0600 >From: Rick Froman <rfro...@jbu.edu> >Subject: [tips] A new Mozart effect... >To: "Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS)" <tips@acsun.frostburg.edu> > >...on weight of pre-term infants. The abstract is here: > >http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/cgi/content/abstract/peds.2009-0990v1?papetoc > >and the pdf of the article is here: > >http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/cgi/reprint/peds.2009-0990v1 > > >Rick > >Dr. Rick Froman, Chair >Division of Humanities and Social Sciences >John Brown University >Siloam Springs, AR 72761 >rfro...@jbu.edu >________________________________________ > >--- >To make changes to your subscription contact: > >Bill Southerly (bsouthe...@frostburg.edu) --- To make changes to your subscription contact: Bill Southerly (bsouthe...@frostburg.edu) This e-mail message (including any attachments) is for the sole use of the intended recipient(s) and may contain confidential and privileged information. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution or copying of this message (including any attachments) is strictly prohibited. If you have received this message in error, please contact the sender by reply e-mail message and destroy all copies of the original message (including attachments). --- To make changes to your subscription contact: Bill Southerly (bsouthe...@frostburg.edu) --- To make changes to your subscription contact: Bill Southerly (bsouthe...@frostburg.edu)
