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Spinath, Birgit; Eckert, Christine; Steinmayr, Ricarda – Educational Research, 2014
Background: Education is a key variable for reaching individually and socially desired outcomes. Specifically, school grades are important admission criteria for higher education and job positions. Nowadays, in countries committed to equal opportunities, girls obtain better school grades than boys, but the reasons why girls outperform boys are not…
Descriptors: Gender Differences, Intelligence, Student Characteristics, Academic Achievement
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Furnham, Adrian; Stephenson, Rebecca – Psychology of Music, 2007
The aim of this study was to ascertain the nature of the interaction between the affective value of musical distraction, personality type and performance on the cognitive tasks of reading comprehension, free recall, mental arithmetic and verbal reasoning in children aged 11-12 years. It was hypothesized that the cognitive performance of extraverts…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Music, Personality, Correlation