These are fresh and just came out of the oven… :
The effect of women tears and music on all kinds of arousal…….and btw, check out the Sample of Chills-Inducing Musical Excerpts (in supporting documents)….no Cream and Slayer there…...

They used the local chamber orchestra members as participants, eh? IMO not a very random sample of people . Anyway no Bach too, but Pink Floyd.

hobglobin on Tue Jan 4 20:56:03 2011 said:

so this is what might have given me stomach pain after drinking tequila


casey lynch, for slayer the sampling was biased

well, they had exclusion criteria so naturally, the sampling ended up biased and I suspect that the investigators were the ones who chose the genre and the participants came up with instrumental music that they know or are familiar with...i.e. the selection has more pop classics than some heavy weird ones...and Vicious Delicious' Infected Mushroom really gave me the chills (the band name, album cover and the music)....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hgtDHqWmSnc

wow, this is a good one casey.

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casandra on Tue Jan 11 04:18:40 2011 said:

Though they wrote "There were no restrictions to the genre of music that could be provided. This was done to increase the ecological validity of our findings and to ensure that any observed effects were not due to a specific genre of music. We obtained music from various genres, including classical, folk, jazz, electronica, rock, punk, techno, and tango ".
Anyway if the participants are from a classical music subculture, it's biased surely . And that strange band, I guess it's gebirgsz's favourite band...

hobglobin on Tue Jan 11 16:34:31 2011 said:

but the recruitment was thru ads (not an active aggressive one) and I don't think that only the classical music listeners would respond (or perhaps we have better musical taste here in Montreal....)...and it's more like Ila's music I think...and I like it too.......

casandra on Tue Jan 11 17:15:20 2011 said:

I found it strange, and won't hear it voluntarily or for pleasure... (though I heard a different version, the track from above is not allowed here)
I guess then they're students, and as they knew that the professor (they're later supervised and examined by him) is a classic music fan, most chose a classic track, to avoid shocking the professor. Very bad for the results of course...

hobglobin on Tue Jan 11 17:20:39 2011 said:

students? unless they're from the conservatoire of music, I doubt that their preferred tracks would be classical music...and which professors were they impressing with their musical selections? This study was done I think mainly at the neurological institute......