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[substitute]

The "Mozart Effect", which has been a cultural phenomenon since the 1990s, is horseshit. It followed the same path as every urban legend, but the original study was never replicated, nor was the study about babies. The meta-study looks interesting, as does the researcherSTANFORD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF BUSINESS - Scientists have discredited claims that

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[nickjb]

my idea was the "Stockhausen Effect" but it was cooly recieved....

[leolo]

I think I'm going to test the Metallica Effect on my children.

[hersheyjumper]

Did that with my youngest. Not in the interest of science though. Black album came out while I was pregnant and I played the hell out of it. (obsessive with music) When she was a baby, I could put the album on- LOUD and she would settle righn down, snuggle up to me and sleep. Worked like a charm. She's 14 and still carries the it in her little portable cd "to go" case.

Oh, and she is pretty well adjusted for her age so I really don't buy the Mozart crap either.

[hersheyjumper]

That was not an insult to Mozart (whom I like) by the way.

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..which made me think immediately of the Stockholm Syndrome. Maybe too much Mozart causes a Salzburg syndrome!